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- Solomon and Saturnus is the generic name given to four Old English works, which present a dialogue of riddles between Solomon, the king of Israel, and Saturnus, identified in two of the poems as a prince of the Chaldeans. The most widely-renowned words — he teaches the scriptures, steering the tribes and holding their place, of the realm.
- 28 Bible Verses about Solomon. Solomon said to God, “You have dealt with my father David with great lovingkindness, and have made me king in his place. Now, O Lord God, Your promise to my father David is fulfilled, for You have made me king over a people as numerous as the dust of the earth.
- Solomon wrote numerous passages of Scripture. Solomon is responsible for writing a great amount of Scripture (1 Kings 4:23-34). He wrote Ecclesiastes, Proverbs (Proverbs 1:1), and Song of Solomon. Some believe that Proverbs 30 and 31 were written by others.
- King Solomon: the wisest man to ever live, builder of the temple, beautiful poet and national leader-he was a man who seemed to have it all yet said it was all meaningless at the end.We may have.
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Solomon recognizes that God's works and word are eternal and all that really matters (Ecclesiastes 3:14, 12:13-14). This indicates a reformed and penitent Solomon who followed again after the heart of his father David. Like David, Solomon is forgiven. The temporal consequences of his sins had to stand, but from the eternal consequences he was.
- Solomon was David and Bathsheba's second son.
- God loved Solomon from the very beginning.
- Yahweh chose Solomon to succeed David on the throne.
- David had the high priest and prophet publicly anoint Solomon.
- Sitting on David's mule during his anointing let the public know that Solomon had David's blessing.
- Once Solomon was anointed, the people followed him.
- Solomon inherited a vast kingdom.
- David's final advice to Solomon was that he should 'be strong, show yourself a man, and observe what the Lord your God requires: walk in his ways, and keep his decrees and commands,…so that you may prosper.'
- Then the Lord would keep his promise to David that his line would be forever.
- Solomon also had some unfinished military matters to fulfill.
- By the time David passed on, Solomon's rule was firmly established.
- Solomon married the Pharaoh's daughter to seal a political alliance.
- One night God appeared in a dream and invited Solomon to 'ask for whatever you want me to give you.'
- Solomon was very humble and expressed gratitude for all that God had done so far.
- Then Solomon asked for 'a discerning heart to govern…and to distinguish between right and wrong.'
- God was so pleased, He not only gave Solomon what he asked for but also added riches and honor.
- Solomon's wisdom is indicated by his wise words in discerning the true mother of the living baby.
- All Israel held the king in awe when they heard the verdict.
- Solomon was also very wise in setting up the administrative arm of his kingship.
- Solomon developed a strong central government and a system of taxation.
- Solomon also used forced labor for his building projects.
- Solomon's daily provisions included 150-280 bushels of fine flour and 300-500 bushels of coarse flour. (It is estimated that this amount of flour could have produced 28,000 pounds of bread, enough to feed 5,000-14,000 people!)
- Solomon's kingdom was peaceful and prosperous.
- Men of all nations came to listen to Solomon's wisdom.
- Solomon was the author of 3,000 proverbs.
- He wrote over 1,000 songs.
- After his kingdom was well established, Solomon made a treaty with the King of Hiram to provide materials and craftsmen to build a temple.
- This arrangement is seen as a fulfillment of God's promise to David.
- 30,000 Israelites, 70,000 carriers, and 80,000 stonecutters worked on the temple. (not to mention the foremen)
- He began building the temple in the fourth year of his reign. It took seven years to build. His palace and public buildings took 13 years to build.
- He made a special palace for his wife, Pharaoh's daughter.
- They had a humongous ceremony the day they dedicated the temple. The priests put the Ark of the Covenant in the inner sanctuary of the temple. When they withdrew, the cloud of the glory of God descended and filled the temple. God accepted his new home.
- Solomon prayed so that God would recognize the temple as the way for a sinful man to approach God through sacrifice and restoration.
- The Lord appeared to Solomon after the temple was built to encourage him to remain faithful and to walk in God's ways.
- After the completion of the building projects, Solomon ventured into international trade, especially throughout the Red Sea.
- Solomon's fame continued to spread.
- The Queen of Sheba took it upon herself to check him out personally.
