King Solomon decided to build a temple where the Lord would be worshiped, and also to build a palace for himself.
Not a word regarding settling scores (1 Kings 2:13-46).
King Hiram sent Solomon a letter…, “Because the Lord loves his people, he has made you their king. Praise the Lord God of Israel, Creator of heaven and earth! He has given King David a wise son, full of understanding and skill
Perhaps for a similar reason I remain in obscurity… In any event, Solomon will not experience the same with his son Roboam (2 Chronicles 10:8-19).
I am sending you a wise and skillful master metalworker named Huram. …He can do all sorts of engraving and can follow any design suggested to him.
I saw myself as being wise and skillful at one time but time has proved me wrong…
King David, Solomon’s father, had already prepared a place for the Temple. It was in Jerusalem, on Mount Moriah, where the Lord appeared to David, at the place which Araunah the Jebusite had used as a threshing place.
Wow. The same place where Abraham was to offer up his son Isaac (Genesis 22:1-19).
The king decorated the Temple with beautiful precious stones and with gold imported from the land of Parvaim. …The king also had his workers make two winged creatures out of metal, cover them with gold, and place them in the Most Holy Place, where they stood side by side facing the entrance. Each had two wings, each wing 7½ feet long, which were spread out so that they touched each other in the center of the room and reached to the wall on either side of the room, stretching across the full width of 30 feet.
And to think that we are more elaborately made, of much greater value (1 Corinthiens 3:16) and ever more completely protected (Matthew 18:10; Romans 8:37-39)!
Huram …completed all the objects that he had promised King Solomon he would make…
May I likewise faithfully complete all that you have entrusted me to do, Lord Jesus (Luke 19:16-17).