The Lord appears to Solomon a second time ( I wonder how He appeared and if He was in the cloud) and reminds Solomon that if he follows God's decrees that the House of David will rule forever....Israel will be cut off if they don't follow the decrees....
One could say that Solomon had achieved the pinnacle of his greatness.....he was known for construction...
Rather a random thing was Hiram, king of Tyre's comments about twenty towns that Solomon gave him...he wasn't pleased with them and we don't know if Solomon is being unfair or not...Scripture doesn't tell us. Note the foreshadowing.....Pharaoh's daughter, Solomon's wife of a political alliance is mentioned. Solomon doesn't want her to live where the ark of the covenant is......does he think God would disapprove of his wife? Stay tuned!
My Bible has notes that says that Solomon knew he had married a woman who had no place in the worship of Israel and no connection to the nation's God. He knowingly sinned. Ok....was the Pharaoh's daughter his wife or did he give the house he built to the pharaoh's daughter because his wife should not be there?
ReplyDeleteYes, Pharaoh's daughter was definitely Solomon's wife...his first wife. Solomon built a separate building because he knew that she shouldn't be where the Ark of the Covenant was, scholars think.....be this move, he surely knew God wouldn't approve and was trying to get around it....we never do that, do we?
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