- She peppered him with 'hard questions' -- and was satisfied with his answers.
- Whereas the Queen had thought reports about Solomon were exaggerated, after her visit she thought they didn't do him justice.
- The Queen of Sheba gave Solomon many gifts.
- The 666 talents of gold (roughly twenty-five tons!) that Solomon received each year from taxes, tributes, and trade made him richer than all the other kings of the earth.
- As Solomon got older, he wanted more and more of the good life.
- This would include wives and concubines. It is estimated that Solomon had 700 wives, and 300 concubines. Many were foreign born and 'he loved them' and 'held fast to them in love.'
- He also allowed them to continue to worship their native gods, eventually building high places for their gods.
- In this way Solomon did not keep the Lord's command.
- The Lord told Solomon he would 'tear the kingdom from you' and would give it to one of his subordinates. Also his descendant would have ONE tribe; the remaining tribes would be given to his subordinate.
- God raised up three men to be adversaries against Solomon, i.e., King of Edom, King of Zobah, and Jeroboam (an Ephraimite).
- Through the prophet of Shiloh, Ahijah, God told Jeroboam he would be given 10 tribes.
- Jeroboam fled to Egypt, away from King Solomon. He stayed there until Solomon died.
- Solomon's son, Rehoboam, succeeded him, but God's words came true. Rehoboam was ruler over Judah; Jeroboam was ruler over Israel (the 10 northern tribes).
- Solomon ruled over all Israel for forty years.
Bibliography
Alter, Robert and Frank Kermode. The Literary Guide to the Bible. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press. 1987.
Auld, A.Graeme. 'I & II Kings.' The Daily Study Bible Series. Philadelphia, PA: Westminster Press, 1986.
Brueggeman, Walter. Advertam info system inc. '1 & 2 Kings.' Smyth & Helwys Bible Commentary. Macon, Georgia: Smyth & Helwys. 2000.
Mills, Watson and Richard Wilson. Mercer Commentary on the Bible. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 1995.
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In two previous posts I wrote about why we should look to the Old Testament to find examples for us to follow, whether of things to avoid, or of things to emulate. My last post focused on the positive example of David in his battle with Goliath. In this post I want to look at Solomon, who early in his reign is a positive example of faith and wise-living, but who increasingly becomes a negative example of the dangers of wealth, power, and idolatry, among other things.
First, however, we need to jump back in time, to Moses’ day. As the Israelites were on the verge of entering the Promised Land, Moses preached to them about what God would require of his people so that they would not be exiled from the land once they had taken possession of it. Deuteronomy, in fact, is largely comprised of Moses’ sermons expressing God’s commitment to Israel, and Israel’s necessary response of faithfulness to God. Among the many things that Israel needs to know are the qualifications for its future kings, which are laid out for us in Deut 17:14-20. The king must be an Israelite (v. 15); he “must not acquire many horses for himself or cause the people to return to Egypt in order to acquire many horses” (v. 16); he must “not acquire many wives for himself, lest his heart turn away” to idolatry (v. 17); he must not “acquire for himself excessive silver and gold” (v. 17); and finally, he must diligently and humbly keep God’s law (v. 18). In sum, Israel’s king must avoid trusting in earthly power (symbolized by horses), idolatry, resting in wealth, and neglecting God’s commands.
How does Solomon fare when held up to the standard set out in Deuteronomy 17? Early in his kingdom, he does fairly well. At the beginning of his reign he is said to have “loved the Lord, walking in the statutes of David his father” (1 Kings 3:3), although even at this early point in Solomon’s kingship there are some worrying signs: he marries a daughter of Pharaoh (1 Kings 3:1; see Deut 17:17), and performs sacrifices and offerings “at the high places” (1 Kings 3:3). On the positive side, Solomon prays for wisdom, and expresses genuine humility in doing so (1 Kings 3:9-14).

