WEBVTT NOTE This file was generated by Descript 00:00:00.030 --> 00:00:03.140 Ethan: Welcome To Immerse: The Daily Bible Reading Experience. 00:00:03.257 --> 00:00:04.587 Day 200 and 18 00:00:05.075 --> 00:00:10.655 now, king Solomon loved many foreign women besides Pharaoh's daughter. 00:00:10.865 --> 00:00:16.445 He married women from Moab, Amon, Edam, Saan, and from among the 00:00:16.445 --> 00:00:20.825 Hittites, the Lord had clearly instructed the people of Israel. 00:00:21.305 --> 00:00:25.925 You must not marry them because they will turn your hearts to their gods. 00:00:26.855 --> 00:00:33.485 Yet Solomon insisted on loving them anyway, he had 700 wives of royal birth 00:00:33.845 --> 00:00:40.055 and 300 concubines, and in fact, they did turn his heart away from the Lord. 00:00:41.285 --> 00:00:42.755 In Solomon's old age. 00:00:43.205 --> 00:00:47.615 They turned his heart to worship other gods instead of being completely faithful 00:00:47.615 --> 00:00:54.125 to the Lord his God as his father, David had been Solomon worshiped Ash Toth. 00:00:54.950 --> 00:01:00.590 The goddess of the Ians and Molech, the detestable God of the Ammonites. 00:01:01.490 --> 00:01:05.030 In this way, Solomon did what was evil in the Lord's sight. 00:01:05.660 --> 00:01:11.870 He refused to follow the Lord completely as his father David had done on the 00:01:11.875 --> 00:01:14.150 Mount of Olives east of Jerusalem. 00:01:14.600 --> 00:01:19.100 He even built a pagan shrine for mosh, the detestable God of 00:01:19.105 --> 00:01:23.900 Moab, and another for Molech, the detestable God of the Ammonites. 00:01:24.785 --> 00:01:28.985 Solomon built such shrines for all his foreign wives to use for burning 00:01:28.985 --> 00:01:32.015 incense and sacrificing to their gods. 00:01:33.245 --> 00:01:37.205 The Lord was very angry with Solomon, for his heart had turned away 00:01:37.205 --> 00:01:41.405 from the Lord, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice. 00:01:42.215 --> 00:01:47.195 He had warned Solomon specifically about worshiping other gods, but Solomon 00:01:47.195 --> 00:01:49.205 did not listen to the Lord's command. 00:01:50.195 --> 00:01:55.730 So now the Lord said to him, Since you have not kept my covenant and 00:01:55.730 --> 00:02:00.680 have disobeyed my decrees, I will surely tear the kingdom away from you 00:02:00.920 --> 00:02:02.840 and give it to one of your servants. 00:02:03.500 --> 00:02:06.530 But for the sake of your father, David, I will not do 00:02:06.530 --> 00:02:08.210 this while you are still alive. 00:02:08.600 --> 00:02:13.550 I will take the kingdom away from your son, and even so, I will 00:02:13.550 --> 00:02:15.500 not take away the entire kingdom. 00:02:16.190 --> 00:02:18.290 I will let him be king of one tribe. 00:02:18.980 --> 00:02:24.500 For the sake of my servant David, and for the sake of Jerusalem, my chosen city. 00:02:26.060 --> 00:02:27.560 Then the Lord raised up. 00:02:27.565 --> 00:02:28.190 Hey dad. 00:02:28.195 --> 00:02:33.770 The Edam might a member of Eden's royal family to be Solomon's adversary. 00:02:34.880 --> 00:02:40.730 Years before David had defeated Edam Joab, his army commander had 00:02:40.730 --> 00:02:44.130 stayed to bury some of the Israelites soldiers who had died in battle. 00:02:45.155 --> 00:02:51.665 While there, they killed every male in Edam, Joab, and the army of Israel had 00:02:51.665 --> 00:02:53.885 stayed there for six months, killing them. 00:02:54.515 --> 00:02:57.335 But hey, dad and a few of his father's royal officials 00:02:57.335 --> 00:02:59.675 escaped and headed for Egypt. 00:03:00.245 --> 00:03:02.135 Hey, dad was just a boy at the time. 00:03:02.765 --> 00:03:06.725 They set out from Midian and went to Perrin, where others joined them. 00:03:07.685 --> 00:03:11.195 Then they traveled to Egypt and went to Pharaoh who gave 00:03:11.195 --> 00:03:13.325 them a home food and some land. 00:03:13.985 --> 00:03:18.695 Pharaoh grew very fond of Hey dad, and he gave him his wife's sister in 00:03:18.700 --> 00:03:21.725 marriage, the sister of Queen Tapis. 00:03:22.325 --> 00:03:24.755 She bore him a son named GaN Bath. 00:03:25.535 --> 00:03:29.735 Tapis raised him in Pharaoh's palace among Pharaoh's own sons. 00:03:30.755 --> 00:03:34.745 When the news reached Hey dad in Egypt, that David and his commander Joab 00:03:34.745 --> 00:03:40.355 were both dead, he said to Pharaoh, let me return to my own country. 00:03:41.645 --> 00:03:47.105 Why Pharaoh asked him, what do you lack here that makes you want to go home? 00:03:48.185 --> 00:03:48.755 Nothing. 