Foundations

We will be concluding our "King Solomon" Bible Study series this week. The 1 Kings 11 passage on the end of Solomon's reign and life is a sad one. We see that the strong foundation of Solomon's life, built on a Godly heritage, favor from God, and wisdom granted by God, crumbles and falls after all his compromises and sins (marrying foreign wives, questionable business dealings, use of Canaanite forced labor, building altars and sacrificing to detestable false gods, accumulating too much gold, silver, horses, and chariots, etc). He did not even heed the threats to the established peace as warnings and reminders to repent and turn his heart back to God. It is unbelievably sad, that the king who was able to offer such an amazing prayer and speech at the dedication of the temple, is the same one who has now fallen so far into sin. The hope is that Solomon did eventually turned back to the wisdom of truth in fearing God and keeping His commandments, as he wrote in his conclusion in Ecclesiastes.