When read in light of the kingly requirements of Deuteronomy 17, we soon see additional hints of problems that will emerge later in Solomon’s life. 1 Kings 4:26, for example, notes that “Solomon had 40,000 stalls of horses for his chariots, and 12,000 horsemen” (see Deut 17:16). These large numbers are not necessarily sinful, but as Deuteronomy warns, such a large accumulation of horses will tempt Israel’s kings to trust in their own military might, rather than in the power of God to save his people. Later in his reign, we receive an extensive account of the extravagant wealth of Solomon’s court (1 Kings 10:14-29), which includes such exotic items as ivory, apes and peacocks (v. 22). We also once again read of the extremely large number of horses in his possession, and even more ominously, of how many of them were imported from Egypt (again see Deut 17:16: “he must not … cause the people to return to Egypt in order to acquire many horses”). It is not coincidental that in the very next chapter (1 Kings 11) the narration turns to the beginnings of Solomon’s downfall.


In 1 Kings 11 we read that Solomon “loved many foreign women” (v. 1), a statement that is surely meant to evoke Deut 17:17 (Israel’s king must “not acquire many wives for himself, lest his heart turn away”). Solomon’s love of these women violates God’s warning to his people that they should “not enter into marriage with them, for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods” (1 Kings 11:2, possibly alluding to texts like Exod 34:16). In his old age these wives “turned away [Solomon’s] heart after other gods, and his heart was not wholly true to the Lord his God” (v. 4). The rest of 1 Kings 11 is a sad tale of the increasing discipline of Solomon by God for his idolatry, and the havoc this discipline wreaks upon the entire nation of Israel.
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What can Solomon’s life teach believers today? Are there lessons we can learn? The first—and most foundational—thing we learn from Solomon’s life (and repeated to varying degrees with all of Israel’s kings) is that there is no hope for God’s people unless a different kind of king arrives on the scene. The godly king of Deuteronomy 17, fully devoted to the Lord and to a perfect keeping of His law, never shows up in the Old Testament (which is true even of David, the “man after God’s own heart”). Ultimately, Israel awaits a king who will guide and protect them and deliver them from all of their enemies (including their own sin, the enemy within).
Jesus Christ, of course, is that king. He is the one who has come as a “ruler who will shepherd my people Israel” (Matt 2:6, quoting Micah 5:2 and possibly alluding to Ezek 34:23). Jesus is the king whom God has raised up as “a horn of salvation” in “the house of his servant David … that we should be saved from our enemies and from the hand of all who hate us” (Luke 1:69, 71). Jesus has come “to give knowledge of salvation to his people in the forgiveness of their sins” (Luke 1:77). In short, we learn from Solomon’s life to look elsewhere than to Israel’s human kings to deliver us. It is God alone who saves.
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How, then, does Solomon function as an example for believers? While there are positive lessons to learn from Solomon’s life, there are also many negatives. Solomon, as a king, is very different from us, but as a sinner with divided loyalties and a propensity to turn away from God, he is all too like us today. In fact, we can see in his life many of the most pressing temptations that all believers face in every age, namely, the temptations that come along with money, power, and love, as well as the idolatry that so easily takes root in our hearts. Solomon’s devotion to the Lord was primarily weakened because he “clung to [his wives] in love” (1 Kings 11:2) and allowed their pagan idolatry to turn his heart from God. Love is a powerful emotion, one that must be carefully guarded. The history of the world, and of the church, gives us story after story where the power of loving desire has led many to their ruin. God is love. That is why human love is such a powerful (and dangerous) thing: it easily becomes a false substitute for God’s love. If our hearts are not fixed on our Lord, love for others will become all consuming, and as with Solomon, will easily lead our hearts away from God so that we too become “not wholly true to the Lord [our] God” (1 Kings 11:4). Similar things could be said of Solomon’s trusting in his own wealth and military power.
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Faithful biblical teaching and preaching attends to the heart. Its lays open before us and before God all of our many sins, so that we can see how desperately we need a savior. One way it does this is by pointing us to examples. We see in positive examples of faith a model for our own faith (the subject of my last post). However, negative examples are important too: we learn from these examples about the multitude of sinful desires that have been with us since Adam’s fall, the sins “that so easily entangle” us (Heb 12:1) and lead us away from our loving heavenly Father. Instead of merely condemning the folly and rebellion of the saints and sinners we encounter in the Old Testament, let us examine our own hearts, lest those same sins entangle us too.
See also:
- Solomon’s Sin and Our Sin
Dr. Ben C. Dunson is professor of New Testament at Reformation Bible College.
