1 Kings 1:37

As the LORD hath been with my lord the king, even so be he with Solomon, and make his throne greater than the throne of my lord king David.

Ver. 37. And make his throne greater.] God heard this prayer, and said Amen to it, set his fiat to it: for Solomon's reign, accomplished with a civil and religious happiness, represented the triumphant Church in heaven: as David's reign had been a figure of the Church militant upon earth.