STORY OF KING SOLOMON

STORY OF KING SOLOMON

King Solomon was the wisest man who ever lived and also one of the most foolish. God gifted him with unsurpassed wisdom, which Solomon squandered by disobeying God's commandments.

 Solomon was the second son of King David and Bathsheba. His name means "peaceable." Even as a baby, Solomon was loved by God.

 A conspiracy by Adonijah, Solomon's half-brother, tried to rob Solomon of the throne. Solomon killed Adonijah and Joab, David's general, to take the kingship.

 God appeared to Solomon in a dream and promised him anything he asked. Solomon chose understanding and discernment. God was so pleased with the request that he granted it, along with great riches and power

 Solomon's downfall began when he married the daughter of the Egyptian Pharaoh to seal a political alliance. He could not control his lust. Among Solomon's 700 wives and 300 concubines were many foreigners, which angered God. The inevitable happened: They lured King Solomon away from Yahweh into worship of false gods and idols.

 Over his 40-year reign, Solomon did many great things, but he succumbed to the temptations of lesser men. The peace a united Israel enjoyed, the massive building projects he headed, and the successful commerce he developed became meaningless when Solomon stopped pursuing God.

 Solomon built the first temple on Mount Moriah in Jerusalem, a seven-year task that became one of the wonders of the ancient world. He also built a majestic palace, gardens, roads, and government buildings. He accumulated thousands of horses and chariots. After securing peace with his neighbors, he built up trade and became the wealthiest king of his time.

 King Solomon possessed great wisdom, granted to him by God. He was a prolific writer, poet, and scientist. His skills in architecture and management turned Israel into the showplace of the middle East. As a diplomat, he made treaties and alliances that brought peace to his kingdom.

 to satisfy his curious mind, Solomon turned to worldly pleasures instead of the pursuit of God. He collected all sorts of treasures and surrounded himself with luxury. In the case of non-Jewish wives and concubines, he let lust rule his heart instead of obedience to God. Solomon taxed his subjects heavily, conscripted them into his army and into slave-like labor for his building projects.

 King Solomon's sins speak loudly to us in our materialistic culture. When we worship possessions and fame over God, we are headed for a fall. When Christians marry an unbeliever, they can also expect trouble. God is our first love. We should let nothing come before him.

THE SINS OF SOLOMON

1 Kings 11

King Solomon, however, loved many foreign women besides Pharaoh’s daughter—Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians and Hittites. 2 They were from nations about which the Lord had told the Israelites, “You must not intermarry with them, because they will surely turn your hearts after their gods.” Nevertheless, Solomon held fast to them in love. 3 He had seven hundred wives of royal birth and three hundred concubines, and his wives led him astray. 4 As Solomon grew old, his wives turned his heart after other gods, and his heart was not fully devoted to the Lord his God, as the heart of David his father had been. 5 He followed Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and Molek the detestable god of the Ammonites. 6 So Solomon did evilin the eyes of the Lord; he did not follow the Lord completely, as David his father had done.

On a hill east of Jerusalem, Solomon built a high place for Chemoshthe detestable god of Moab, and for Molek the detestable god of the Ammonites. 8 He did the same for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and offered sacrifices to their gods.

The Lord became angry with Solomon because his heart had turned away from the Lord, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice.10 Although he had forbidden Solomon to follow other gods, Solomon did not keep the Lord’s command. 11 So the Lord said to Solomon, “Since this is your attitude and you have not kept my covenant and my decrees, which I commanded you, I will most certainly tear the kingdom away from you and give it to one of your subordinates.12 Nevertheless, for the sake of David your father, I will not do it during your lifetime. I will tear it out of the hand of your son. 13 Yet I will not tear the whole kingdom from him, but will give him one tribefor the sake of David my servant and for the sake of Jerusalem, which I have chosen.”

