Participants: Kelly Mowrer
Series Code: HWAL
Program Code: HWAL000542
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00:17 Hello, and welcome to His Words are Life.
00:19 I'm Kelly Mowrer and today we're going to read together in the 00:23 book of 1st Kings. And we're starting with the story of 00:26 the reign of King Solomon, the wisest man who ever lived. 00:29 Before we begin to read, let's pray together. 00:31 Dear God, we ask for you to send your wisdom to our ears 00:38 through this story. Help us to hear, not just with our ears, 00:42 but with our hearts also. Create in us clean hearts, 00:46 and then give us your wisdom to live according to your will. 00:49 We love you so much and thank you for loving us. Amen. 00:52 We're beginning in 1st Kings, chapter 2, with verse 11, 00:58 and this is the King James Version. 01:00 And the days that David reigned over Israel were forty years: 01:05 7 years reigned he in Hebron, and 30 and 3 years 01:09 reigned he in Jerusalem. Then sat Solomon upon the throne 01:14 of David his father; and his kingdom was established greatly. 01:17 And Adonijah the son of Haggith came to Bathsheba the mother of 01:22 Solomon. And she said, Comest thou peaceably? 01:26 And he said, Peaceably. He said moreover, I have somewhat to say 01:31 unto thee. And she said, Say on. And he said, Thou knowest that 01:37 the kingdom was mine, and that all Israel set their faces on me 01:41 that I should reign: howbeit the kingdom is turned about, and is 01:45 become my brother's: for it was his from the Lord. 01:47 And now I ask one petition of thee, deny me not. 01:52 And she said unto him, Say on. And he said, Speak, I pray thee 01:58 unto Solomon the king, for he will not say thee nay, 02:02 that he give me Abishag the Shunamite to wife. 02:07 And Bathsheba said, Well; I will speak for thee unto the king. 02:12 Bathsheba therefore went unto king Solomon, to speak unto him 02:16 for Adonijah. And the king rose up to meet her, and bowed 02:20 himself unto her, and sat down on his throne, and caused a seat 02:23 to be set for the king's mother; and she sat on his right hand. 02:27 Then she said I desire one small petition of thee: I pray thee, 02:33 say me not nay. And the king said unto her, Ask on, my mother 02:38 for I will not say thee nay. And she said, Let Abishag 02:44 the Shunamite be given to Adonijah thy brother to wife. 02:48 And King Solomon answered and said unto his mother, And why 02:53 dost thou ask Abishag the Shunamite for Adonijah? 02:56 ask for him the kingdom also; for he is mine elder brother; 03:00 even for him, and for Abiathar the priest, and for Joab the son 03:03 of Zeruiah. Then king Solomon sware by the Lord, saying, 03:08 God do so to me, and more also, if Adonijah have not spoken 03:11 this word against his own life. Now therefore as the Lord liveth 03:16 which hath established me, and set me on the throne of David my 03:19 father, and who hath made me an house, as he promised, 03:22 Adonijah shall be put to death this day. And king Solomon 03:27 sent by the hand of Benaiah the son of Jehoiada: and he fell 03:30 upon him that he died. And unto Abiathar the priest 03:34 said the king, Get thee to Anathoth, unto thine own fields; 03:38 for thou art worthy of death: but I will not at this time 03:42 put thee to death, because thou bearest the ark of the Lord God 03:46 before David, my Father, and because thou hast been afflicted 03:49 in all wherein my father was afflicted. So Solomon thrust 03:54 out Abiathar from being priest unto the Lord; that he might 03:58 fulfill the word of the Lord, which he spake concerning 04:01 the house of Eli in Shiloh. Then tidings came to Joab: 04:06 for Joab had turned after Adonijah, though he turned 04:09 not after Absalom. And Joab fled unto the tabernacle of the Lord, 04:14 and caught hold on the horns of the altar. And it was told king 04:18 Solomon that Joab was fled unto the tabernacle of the Lord; 04:21 and, behold, he is by the altar. Then Solomon sent Benaiah 04:25 the son of Jehoiada, saying, Go, fall upon him. 04:29 And Benaiah came to the tabernacle of the Lord, 04:32 and said unto him, Thus saith the king, Come forth. 04:35 And he said, Nay; but I will die here. And Benaiah brought the 04:40 king word again, saying, Thus said Joab, and thus he answered 04:45 me. And the king said unto him, Do as he hath said, and fall 04:49 upon him, and bury him; that thou mayest take away the 04:51 innocent blood, which Joab shed, from me, and from the house of 04:54 my father. And the Lord shall return his blood upon his own 04:57 head, who fell upon two men more righteous and better than he, 05:01 and slew them with the sword, my father David not knowing thereof 05:06 to wit, Abner the son of Ner, captain of the host of Israel, 05:10 and Amasa, the son of Jether, captain of the host of Judah. 05:13 Their blood shall therefore return upon the head of Joab, 05:17 and upon the head of his seed forever; but upon David, 05:21 and upon his seed, and upon his house and upon his throne, shall 05:25 there be peace for ever from the Lord. 05:26 So Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went up, and fell upon him, 05:31 and slew him: and he was buried in his own house 05:34 in the wilderness. And the king put Benaiah the son of Jehoiada 05:38 in his room over the host: and Zadok the priest did the king 05:43 put in the room of Abiathar. And the king sent and called 05:47 for Shimei, and said unto him, Build thee an house in Jerusalem 05:51 and dwell there, and go not forth thence any whither. 