1 KINGS chapter 9
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1 KINGS chapter 9
1 KINGS chapter 9
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We were off for spring break, anyone remember where we left off at
1 Kings 8?
Dedication of the Temple
Long Prayer by Solomon
Celebration and Sacrifices
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1 So Solomon finished building the Temple of the Lord, as well as the royal palace. He completed everything he had planned to do. 2 Then the Lord appeared to Solomon a second time, as he had done before at Gibeon.
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3 The Lord said to him,
“I have heard your prayer and your petition. I have set this Temple apart to be holy—this place you have built where my name will be honored forever. I will always watch over it, for it is dear to my heart.
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4 “As for you, if you will follow me with integrity and godliness, as David your father did, obeying all my commands, decrees, and regulations, 5 then I will establish the throne of your dynasty over Israel forever. For I made this promise to your father, David: ‘One of your descendants will always sit on the throne of Israel.’
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6 “But if you or your descendants abandon me and disobey the commands and decrees I have given you, and if you serve and worship other gods, 7 then I will uproot Israel from this land that I have given them. I will reject this Temple that I have made holy to honor my name. I will make Israel an object of mockery and ridicule among the nations.
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8 And though this Temple is impressive now, all who pass by will be appalled and will gasp in horror. They will ask, ‘Why did the Lord do such terrible things to this land and to this Temple?’
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9 “And the answer will be, ‘Because his people abandoned the Lord their God, who brought their ancestors out of Egypt, and they worshiped other gods instead and bowed down to them. That is why the Lord has brought all these disasters on them.’ ”
Has the Lord appeared to Solomon before?
Chapter 3 “ask what you wish”
Chapter 6 “If you walk in My statutes, execute My ordinances and keep commandments, I will dwell among the sons of Israel and not forsake My people”
What has the Lord told Solomon this time?
Have God’s people been reminded of these things before?
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11 “But the land into which you are about to cross to possess it, a land of hills and valleys, drinks water from the rain of heaven,
12 a land for which the Lord your God cares; the eyes of the Lord your God are always on it, from the beginning even to the end of the year.
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13 “It shall come about, if you listen obediently to my commandments which I am commanding you today, to love the Lord your God and to serve Him with all your heart and all your soul,
14 that He will give the rain for your land in its season, the early and late rain, that you may gather in your grain and your new wine and your oil.
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15 “He will give grass in your fields for your cattle, and you will eat and be satisfied.
16 “Beware that your hearts are not deceived, and that you do not turn away and serve other gods and worship them.
or what?
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17 “Or the anger of the Lord will be kindled against you, and He will shut up the heavens so that there will be no rain and the ground will not yield its fruit; and you will perish quickly from the good land which the Lord is giving you.
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10 It took Solomon twenty years to build the Lord’s Temple and his own royal palace. At the end of that time, 11 he gave twenty towns in the land of Galilee to King Hiram of Tyre. (Hiram had previously provided all the cedar and cypress timber and gold that Solomon had requested.)
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12 But when Hiram came from Tyre to see the towns Solomon had given him, he was not at all pleased with them. 13 “What kind of towns are these, my brother?” he asked. So Hiram called that area Cabul (which means “worthless”), as it is still known today. 14 Nevertheless, Hiram paid Solomon 9,000 pounds of gold.
1 pound of gold today $30,400 / 9000 lbs of gold today would be 273 million dollars
So what kinds of situation does this look like going on between Solomon and Hiram? Could it be that Solomon was borrowing money from Hiram to build all this cities?
Maybe another reason Hiram was upset is it was obvious that Solomon had kept better towns for himself or for Israel.
We can find that in 2 Chron chapt 8
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1 It took Solomon twenty years to build the Lord’s Temple and his own royal palace. At the end of that time, 2 Solomon turned his attention to rebuilding the towns that King Hiram had given him, and he settled Israelites in them.
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3 Solomon also fought against the town of Hamath-zobah and conquered it. 4 He rebuilt Tadmor in the wilderness and built towns in the region of Hamath as supply centers.
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5 He fortified the towns of Upper Beth-horon and Lower Beth-horon, rebuilding their walls and installing barred gates. 6 He also rebuilt Baalath and other supply centers and constructed towns where his chariots and horses could be stationed. He built everything he desired in Jerusalem and Lebanon and throughout his entire realm.
Not only did king Solomon rebuild these towns but looks like they were well fortified and he built anything he desired
If Solomon borrowed money from heathen nations would that be prohibited in God’s law (2 Cor 6 about a partner ship of righteousness and lawlessness and of light and darkness and the OT quote of “come out of their midst and be separate”)
Well obviously he couldn’t do all this building by himself so let’s learn who helped him
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15 This is the account of the forced labor that King Solomon conscripted to build the Lord’s Temple, the royal palace, the supporting terraces, the wall of Jerusalem, and the cities of Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer.
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16 (Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, had attacked and captured Gezer, killing the Canaanite population and burning it down. He gave the city to his daughter as a wedding gift when she married Solomon.
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17 So Solomon rebuilt the city of Gezer.) He also built up the towns of Lower Beth-horon, 18 Baalath, and Tamar in the wilderness within his land. 19 He built towns as supply centers and constructed towns where his chariots and horses could be stationed. He built everything he desired in Jerusalem and Lebanon and throughout his entire realm.
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20 There were still some people living in the land who were not Israelites, including Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites. 21 These were descendants of the nations whom the people of Israel had not completely destroyed. So Solomon conscripted them for his labor force, and they serve in the labor force to this day.
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22 But Solomon did not conscript any of the Israelites for forced labor. Instead, he assigned them to serve as fighting men, government officials, officers and captains in his army, commanders of his chariots, and charioteers. 23 Solomon appointed 550 of them to supervise the people working on his various projects.
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Forced Labor
מַס (mas) tribute, tributary, levy, taskmasters, discomfited
We need to hang on this discussion because it will play into a big event a little later on
We will see and I have learned how much building was really going on and will be ongoing for many many years even at the end of Solomon's reign
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24 Solomon moved his wife, Pharaoh’s daughter, from the City of David to the new palace he had built for her. Then he constructed the supporting terraces.
Wiersbe’s Expository Outlines on the Old Testament Chapters 9–11
Solomon’s marriage to an Egyptian princess was strictly a political move, for he was importing horses and other luxuries from Egypt (10:28–29). To “go back to Egypt” was contrary to God’s will for the Jews. “Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help!” cried Isaiah (31:1). By marrying a heathen woman, Solomon was setting a bad example for his nation and unnecessarily involving the people in the affairs of the heathen.
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25 Three times each year Solomon presented burnt offerings and peace offerings on the altar he had built for the Lord. He also burned incense to the Lord. And so he finished the work of building the Temple.
26 King Solomon also built a fleet of ships at Ezion-geber, a port near Elath in the land of Edom, along the shore of the Red Sea.
Wiersbe’s Expository Outlines on the Old Testament Chapters 9–11
Solomon’s navy must have sailed as far away as India to secure the luxuries his kingdom demanded.
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27 Hiram sent experienced crews of sailors to sail the ships with Solomon’s men. 28 They sailed to Ophir and brought back to Solomon some sixteen tons of gold.
SLIDE 26 “1 KINGS - Keep The Charge of the Lord Your God”
