New Covenant succession

Reading I Kings 12 this am.

It is staggering to see how much apostasy took place in the OT. How could the most eminently wise King Solomon have such a foolish son-Rehoboam? Yet he failed to secure proper covenant succession and so many great men in the older covenant did fail in this way.

Adam with Cain

Noah with Ham

Abraham had Ishmael.

Isaac had Esau

Jacob had several sons that were downright wicked.

David's failure as a father is infamous.

And now Solomon is perpetuating the iniquities of the fathers from generation to generation.

But a part of the blessing in the New Covenant is a reversal of this trend..

I believe this is a part of what Jer 31:33,34 says.