References

 2 Samuel 12:24 - 1 Kings 11:43; 1 Chronicles 28, 29; 2 Chronicles 1-10; Nehemiah 13:26; Psalm 72; Matthew 6:29, 12:42.

 

  KING SOLOMON

  HIS FATHER :  DAVID

HIS MOTHER:  BATHSHEBA  

 

 

SOLOMON THE SON OF DAVID AND BATHSHEBA

 

 KING SOLOMON AND THE QUEEN OF SHEBA

 Solomon and the Queen of Sheba

  correspondence that passed between the Queen of Sheba and King Solomon

 God bestowed uponSolomon were the understanding of the speech of birds 
, and knowledge of every kind. He was the lord of men, genii and birds. One day when he was reviewing the birds heperceived that the lapwing was absent, and he asked why she

was absent, and threatened to punish her for not making her

appearance with the other birds. Very soon after he had spoken

the lapwing appeared, and she excused herself for her absence by saying that she had been looking upon a country that theking had never seen, and that she had seen Sâba, which was ruled over by a queen called “Bal ̊îs,  who was very rich, and

who sat upon a throne made of gold and silver and set with

precious stones, eighty cubits long, forty cubits broad, and

thirty cubits high. 

Solomon wrote the following letter to the Queen of Sheba:

“From the servant of God, Solomon, the son of David, unto

Bal ̊îs (

) Queen of Sheba  come and render yourselves unto me.”

Having perfumed this letter with musk and sealed it with his

wonderful seal, Solomon gave it to the lapwing and told the

bird to go and drop it in Sâba, and to turn aside afterwards and

wait for the Queen’s answer. The lapwing departed and

delivered the letter she flew into the Queen’sprivate apartment through the window, 

dropped the letter into the Queen’s bosoms she was

standing surrounded by her army. Having read the letter the

Queen called upon her nobles to advise her what to do

  the Queen decided to send gifts to Solomon, and she

despatched forthwith five hundred male and five hundred

female slaves, five hundred ingots of gold, a crown studded

with precious stones, and a large quantity of musk, amber,

spices, precious woods  The lapwing returned quickly to

Solomon and told him what had happened, and that an

embassy from the Queen bearing gifts was on its way. When

the men of Sâba arrived they were received by Solomon in a

large square surrounded by a wall, the bricks of which were

made of gold and silver. Solomon spoke slightingly of the

Queen’s gifts and sent the embassy back

 

 

 

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  Solomon, son of David, directed the building of a temple on Mount Moriah, Jerusalem.  It is known as either Solomon's Temple or the First Temple. It held the Ark of the Covenant and was a focus for God Almighty, Yahweh (or Jehovah, the LORD).  It and most of Jerusalem were burnt by the Babylonians when they attacked Jerusalem in 597 BCE. (2 Kings 25).

1 Kings 10New International Version (NIV)

The Queen of Sheba Visits Solomon

10 When the queen of Sheba heard about the fame of Solomon and his relationship to the Lord, she came to test Solomon with hard questions. ² Arriving at Jerusalem with a very great caravan—with camels carrying spices, large quantities of gold, and precious stones—she came to Solomon and talked with him about all that she had on her mind. ³ Solomon answered all her questions; nothing was too hard for the king to explain to her. ⁴ When the queen of Sheba saw all the wisdom of Solomon and the palace he had built, ⁵ the food on his table, the seating of his officials, the attending servants in their robes, his cupbearers, and the burnt offerings he made at^[a] the temple of the Lord, she was overwhelmed.

KING HIRAM OF TYRE

-First Temple of Solomon

 

 

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  HE REIGN OF KING SOLOMON

 

Solomon, the son of King David and Bathsheba, became

king of Judah and

Israel in the year 967 BCE at age twenty and reigned until his death in 928

BCE. While Solomons wisdom

is generally perceived as being focused on

his parables and poetry (IKgs.5:12)

  The rapid ex-pansion of Israels commerce, trade and industry during hisreign was due to a

number of reasons, foremost being the political. Either by treaties of friend-ship or subjugation

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David had extended the sphere of Israels 

influence so that by the time Solomon succeeded to the throne the nation possessed a vast potential for expanding trade andtheinflow of tribute.

