There are plenty of lessons. Be careful what, and whom, you love. Good
beginnings do not guarantee good endings. Heed the warnings of God while
there is time; if you don’t, you will eventually become so hardened that even his
most dire threats will leave you unmoved. At the canonical level, even the most
blessed, protected, and endowed dynasty, chosen from within the Lord’s chosen
people, is announcing its end: it will fall apart. Oh, how we need a Savior, a king
from heaven!

D.A. Carson
For the Love of God, Volume I
October 8th devotion, commentary on I Kings 11