Solomon - The Adam That Never Was

Was Solomon’s prayer for wisdom a good idea or a prophetic parallel?

Abraham’s Garden of Eden test

1 Kings 3:7 “And now, O Lord my God, you have made your servant king in place of David my father, although I am but a little child. I do not know how to go out or come in.”

I am but a little child - childlike state of wisdom

Adam and Eve’s childlike state of wisdom

Go out or come in is a reference to leadership and war

Too many to be number or counted

Abraham’s prophecy fulfilled

Govern your people

Lead in the garden

Discern between good and evil

God’s discernment of good and evil

It wasn’t just a good idea for Solomon to ask for wisdom. God was giving Solomon a choice. Do you want riches, wealth, or the life of your enemies? That’s what the knowledge of the tree of good and evil would provide. Worldly wisdom would ask for those things.

Solomon doesn’t ask for these things, he ask that God lead and guide his steps. He asks for wisdom from the tree of life.