00:03:48.905 --> 00:03:53.735 He replied, but even so, please let me return home. 00:03:54.845 --> 00:03:56.315 God also raised up. 00:03:56.315 --> 00:04:03.035 Reason Son of Alah as Solomon's adversary reason had fled from his master king. 00:04:03.035 --> 00:04:08.435 Hey dad, ISR of Zoba and had become the leader of a gang of rebels after 00:04:08.435 --> 00:04:10.175 David conquered, Hey dad, easer. 00:04:10.595 --> 00:04:14.195 Reason and his men fled to Damascus where he became king. 00:04:15.305 --> 00:04:20.435 Reason was Israel's bitter adversary for the rest of Solomon's reign, and 00:04:20.440 --> 00:04:22.595 he made trouble just as Hayad did. 00:04:23.585 --> 00:04:28.415 Reason, hated Israel intensely, and continued to reign in Arum. 00:04:30.065 --> 00:04:35.495 Another rebel leader was Jar Boham, son of Neba, one of Solomon's own officials. 00:04:36.395 --> 00:04:39.255 He came from the town of Zaida and Rai. 00:04:40.265 --> 00:04:42.815 And his mother was Zaa, a widow. 00:04:44.045 --> 00:04:46.655 This is the story behind his rebellion. 00:04:47.825 --> 00:04:51.545 Solomon was rebuilding the supporting terraces and repairing 00:04:51.545 --> 00:04:53.405 the walls of the city of his father. 00:04:53.405 --> 00:05:00.095 David Jar Boham was a very capable young man, and when Solomon saw how industrious 00:05:00.095 --> 00:05:04.565 he was, he put him in charge of the labor force from the tribes of Raim 00:05:04.565 --> 00:05:07.145 and Manasa, the descendants of Joseph. 00:05:08.345 --> 00:05:12.845 One day as Jeroboam was leaving Jerusalem, the prophet, a hijah 00:05:12.845 --> 00:05:14.825 from Shiloh, met him along the way. 00:05:15.665 --> 00:05:17.495 A hijah was wearing a new cloak. 00:05:18.155 --> 00:05:22.655 The two of them were alone in a field, and a hijah took hold of the new cloak he 00:05:22.655 --> 00:05:25.235 was wearing and tore it into 12 pieces. 00:05:26.375 --> 00:05:31.985 Then he said to Jeroboam, take 10 of these pieces for this is what 00:05:31.985 --> 00:05:34.145 the Lord the God of Israel says. 00:05:35.465 --> 00:05:40.475 I am about to tear the kingdom from the hand of Solomon, and I will give 10 of 00:05:40.475 --> 00:05:45.755 the tribes to you, but I will leave him one tribe for the sake of my servant, 00:05:45.760 --> 00:05:50.615 David, and for the sake of Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes 00:05:50.615 --> 00:05:56.705 of Israel, for Solomon, has abandoned me and worshiped Ash tore the goddess 00:05:56.710 --> 00:06:03.155 of the Ians Kiosh, the God of Moab, and Molech, the God of the Ammonites. 00:06:04.040 --> 00:06:07.610 He has not followed my ways and done what is pleasing in my sight. 00:06:08.090 --> 00:06:12.170 He has not obeyed my decrees and regulations as David his father 00:06:12.170 --> 00:06:17.390 did, but I will not take the entire kingdom from Solomon at this time. 00:06:18.470 --> 00:06:23.240 For the sake of my servant David, the one whom I chose and who obeyed my 00:06:23.245 --> 00:06:28.220 commands and decrees, I will keep Solomon as leader for the rest of his life. 00:06:29.210 --> 00:06:34.070 But I will take the kingdom away from his son and give 10 of the tribes to you. 00:06:34.940 --> 00:06:39.290 His son will have one tribe so that the descendants of David, my servant, 00:06:39.290 --> 00:06:44.000 will continue to reign, shining like a lamp in Jerusalem, the city. 00:06:44.000 --> 00:06:48.950 I have chosen to be the place for my name, and I will place you on the 00:06:48.950 --> 00:06:53.780 throne of Israel and you will rule over all that your heart desires. 00:06:54.740 --> 00:06:59.150 If you listen to what I tell you and follow my ways and do whatever I 00:06:59.150 --> 00:07:05.390 consider to be right, and if you obey my decrees and commands as my servant David 00:07:05.390 --> 00:07:07.850 did, then I will always be with you. 00:07:08.780 --> 00:07:14.120 I will establish an enduring dynasty for you as I did for David, and I will give 00:07:14.120 --> 00:07:18.020 Israel to you because of Solomon's sin. 00:07:18.050 --> 00:07:21.950 I will punish the descendants of David, though not forever. 00:07:23.180 --> 00:07:28.550 Solomon tried to kill re Boem, but he fled to King Shack of Egypt and 00:07:28.550 --> 00:07:30.560 stayed there until Solomon died. 00:07:32.150 --> 00:07:36.230 The rest of the events in Solomon's reign, including all his deeds 00:07:36.230 --> 00:07:40.250 and his wisdom, are recorded in the book of the Acts of Solomon. 00:07:40.880 --> 00:07:45.050 Solomon ruled in Jerusalem over all Israel for 40 years. 00:07:45.710 --> 00:07:50.090 When he died, he was buried in the city of David, named for his father. 00:07:50.900 --> 00:07:54.080 Then his son Rehoboam became the next king. 00:07:55.970 --> 00:07:58.850 This concludes today's Immer reading experience. 00:07:58.970 --> 00:08:00.200 Thank you for joining us.