Thoughts from my personal time with God.
…Solomon made two hundred large shields and had each one overlaid with almost fifteen pounds of gold. …He also had a large throne made. Part of it was covered with ivory and the rest of it was covered with the finest gold. …All of Solomon’s drinking cups were made of gold, and all the utensils in the Hall of the Forest of Lebanon were of pure gold.
1 Kings 10:16 – 11:8 Read More »
King Solomon gave Hiram twenty towns in the region of Galilee. Hiram went to see them, and he did not like them. So he said to Solomon, “So these, my brother, are the towns you have given me!” For this reason the area is still called Cabul. Hiram had sent Solomon almost five tons of gold.
It’s good to remain friends even when business deals don’t correspond to expectation.…
May the Lord our God remember at all times this prayer and these petitions I have made to him.
Please remember the petitions I make to you now, Father!
“And so all the nations of the world will know that the Lord alone is God—there is no other. May you, his people, always be faithful to the Lord our God…”
May it be so, Lord.…
As the people stood there, King Solomon turned to face them, and he asked God’s blessing on them. He said, “Praise the Lord God of Israel! He has kept the promise he made to my father David…
I await, Lord (Habakkuk 2:1-3): transformation and participation (Jeremiah 6:27; Philippiens 1:29-30; …). Isaiah 55:8-11. I will wait.
…“…can you, O God, really live on earth?
1 Kings 8:14 – 58 — Clone Read More »
As the people stood there, King Solomon turned to face them, and he asked God’s blessing on them. He said, “Praise the Lord God of Israel! He has kept the promise he made to my father David…
I await, Lord (Habakkuk 2:1-3): transformation and participation (Jeremiah 6:27; Philippiens 1:29-30; …). Isaiah 55:8-11. I will wait.
…“…can you, O God, really live on earth?
All these buildings and the great court were made of fine stones…
How our attention is drawn to what is transitory (Mark 13:1-2)! May I think and see otherwise, Father (Hebrews 12:27).
…When King Solomon finished all the work on the Temple, he placed in the Temple storerooms all the things that his father David had dedicated to the Lord—the silver, gold, and other articles.
1 Kings 7:1 – 8:13 Read More »
King Hiram of Tyre had always been a friend of David’s…
To have friends (2 Samuel 5:11)…
…“I have now decided to build that temple for the worship of the Lord my God. So send your men to Lebanon to cut down cedars for me. …As you well know, my men don’t know how to cut down trees as well as yours do.”
Solomon was king of all Israel… The people of Judah and Israel were as numerous as the grains of sand on the seashore; they ate and drank, and were happy. …As long as he lived, the people throughout Judah and Israel lived in safety, each family with its own grapevines and fig trees.
The golden epoch for those who came later, looking back with nostalgia and regret (Psalm 137:1-6).…
…The Lord was pleased that Solomon had asked for this, and so he said to him, “Because you have asked for the wisdom to rule justly, instead of long life for yourself or riches or the death of your enemies, I will do what you have asked. I will give you more wisdom and understanding than anyone has ever had before or will ever have again.
On one occasion he went to Gibeon to offer sacrifices because that was where the most famous altar was. He had offered hundreds of burnt offerings there in the past.
The original from the times of Moses (1 Chronicles 21:28-22:1). Times change though. May I ever remember the past but never hold on to it.
That night the Lord appeared to him in a dream…
Oh that you would appear to me in this way, Lord!…