This chapter has some important information regarding the two new kings, Rehoboam and Jeroboam, and the historical divide of Israel and Judah. There’s too much to cover it all, so we’ll only look at a portion. “And the king [Rehoboam] answered the people harshly, and forsaking the counsel that the old men had given him,…
Month: November 2020
1 Kings 11
This chapter contains many details regarding Solomon’s household, the future of Israel, and the enemies that God raised up against Solomon. “Now King Solomon loved many foreign women… from the nations concerning which the Lord had said to the people of Israel, ‘You shall not enter into marriage with them, neither shall they with you,…
1 Kings 4
This chapter contains more details about Solomon’s officers, wealth, and household. “Solomon’s provision for one day was thirty cors of fine flour and sixty cors of meal, ten fat oxen, and twenty pasture-fed cattle, a hundred sheep, besides deer, gazelles, roebucks, and fattened fowl. Solomon also had 40,000 stalls of horses for his chariots, and…
2 Chronicles 9
This chapter parallels 1 Ki 10, detailing a visit from the queen of Sheba and the extent of Solomon’s wealth. “Thus King Solomon excelled all the kings of the earth in riches and in wisdom. And all the kings of the earth sought the presence of Solomon to hear his wisdom, which God had put…
1 Kings 10
This chapter describes the Queen of Sheba visiting Solomon, and the extent of Solomon’s wealth. “And [the Queen of Sheba] said to the king, ‘The report was true that I heard in my own land of your words and of your wisdom, but I did not believe the reports until I came and my own…
2 Chronicles 8
This chapter describes many other works of Solomon in building up Israel and its fortifications, plus some details about his people management. “Solomon brought Pharaoh’s daughter up from the city of David to the house that he had built for her, for he said, ‘My wife shall not live in the house of David king…
1 Kings 9
This chapter contains another account of God’s covenant with Solomon, and some details regarding Solomon’s additional acts as king. “At the end of twenty years, in which Solomon had built the two houses, the house of the Lord and the king’s house, and Hiram king of Tyre had supplied Solomon with cedar and cypress timber…
2 Chronicles 7
This chapter concludes Solomon’s temple dedication with many sacrifices (complete with fire from heaven), and much feasting for all of Israel. “Then the Lord appeared to Solomon in the night and said to him: ‘I have heard your prayer and have chosen this place for myself as a house of sacrifice. When I shut up…
2 Chronicles 6
This chapter contains another account of Solomon’s temple dedication prayer. “If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence or blight or mildew or locust… if their enemies besiege them… whatever plague, whatever sickness there is, whatever prayer, whatever plea is made by any man or by all your people Israel, each knowing…
1 Kings 8
This chapter describes the ark being brought to the temple, Solomon blessing the Lord, his prayer of dedication for the temple, a benediction, and more. “Blessed be the Lord… Not one word has failed of all his good promise, which he spoke by Moses his servant. The Lord our God be with us, as he…