Displaying politicaland administrative wisdom,

Solomon provedequal to taking full advantage

of the unparalleled opportunity for economic growth and development. Stillanother reason was the freedom fromarmed conflict during Solomon

's reign,a rare phenomenon in antiquity

 

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  IKings 10:22  For the king had at sea a navy of Tharshish with the navy of Hiram: once in three years came the navy of Tharshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.

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 Solomon's and Huram's (Hiram's) servants brought gold, silver, ivory
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THE KING HIRAM  AND QUEEN OF SHEBA SUPPLIED KING SOLOMON  SHIPLOAD OF GOLD SILVER AND IVORY ONVE RVERY 3 YEARS IN 30 YEARS...




LOCATION OF TARSHISH


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For the first time in Jewish history,international commercial ties were established

and developed to a very advanced degree. Roads were

built

to meet

the new needs of world

trade as well asa merchant fleet. Natural re

sources inmines and stonequarries were exploited and put to use. Foreign trade also

brought about a significant change in Israel

's domestic economy. Fromthattime onward

there emerged a professional merchant class e

ngaged not only innegotiating trade agreements with foreign states,but also in procuring foreign

goods for the home market and selling domestic pro

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ucts abroad. It has been

said that not until Solomon

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  Because King David was a warrior who had blood on his hands, Samuel, the prophet of God who anointed David king, told him that the construction of his Temple was to be completed by his successor, his son Solomon. The Temple was built adjacent to the palace atop Mount Moriah on the site where it is believed that Abraham offered his son to God. An artist depiction of Solomon's Temple is in the picture to the right. Unlike his father's reign of warlike expansion, Solomon's reign was peaceful bountiful. He had great political savvy and used a personal form of diplomacy: marriage. In order to seal alliances with surrounding kingdoms and others abroad, including Egypt, Solomon married the daughters of any and every ruler he met. It is said that he had over one hundred wives. Such a large royal family assured a long lasting dyansty, the longest ever to rule from Jerusalem

 

CIVIL WAR AFTER THE REIGN OF KING SOLOMON:

 Solomon's son inherited the throne, but rejected the advice of Solomon's counsellors, and treated the people harshly when they sent Jeroboam to negotiate for better treatment, hence the rebellion. Shemiah prophesied that Rehoboam should not fight Jeroboam.

 Jeroboam was an official in Solomon's government when Ahijah prophesied that he would rule ten tribes, promising an enduring dynasty if he would be faithful to God

 

 Instead, when he became king, he set up golden calves at Bethel and Dan, and appointed priests from all the tribes. The "man of God from Judah" prophesied that King Josiah would one day bring an end to pagan worship, and Ahijah prophesied an imminent end to Jeroboam's line.

 

Solomon’s Adversaries

  1 Kings 11

14 Then the Lord raised up against Solomon an adversary, Hadad the Edomite, from the royal line of Edom. 15 Earlier when David was fighting with Edom, Joab the commander of the army, who had gone up to bury the dead, had struck down all the men in Edom. 16 Joab and all the Israelites stayed there for six months, until they had destroyed all the men in Edom. 17 But Hadad, still only a boy, fled to Egypt with some Edomite officials who had served his father. 18 They set out from Midian and went to Paran. Then taking people from Paran with them, they went to Egypt, to Pharaoh king of Egypt, who gave Hadad a house and land and provided him with food.

 19 Pharaoh was so pleased with Hadad that he gave him a sister of his own wife, Queen Tahpenes, in marriage. 20 The sister of Tahpenes bore him a son named Genubath, whom Tahpenes brought up in the royal palace. There Genubath lived with Pharaoh’s own children.

21 While he was in Egypt, Hadad heard that David rested with his ancestors and that Joab the commander of the army was also dead. Then Hadad said to Pharaoh, “Let me go, that I may return to my own country.”

22 “What have you lacked here that you want to go back to your own country?” Pharaoh asked.

“Nothing,” Hadad replied, “but do let me go!”

