AUTOPSY OF A DOOMED KING

•KING SOLOMON•

A FATHERS WORDS OF WARNING 

1 Kings 2:3 (NASB95)

•3 “Keep the charge of the Lord your God, to walk in His ways, to keep His statutes, His commandments, His ordinances, and His testimonies, according to what is written in the Law of Moses, that you may succeed in all that you do and wherever you turn,••A SONS FATAL FLAW OF “EXCEPT”

1 Kings 3:2–3 (NASB95)

•2 The people were still sacrificing on the high places, because there was no house built for the name of the Lord until those days. 3 Now Solomon loved the Lord, walking in the statutes of his father David, except he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.••HIS DISEASED HEART•THE HEART OF HIS DEVOTION

1 Kings 8:61 (NASB95)

•61 “Let your heart therefore be wholly devoted to the Lord our God, to walk in His statutes and to keep His commandments, as at this day.”••THE HEART OF HIS PASSION

1 Kings 11:1 (NASB95)1 Now King Solomon loved many foreign women along with the daughter of Pharaoh: Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, and Hittite women,

••THE HEART OF HIS PEOPLE

1 Kings 11:2 (NASB95)

•2 from the nations concerning which the Lord had said to the sons of Israel, “You shall not associate with them, nor shall they associate with you, for they will surely turn your heart away after their gods.” Solomon held fast to these in love.•HIS DISEASED DIRECTION•DIRECTION OF EXCESS

1 Kings 11:3 (NASB95)

•3 He had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines, and his wives turned his heart away.••DIRECTION OF COMPOUNDING DECISIONS

1 Kings 11:4 (NASB95)

•4 For when Solomon was old, his wives turned his heart away after other gods; and his heart was not wholly devoted to the Lord his God, as the heart of David his father had been.••DIRECTION OF PASSIONS

1 Kings 11:5–6 (NASB95)

•5 For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians and after Milcom the detestable idol of the Ammonites. 6 Solomon did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, and did not follow the Lord fully, as David his father had done.••HIS DEADLY DEMISE •HIS MORAL DECISION

1 Kings 11:7–8 (NASB95)

•7 Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the detestable idol of Moab, on the mountain which is east of Jerusalem, and for Molech the detestable idol of the sons of Ammon. 8 Thus also he did for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods.••HIS MORAL DECISION

1 Kings 11:7–8 (NASB95)

•7 Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the detestable idol of Moab, on the mountain which is east of Jerusalem, and for Molech the detestable idol of the sons of Ammon. 8 Thus also he did for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods.••HIS MORAL DOOM

1 Kings 11:9 (NASB95)

•9 Now the Lord was angry with Solomon because his heart was turned away from the Lord, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice,••HIS MORAL DIFFICULTY

1 Kings 11:14 (NASB95)

•14 Then the Lord raised up an adversary to Solomon, Hadad the Edomite; he was of the royal line in Edom.••