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Day 200 and 18
now, king Solomon loved many foreign women besides Pharaoh's daughter.
He married women from Moab, Amon, Edam, Saan, and from among the
Hittites, the Lord had clearly instructed the people of Israel.
You must not marry them because they will turn your hearts to their gods.
Yet Solomon insisted on loving them anyway, he had 700 wives of royal birth
and 300 concubines, and in fact, they did turn his heart away from the Lord.
In Solomon's old age.
They turned his heart to worship other gods instead of being completely faithful
to the Lord his God as his father, David had been Solomon worshiped Ash Toth.
The goddess of the Ians and Molech, the detestable God of the Ammonites.
In this way, Solomon did what was evil in the Lord's sight.
He refused to follow the Lord completely as his father David had done on the
Mount of Olives east of Jerusalem.
He even built a pagan shrine for mosh, the detestable God of
Moab, and another for Molech, the detestable God of the Ammonites.
Solomon built such shrines for all his foreign wives to use for burning
incense and sacrificing to their gods.
The Lord was very angry with Solomon, for his heart had turned away
from the Lord, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice.
He had warned Solomon specifically about worshiping other gods, but Solomon
did not listen to the Lord's command.
So now the Lord said to him, Since you have not kept my covenant and
have disobeyed my decrees, I will surely tear the kingdom away from you
and give it to one of your servants.
But for the sake of your father, David, I will not do
this while you are still alive.
I will take the kingdom away from your son, and even so, I will
not take away the entire kingdom.
I will let him be king of one tribe.
For the sake of my servant David, and for the sake of Jerusalem, my chosen city.
Then the Lord raised up.
Hey dad.
The Edam might a member of Eden's royal family to be Solomon's adversary.
Years before David had defeated Edam Joab, his army commander had
stayed to bury some of the Israelites soldiers who had died in battle.
While there, they killed every male in Edam, Joab, and the army of Israel had
stayed there for six months, killing them.
But hey, dad and a few of his father's royal officials
escaped and headed for Egypt.
Hey, dad was just a boy at the time.
They set out from Midian and went to Perrin, where others joined them.
Then they traveled to Egypt and went to Pharaoh who gave
them a home food and some land.
Pharaoh grew very fond of Hey dad, and he gave him his wife's sister in
marriage, the sister of Queen Tapis.
She bore him a son named GaN Bath.
Tapis raised him in Pharaoh's palace among Pharaoh's own sons.
When the news reached Hey dad in Egypt, that David and his commander Joab
were both dead, he said to Pharaoh, let me return to my own country.
Why Pharaoh asked him, what do you lack here that makes you want to go home?
Nothing.
He replied, but even so, please let me return home.
God also raised up.
Reason Son of Alah as Solomon's adversary reason had fled from his master king.
Hey dad, ISR of Zoba and had become the leader of a gang of rebels after
David conquered, Hey dad, easer.
Reason and his men fled to Damascus where he became king.
Reason was Israel's bitter adversary for the rest of Solomon's reign, and
he made trouble just as Hayad did.
Reason, hated Israel intensely, and continued to reign in Arum.
Another rebel leader was Jar Boham, son of Neba, one of Solomon's own officials.
He came from the town of Zaida and Rai.
And his mother was Zaa, a widow.
This is the story behind his rebellion.
Solomon was rebuilding the supporting terraces and repairing
the walls of the city of his father.
David Jar Boham was a very capable young man, and when Solomon saw how industrious
he was, he put him in charge of the labor force from the tribes of Raim
and Manasa, the descendants of Joseph.
One day as Jeroboam was leaving Jerusalem, the prophet, a hijah
from Shiloh, met him along the way.
A hijah was wearing a new cloak.
The two of them were alone in a field, and a hijah took hold of the new cloak he
was wearing and tore it into 12 pieces.
Then he said to Jeroboam, take 10 of these pieces for this is what
the Lord the God of Israel says.
I am about to tear the kingdom from the hand of Solomon, and I will give 10 of
the tribes to you, but I will leave him one tribe for the sake of my servant,
David, and for the sake of Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes
of Israel, for Solomon, has abandoned me and worshiped Ash tore the goddess
of the Ians Kiosh, the God of Moab, and Molech, the God of the Ammonites.
He has not followed my ways and done what is pleasing in my sight.
He has not obeyed my decrees and regulations as David his father
did, but I will not take the entire kingdom from Solomon at this time.
For the sake of my servant David, the one whom I chose and who obeyed my
commands and decrees, I will keep Solomon as leader for the rest of his life.
But I will take the kingdom away from his son and give 10 of the tribes to you.
His son will have one tribe so that the descendants of David, my servant,
will continue to reign, shining like a lamp in Jerusalem, the city.
I have chosen to be the place for my name, and I will place you on the
throne of Israel and you will rule over all that your heart desires.
If you listen to what I tell you and follow my ways and do whatever I
consider to be right, and if you obey my decrees and commands as my servant David
did, then I will always be with you.
I will establish an enduring dynasty for you as I did for David, and I will give
Israel to you because of Solomon's sin.
I will punish the descendants of David, though not forever.
Solomon tried to kill re Boem, but he fled to King Shack of Egypt and
stayed there until Solomon died.
The rest of the events in Solomon's reign, including all his deeds
and his wisdom, are recorded in the book of the Acts of Solomon.
Solomon ruled in Jerusalem over all Israel for 40 years.
When he died, he was buried in the city of David, named for his father.
Then his son Rehoboam became the next king.
This concludes today's Immer reading experience.
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