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Solomon

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December 11
Read: I Kings 3:3-28
Symbol: Crown

Solomon was the son of David and Bathsheba. His father and mother taught him to desire wisdom. In the book of Proverbs, which Solomon wrote, he tells how his father and mother taught him that the most important thing in life was wisdom and understanding. When God asked him what he would desire, he asked for wisdom. God was very pleased at this request and gave him the wisdom and understanding to rule the people. God also gave him riches and honor.
Solomon was a good king in some ways. He built the first temple in Israel. But Solomon was careless, and he allowed his wives to lead him into the worship of idols. Solomon ruled in peace the land that David had won, but after Solomon died Israel was divided into two kingdoms.
Jesus, speaking of Himself, told the Pharisees, "Behold, a greater than Solomon is here" (Matt. 12:42). Solomon did not always use God's wisdom, but Jesus always did His Father's will.

Prayer: Father, Your Word tells us that if we want wisdom, we can ask and You will give it to us. We ask for Your wisdom to guide our lives.

Link to I Kings

3:3
And Solomon loved the LORD, walking in the statutes of David his father: only he sacrificed and burnt incense in high places.
3:4
And the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there; for that was the great high place: a thousand burnt offerings did Solomon offer upon that
altar.
3:5
In Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream by night: and God said, Ask what I shall give thee.
3:6
And Solomon said, Thou hast showed unto thy servant David my father great mercy, according as he walked before thee in truth, and in
righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with thee; and thou hast kept for him this great kindness, that thou hast given him a son to sit
on his throne, as it is this day.
3:7
And now, O LORD my God, thou hast made thy servant king instead of David my father: and I am but a little child: I know not how to
go out or come in.
3:8
And thy servant is in the midst of thy people which thou hast chosen, a great people, that cannot be numbered nor counted for multitude.
3:9
Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people, that I may discern between good and bad: for who is able to judge
this thy so great a people?
3:10
And the speech pleased the Lord, that Solomon had asked this thing.
3:11
And God said unto him, Because thou hast asked this thing, and hast not asked for thyself long life; neither hast asked riches for thyself,
nor hast asked the life of thine enemies; but hast asked for thyself understanding to discern judgment;
3:12
Behold, I have done according to thy words: lo, I have given thee a wise and an understanding heart; so that there was none like thee
before thee, neither after thee shall any arise like unto thee.
3:13
And I have also given thee that which thou hast not asked, both riches, and honour: so that there shall not be any among the kings like
unto thee all thy days.
3:14
And if thou wilt walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as thy father David did walk, then I will lengthen thy
days.
3:15
And Solomon awoke; and, behold, it was a dream. And he came to Jerusalem, and stood before the ark of the covenant of the LORD,
and offered up burnt offerings, and offered peace offerings, and made a feast to all his servants.
3:16
Then came there two women, that were harlots, unto the king, and stood before him.
3:17
And the one woman said, O my lord, I and this woman dwell in one house; and I was delivered of a child with her in the house.
3:18
And it came to pass the third day after that I was delivered, that this woman was delivered also: and we were together; there was no
stranger with us in the house, save we two in the house.
3:19
And this woman's child died in the night; because she overlaid it.
3:20
And she arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while thine handmaid slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child
in my bosom.
3:21
And when I rose in the morning to give my child suck, behold, it was dead: but when I had considered it in the morning, behold, it was
not my son, which I did bear.
3:22
And the other woman said, Nay; but the living is my son, and the dead is thy son. And this said, No; but the dead is thy son, and the
living is my son. Thus they spake before the king.
3:23
Then said the king, The one saith, This is my son that liveth, and thy son is the dead: and the other saith, Nay; but thy son is the dead,
and my son is the living.
3:24
And the king said, Bring me a sword. And they brought a sword before the king.
3:25
And the king said, Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other.
3:26
Then spake the woman whose the living child was unto the king, for her bowels yearned upon her son, and she said, O my lord, give her
the living child, and in no wise slay it. But the other said, Let it be neither mine nor thine, but divide it.
3:27
Then the king answered and said, Give her the living child, and in no wise slay it: she is the mother thereof.
3:28
And all Israel heard of the judgment which the king had judged; and they feared the king: for they saw that the wisdom of God was in
him, to do judgment.

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