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Devotional
1 Kings 11:4 For it happened, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his heart after other gods; and his heart was not perfect with Yahweh his God, as the heart of David his father was. WEB Solomon began his…
Chapter study
…than according to our list, the name stays honest. 2 Chronicles 3:1 Solomon builds the temple on Mount Moriah, the same ridge. Psalm 121:1 I will lift up my eyes to the hills, from whence comes my help. Matthew 6:32…
Chapter study
…a real place in David's life, though the temple itself is left for Solomon to build. Around 592 BC Ezekiel prophesies against Israel's shepherds God promises to shepherd the flock Himself and to set one shepherd, my…
Dig Deeper
…in Hebrews 11:8 about his first journey. 2 Chronicles 3:1 Then Solomon began to build Yahweh’s house at Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where Yahweh appeared to David his father, which he prepared in the place that David had…
Verse study
…than according to our list, the name stays honest. 2 Chronicles 3:1 Solomon builds the temple on Mount Moriah, the same ridge. Psalm 121:1 I will lift up my eyes to the hills, from whence comes my help. Matthew 6:32…
Reading plan
…sentence to obey before the day ends. Wisdom Work Money The book names Solomon first, and the headings inside it also credit the men of Hezekiah, Agur and the mother of Lemuel. So Proverbs is a collection, not a single…
Devotional
…and tell someone else in the household what it is. Jesus, greater than Solomon (Matthew 12:42), is the wisdom of God (1 Corinthians 1:24), and every household built on him is built on a foundation that cannot be shaken…
Devotional
…with what my effort cannot secure. Amen. This psalm is attributed to Solomon in its heading, a striking choice given his enormous building projects, including the temple. Whether or not the attribution is original, the…
Devotional
…nor he who loves abundance, with increase: this also is vanity. WEB Solomon, who had more wealth than almost anyone in the ancient world, states the problem from experience: loving money does not produce satisfaction…
Devotional
…Abram, generations before its fulfillment in Joshua's day. 1 Kings 8:56 Solomon at the temple dedication says the same: not one word has failed of all his good promise. What promise has God already kept in your life…
Devotional
…anxiety, birds, lilies, and seeking the kingdom first. 1 Kings 3:9-13 Solomon asks for wisdom rather than wealth or long life, and is given the rest as well. Romans 14:17 The kingdom of God is not eating and drinking,…
Devotional
…not personally finish or see completed. David's temple was finished by Solomon, but the greater house, the dwelling place of God among his people, is fulfilled in Christ, who said destroy this temple and I will raise it…
Devotional
…Mount Moriah is mentioned again in 2 Chronicles 3:1 as the site where Solomon built the temple, tying this act of provision to the place where Israel's sacrifices would later be offered for centuries. Genesis 22:1-13…
Devotional
…first half cost something. Leaning is what you do when you are tired. Solomon is not banning thought; he is naming what happens when your own reasoning becomes the thing you rest your weight on. God is offered as the…
52 Week Journey
…quieted soul, the writer of Hebrews warning against the love of money, Solomon's warning about never being satisfied, and Israel's manna, which could not be hoarded past a day. None of these treat contentment as…
52 Week Journey
…week of the journey looks at people who did, and did not, finish well: Solomon's decline, Demas who loved this present world, Caleb still ready to take a mountain at eighty-five, and Paul's last recorded words. It…
Reading plan day
Solomon contrasts truthful lips, which last forever, with a lying tongue, which lasts only a moment, and compares rash, careless speech to the thrust of a sword. The tongue of the wise, by contrast, brings healing.…
Reading plan day
Solomon pictures wisdom and folly as two builders, one building her house and the other tearing hers down with her own hands. The chapter treats the health of a household as evidence of the wisdom, or folly, that shaped…
Reading plan day
Solomon warns that answering before listening is both foolish and shameful, because a real answer requires actually understanding what was said first. Much of what passes for conversation is really just two people…
Reading plan day
Solomon warns against wearing yourself out to get rich, since wealth can sprout wings and fly away like an eagle, and against overindulging even at a ruler's table. Appetite and ambition both need limits set by wisdom,…
Reading plan day
Solomon compares a fool who repeats his folly to a dog returning to its vomit, a deliberately unflattering image meant to expose how strange it is to keep returning to a pattern that has already proven destructive.…
Reading plan day
Solomon tells his son to guard his heart above everything else he guards, because everything else in life, our words and our actions, flows out from it. Whatever you let shape your heart will eventually show up in how…
Reading plan day
Solomon sends the lazy person to watch an ant, which works hard with no overseer telling it to. Diligence, the chapter argues, does not require someone standing over you, it is a discipline you choose on your own.…
Book of the Bible
Song of Solomon has 8 chapters.
Biblical concept
…what is right in his own eyes (Judges 21:25). Kingdom Saul, David and Solomon, then a divided line measured reign by reign against the LORD's commands. Prophets A shoot from the stump of Jesse (Isaiah 11:1), a righteous…
Biblical concept
…are anointed (Exodus 30:22-33, Leviticus 8). Kingdom Saul, David and Solomon are anointed, and the LORD's anointed becomes a protected title (1 Samuel 10:1, 16:13, 24:6). Prophets and Psalms The anointed one is set…
Word and phrase
…gospel, as a single call rather than two separate steps. 1 Kings 8:47 Solomon's prayer at the dedication of the temple anticipates a day when Israel, exiled for its sin, will repent in the land of their captivity and…
Place in Scripture
…Son (Matthew 17:1-5). God is more present on mountains than elsewhere. Solomon says at the dedication of the temple that heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain God (1 Kings 8:27), and Jesus tells the woman at the…
Place in Scripture
The temple was the place God chose for his name to dwell, built by Solomon on the pattern of the tabernacle. Its architecture taught distance and access at once: courts, a holy place, and behind a veil the holy of…
Christian Living
…will of God. Proverbs 4:23 Keep the heart with all diligence. Song of Solomon 2:7 The repeated warning not to stir up love before its time. Dating and Relationships 2 Corinthians 6:14 Don’t be unequally yoked with…
Bible question
…7:14 begins with if my people shall humble themselves and pray. Solomon's own prayer in 1 Kings 3:7 starts by admitting he does not know how to go out or come in. Persistent prayers Luke 18:1 gives the parable of the…
Bible question
…finally by a cross. Christian trust always has evidence in its hands. Solomon, king of Israel, writing as a father instructing his son A son being trained in wisdom, and through him the covenant community reading…
Bible question
…and relationships is shaped by whether they have this rightly or not. Solomon, credited as the primary author of Proverbs, drawing also on the sayings of the wise His son, and through him every young reader entering…
The Sunday Study
Verse-by-verse teaching with historical context, and a prayer to close. Nothing else in the email.