2 Chronicles 9:23-28 –
All the kings of the earth sought audience with Solomon
to hear the wisdom God had put in his heart. Year after year, everyone
who came brought a gift—articles of silver and gold, and robes, weapons and
spices, and horses and mules. Solomon had four thousand stalls for
horses and chariots, and twelve thousand horses, which he kept in the chariot cities and
also with him in Jerusalem. He ruled over all the kings from the Euphrates River to the land of the Philistines, as far as
the border of Egypt. The king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stones, and
cedar as plentiful as sycamore-fig trees in the foothills. Solomon’s horses were imported
from Egypt and from all other countries.
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Kings 11:2,4,6,11,39 – 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…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…So Solomon did evil in
the eyes of the Lord; he did not follow the Lord completely,
as David his father had done…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…I will humble
David’s descendants because of this, but not forever.’”
Application:
- · “They will surely turn your hearts after their gods”, as indeed they did.
- · “His wives turned his heart after other gods”, as the Lord had warned.
- · Although David committed grievous sins, he was repentant, and he was never involved in idolatrous worship.
- · Solomon had broken the most basic demands of the covenant and thereby severely undermined the entire covenant relationship between God and His people.
- · The division of the kingdom considerably reduced the status and power of the house of David.
All Scripture verses taken from NIV
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