King Solomon
King Solomon one of the most influential kings in the entire bible Solomon was a wise king and was gifted as well as punished for his transgressions on his people and God. This paper will show how Solomon was thought to be one of the greatest kings of the bible, his contributions on the lively hood of the Israelite people and how he was sent to bring the people into a new type of living for the people of Israel. This paper will give a personal account on my reason for thinking that Solomon is a great king of his time. Solomon was born the son of Bathsheba and thought to be the illegitimate son of David. The people accepted this since Bathsheba was a prostitute, and Solomon was to be the heir of the throne regardless of any parental problems. According to 1Kings 1:17, "She said to him, 'My lord you swore to your servant by the Lord your God, saying your son Solomon shall succeed me as king, and he shall sit on my throne,'" This comes from a conversation between Bathsheba and David so that the choice of the king would be Solomon. So according to scripture Solomon was the chosen successor of David. Once Solomon received the thrown he prayed to God to be blessed with the great wisdom that the Lord his God have.
2. The New Oxford Annotated Bible; Metzger, Bruce; Murphy, Roland 1991 Oxford University Press Inc. "you shall not enter into marriage with them, neither shall they with you; for they will surely incline your heart to follow their gods"; Solomon clung to these in love. (1Kings 11:2) the women that are being talked about here are anyone of his many wives that were not a child of Israel. This made the Lord unhappy with Solomon since he not only disobeyed the direct law of God by marrying these women he then worships and builds temples for the gods of his wives breaking the commandments that were sent down. God also was unhappy by the actions of Solomon using the lord's people Israelites or not to build the temple taking on slaves. The lord punished Solomon for not keeping the covenant and statutes that his father David did by removing the kingdom from the hands of Solomon. The major flaws of Solomon were his love for many women, building pagan temples, and using forced labor to complete the temple of the lord. Solomon commits crimes against the lord first he had many wives it is said that he had one thousand wives from all over the world. This was a crime because Solomon didn't keep the covenant and statutes of the lord. Solomon let his wives change the god he believed in which led to another one of his crimes. The worship of pagan gods was bought on by the marriage to all of his wives. Building those gods temples as well as for the lord God. Solomon disobeyed a direst order from God, Finally the reason for this paper was to better the knowledge of myself and the reader on the best king of the Israelites, that being King Solomon. From simply reading the bible he caught my interest for his great gifts to the people of Israel, and any man that can keep a thousand wives is someone really worth reading more about. Solomon could be a role model for the people of Israel during his early years in power because the wisdom
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