1 Kings 11
Solomon, despite, or possibly because, of his great wealth was courted by many women and he married loads of wives, I mean 700 wives of royal descent and 300 concubines.
I simply do not understand the logic of somebody being content to be one of 1000 women that were at the beck and call of Solomon - flipping heck just imagine the grief he would have if he upset one of the mothers-in-law or forgot a birthday or anniversary!
Anyway his wives coming from different countries all bought their religion with them and Solomon was accommodating enough to try and share their faiths and this led him away from serving the God of Israel, who Jews, Christians, and Muslims believe is the one true God.
Solomon started out asking the true God for wisdom but ended up making a mess of his faith being led astray by his wives.
Solomon built alters to these other gods on the hills around Jerusalem burning incense and making sacrifices.
This really upset God and God promised to take the kingdom away from Solomon as he had not followed the ways of God as David his father had, but for the sake of David, he would tear the kingdom from Solomon's son, not Solomon himself.
Solomon also found he had enemies - Hadad the Edomite had escaped when king David and Joab the army commander had defeated Edom and killed all the men. Hadad was young and escaped to Egypt.
He married the sister in law of the Pharaoh and when he heard that David and Joab were dead moved against Solomon, as did a ruler of Aram called Rezon.
From within Israel, one of Solomon's officials also rebelled - Jeroboam (Not sure if this is the inspiration behind the name given to and extra large bottle with the capacity of 4 bottles of champagne) was in charge of forced labour in Judah and was met by a prophet who tore his cloak into 12 and gave 10 parts to Jeroboam declaring that he would be king of 10 parts of Israel as God had decreed, all he had to do was walk in the way of God and keep the law and his dynasty would last .
Solomon tried to get Jeroboam but he escaped to Egypt.
Solomon dies at the end of the chapter and the Golden age of Israel is over - the Bible refers to a lost book, the annals of Solomon, and Solomon dies and is succeeded by his son Rehoboam
We shall see how he gets on in the next post, he has a tough act to follow - Solomon had 1000 women in his harem and still found time to write books and run a country.
Sometimes I find it tough being single, writing a blog, and working as an engineer during the day.
Solomon, despite, or possibly because, of his great wealth was courted by many women and he married loads of wives, I mean 700 wives of royal descent and 300 concubines.
I simply do not understand the logic of somebody being content to be one of 1000 women that were at the beck and call of Solomon - flipping heck just imagine the grief he would have if he upset one of the mothers-in-law or forgot a birthday or anniversary!
Anyway his wives coming from different countries all bought their religion with them and Solomon was accommodating enough to try and share their faiths and this led him away from serving the God of Israel, who Jews, Christians, and Muslims believe is the one true God.
Solomon started out asking the true God for wisdom but ended up making a mess of his faith being led astray by his wives.
Solomon built alters to these other gods on the hills around Jerusalem burning incense and making sacrifices.
This really upset God and God promised to take the kingdom away from Solomon as he had not followed the ways of God as David his father had, but for the sake of David, he would tear the kingdom from Solomon's son, not Solomon himself.
Solomon also found he had enemies - Hadad the Edomite had escaped when king David and Joab the army commander had defeated Edom and killed all the men. Hadad was young and escaped to Egypt.
He married the sister in law of the Pharaoh and when he heard that David and Joab were dead moved against Solomon, as did a ruler of Aram called Rezon.
From within Israel, one of Solomon's officials also rebelled - Jeroboam (Not sure if this is the inspiration behind the name given to and extra large bottle with the capacity of 4 bottles of champagne) was in charge of forced labour in Judah and was met by a prophet who tore his cloak into 12 and gave 10 parts to Jeroboam declaring that he would be king of 10 parts of Israel as God had decreed, all he had to do was walk in the way of God and keep the law and his dynasty would last .
Solomon tried to get Jeroboam but he escaped to Egypt.
Solomon dies at the end of the chapter and the Golden age of Israel is over - the Bible refers to a lost book, the annals of Solomon, and Solomon dies and is succeeded by his son Rehoboam
We shall see how he gets on in the next post, he has a tough act to follow - Solomon had 1000 women in his harem and still found time to write books and run a country.
Sometimes I find it tough being single, writing a blog, and working as an engineer during the day.
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