Then Solomon sat on the throne of the LORD as king instead of David his father, and prospered; and all Israel obeyed him.
Solomon sat on the throne of the Lord. As king of Israel, he was the Lord's vicegerent. When David was appointed successor to Saul, he was employed merely as Yahweh's deputy (2 Samuel 5:2). His commission runs in the style of that of an inferior officer. The people whom he was to rule were not David's; they were still God's. Even when the throne was made hereditary in the house of David, Yahweh exercised his right of election by preferring Solomon to all his brethren, so that when Solomon was anointed theocratic king in Israel, it was justly said of him, that he 'sat on the throne of the Lord' (Jamieson's 'Sacred History,' 1:, p. 314).