23 And God raised up against Solomon another adversary, Rezon son of Eliada, who had fled from his master, Hadadezer king of Zobah.24 When David destroyed Zobah’s army, Rezon gathered a band of men around him and became their leader; they went to Damascus, where they settled and took control. 25 Rezon was Israel’s adversary as long as Solomon lived, adding to the trouble caused by Hadad. So Rezon ruled in Aram and was hostile toward Israel.

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CONTEMPORARY


 Twenty First Dynasty of Egypt

Pharaohs

 The Twenty-First, Twenty-Second, Twenty-Third, Twenty-Fourth, and Twenty-Fifth Dynasties of ancient Egypt are often combined under the group title, Third Intermediate Period. After the reign of Ramesses III, a long, slow decline of royal power in Egypt followed.

 1 KING 9:24  solomon moved his wife the Pharaoh's daughter gtom ther city of david to the new palacehe had built for her then he constructed supporting terraces
























 






NAAMAH , DAUGHTER OF PHATAOH PAUSENNES II
NAAMAH. DAUGHTER OH PSUSENNES II OF 21SY DYNASTY

 

 SOLOMON AND PHARAOH SIAMUN OF 21SY DYNATY OF EGYPT ALSO KNOWN AS PSUSENNES II WHO BECAME A FATHER IN LAW OF KING SOLOMON



Psusennes PSUSENNES II PHARAOH OF EGYPY OF 21ST DYNASTY

rjERoboam Rebels Against Solomon

26 Also, Jeroboam son of Nebat rebelled against the king. He was one of Solomon’s officials, an Ephraimite from Zeredah, and his mother was a widow named Zeruah.

27 Here is the account of how he rebelled against the king: Solomon had built the terraces[a] and had filled in the gap in the wall of the city of David his father. 28 Now Jeroboam was a man of standing, and when Solomon saw how well the young man did his work, he put him in charge of the whole labor force of the tribes of Joseph.

29 About that time Jeroboam was going out of Jerusalem, and Ahijahthe prophet of Shiloh met him on the way, wearing a new cloak. The two of them were alone out in the country, 30 and Ahijah took hold of the new cloak he was wearing and tore it into twelve pieces. 31 Then he said to Jeroboam, “Take ten pieces for yourself, for this is what theLord, the God of Israel, says: ‘See, I am going to tear the kingdom out of Solomon’s hand and give you ten tribes. 32 But for the sake of my servant David and the city of Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, he will have one tribe. 33 I will do this because they have[b] forsaken me and worshiped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Molek the god of the Ammonites, and have not walked in obedience to me, nor done what is right in my eyes, nor kept my decrees and laws as David, Solomon’s father, did.

34 “‘But I will not take the whole kingdom out of Solomon’s hand; I have made him ruler all the days of his life for the sake of David my servant, whom I chose and who obeyed my commands and decrees. 35 I will take the kingdom from his son’s hands and give you ten tribes. 36 I will give one tribe to his son so that David my servant may always have a lamp before me in Jerusalem, the city where I chose to put my Name. 37 However, as for you, I will take you, and you will rule over all that your heart desires; you will be king over Israel. 38 If you do whatever I command you and walk in obedience to me and do what is right in my eyes by obeying my decrees and commands, as David my servant did, I will be with you. I will build you a dynasty as enduring as the one I built for David and will give Israel to you. 39 I will humble David’s descendants because of this, but not forever.’”

40 Solomon tried to kill Jeroboam, but Jeroboam fled to Egypt, to Shishak the king, and stayed there until Solomon’s death.

Solomon’s Death

41 As for the other events of Solomon’s reign—all he did and the wisdom he displayed—are they not written in the book of the annals of Solomon? 42 Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years.43 Then he rested with his ancestors and was buried in the city of David his father. And Rehoboam his son succeeded him as king.

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NAAMAH, DAUGHTER OF THE PHARAOH OF EGYPT

SHE BECAME THE WIFE OF KING SOLOMON

  Her husband Solomon reigned from about 962-922BC; her son Rehoboam from 922-915BC

 

 

 

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