(3) And Solomon loved the LORD, walking in the statutes of David his father: only he sacrificed and burnt incense in high places.
This is a beautiful, but short account of Solomon. He loved the Lord. A volume could not say more. Reader! do not forget that the love of any man towards the Lord is an evidence of the Lord's love to him; for the apostle saith, we love God because he first loved us. And as the Lord sent by Nathan on the birth of Solomon, and called his name Jedediah, which signifies beloved of the Lord; this therefore is abundantly plain. 2 Samuel 12:25.