Immerse Kingdoms Day 212 Year 2 Bible Reading

Day 212: Solomon's Wisdom and Leadership - Bible Reading Experience

In today's Immerse Bible Reading Experience, we explore Day 212. The passage narrates King Solomon's alliance with Pharaoh, his marriage to Pharaoh's daughter, and the construction of his palace and the temple of the Lord. It highlights Israel's practice of sacrificing at local worship places before the temple's construction and showcases Solomon's deep devotion to God. Notably, Solomon's dream where God grants him wisdom is recounted, followed by his wise judgment in settling a dispute between two women claiming to be the mother of a living child. This episode encapsulates Solomon's wisdom and God's blessings on his reign.

00:00 Introduction and Welcome
00:04 Solomon's Alliance and Marriage
00:29 Solomon's Worship and Sacrifices
00:49 Solomon's Dream and Request for Wisdom
01:49 God's Response to Solomon
02:51 Solomon's Wise Judgment
04:59 Conclusion and Farewell

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Day 200 and 12

solomon made an alliance with
Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, and

married one of his daughters.

He brought her to live in the city of
David until he could finish building

his palace and the temple of the
Lord and the wall around the city.

At that time, the people of
Israel sacrificed their offerings

at local places of worship.

For a temple honoring the name of
the Lord had not yet been built.

Solomon loved the Lord and followed
all the decrees of his father David,

except that Solomon, too, offered
sacrifices and burned incense

at the local places of worship.

The most important of these
places of worship was at Gibeon.

So the king went there and sacrificed
one thousand burnt offerings.

That night the Lord appeared
to Solomon in a dream.

And God said, What do you want?

Ask and I will give it to you.

Solomon replied, You showed great
and faithful love to your servant,

my father David, because he was
honest and true and faithful to you,

and you have continued to show this
great and faithful love to him today.

By giving him a son to sit on his throne.

Now, O Lord my God, you have made
me king instead of my father David.

But I am like a little child
who doesn't know his way around.

And here I am in the midst
of your own chosen people.

A nation so great and numerous
they cannot be counted.

Give me an understanding heart, so that
I can govern your people well and know

the difference between right and wrong.

For who by himself is able to
govern this great people of yours?

The Lord was pleased that
Solomon had asked for wisdom.

So God replied, Because you have
asked for wisdom in governing my

people with justice, and have not
asked for a long life, or wealth,

or the death of your enemies.

I will give you what you asked for.

I will give you a wise and
understanding heart, such as no

one else has had or ever will have.

And I will also give you what you
did not ask for, riches and fame.

No other king in all the world will be
compared to you for the rest of your life.

And if you follow me and obey my decrees
and my commands as your father David

did, I will give you a long life.

Then Solomon woke up and
realized it had been a dream.

He returned to Jerusalem and
stood before the Ark of the Lord's

Covenant, where he sacrificed burnt
offerings and peace offerings.

Then he invited all his
officials to a great banquet.

Sometime later, two prostitutes came to
the king to have an argument settled.

Please, my lord, one of them began.

This woman and I live in the same house.

I gave birth to a baby while
she was with me in the house.

Three days later this
woman also had a baby.

We were alone.

There were only two of us in the house.

But her baby died during the
night when she rolled over on it.

Then she got up in the night and took my
son from beside me while I was asleep.

She laid her dead child in my arms
and took mine to sleep beside her.

And in the morning when I tried
to nurse my son, he was dead.

But when I looked more closely
in the morning light, I saw

that it wasn't my son at all.

Then the other woman interrupted,
It certainly was your son,

and the living child is mine.

No, the first woman said, The living
child is mine, and the dead one is yours.

And so they argued back
and forth before the king.

Then the king said, Let's
get the fact straight.

Both of you claim the living child
is yours, and each says that the

dead one belongs to the other.

Alright, bring me a sword.

So a sword was brought to the king.

Then he said, Cut the living
child in two and give half to

one woman and half to the other.

Then the woman who was the real mother
of the living child and who loved him

very much cried out, Oh no, my lord!

Give her the child!

Please do not kill him!

But the other woman said, All
right, he will be neither yours

nor mine, divide him between us.

Then the king said, Do not kill the
child, but give him to the woman who

wants him to live, for she is his mother.

When all Israel heard the king's
decision, the people were in awe of

the king, for they saw the wisdom God
had given him for rendering justice.

This concludes today's
Immerse Reading Experience.

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