05:56 For it shall be, that on the day that thou goest out, 06:00 and passest over the brook Kidron, thou shalt know for 06:04 certain that thou shalt surely die: thy blood shall be upon 06:08 thine own head. And Shimei said unto the king, The saying is 06:13 good: as my lord the king hath said, so will thy servant do. 06:17 And Shimei dwelt in Jerusalem many days. And it came to pass 06:22 at the end of three years, that two of the servants of Shimei 06:26 ran away unto Achish, son of Maachah, king of Gath. 06:31 And they told Shimei, saying, Behold, thy servants be in Gath. 06:36 And Shimei arose, and saddled his ass, and went to Gath 06:40 to Achish to seek his servants: and Shimei went, and brought 06:44 his servants from Gath. And it was told Solomon that Shimei 06:49 had gone from Jerusalem to Gath, and was come again. And the king 06:52 sent and called for Shimei, and said unto him, Did I not make 06:56 thee to swear by the Lord, and protested unto thee, saying, 07:00 Know for a certain, on the day thou goest out, and walkest 07:04 abroad any whither, that thou shalt surely die? and thou 07:08 saidst unto me, The word that I have heard is good. 07:11 Why then hast thou not kept the oath of the Lord, 07:14 and the commandment that I have charged thee with? 07:17 The king said moreover to Shimei, Thou knowest all the 07:21 wickedness which thine heart is privy to, that thou didst 07:25 to David my father: therefore the Lord shall return thy 07:28 wickedness upon thine own head; And king Solomon shall be 07:32 blessed, and the throne of David shall be established before 07:35 the Lord for ever. So the king commanded Benaiah, the son of 07:39 Jehoiada; which went out, and fell upon him, that he died 07:43 And the kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon. 07:47 We're continuing in the book of 1st Kings, chapter 3, 07:51 and this is the King James Version. 07:53 And Solomon made affinity with Pharaoh king of Egypt, 07:58 and took Pharaoh's daughter, and brought her into the city 08:01 of David, until he had made an end of building his own house, 08:05 and the house of the Lord, and the wall of Jerusalem round 08:07 about. Only the people sacrificed in high places, 08:11 because there was no house built unto the name of the Lord, 08:13 until those days. And Solomon loved the Lord, walking in the 08:18 statutes of David his father: only he sacrificed and burnt 08:23 incense in high places. And the king went to Gibeon 08:26 to sacrifice there; for that was the great high place: 08:29 a thousand burnt offerings did Solomon offer upon that altar. 08:33 In Gibeon the Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream by night: 08:37 And God said, Ask what I shall give thee. And Solomon said, 08:43 Thou hast showed unto thy servant David my father 08:46 great mercy, according as he walked before thee in truth, 08:50 and in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with thee; 08:52 and thou hast kept for him this great kindness, that thou hast 08:56 given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day. 09:00 And now, O Lord my God, thou hast made thy servant king 09:06 instead of David my father: and I am but a little child: 09:09 I know not how to go out or to come in. And thy servant 09:13 is in the midst of thy people which thou hast chosen, 09:16 a great people, that cannot be numbered nor counted 09:19 for multitude. Give therefore thy servant an understanding 09:23 heart to judge thy people, that I may discern between good and 09:28 bad: for who is able to judge this thy so great a people? 09:33 And the speech pleased the Lord, that Solomon had asked 09:37 this thing. And God said unto him, Because thou hast asked 09:41 this thing, and hast not asked for thyself long life; neither 09:45 hast asked riches for thyself, nor hast asked the life of thine 09:48 enemies: but hast asked for thyself understanding 09:52 to discern judgment; Behold, I have done according to thy words 09:57 lo, I have given thee a wise and an understanding heart; 10:01 so that there was none like thee before thee, neither 10:05 after thee shall any arise like unto thee. And I have also given 10:10 thee that which thou hast not asked, both riches, and honor: 10:14 so that there shall not be any among the kings like unto thee 10:18 all thy days. And if thou wilt walk in my ways, to keep my 10:24 statutes and my commandments, as thy father David did walk, 10:27 then I will lengthen thy days. And Solomon awoke; And behold 10:32 it was a dream. And he came to Jerusalem, and stood 10:35 before the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and offered up 10:38 burnt offerings, and offered peace offerings, and made a 10:40 feast to all his servants. Then came there two women, 10:45 that were harlots, unto the king and stood before him. 10:49 And the one woman said, O my lord, I and this woman dwell 10:53 in one house; and I was delivered of a child with her 10:57 in the house. And it came to pass the third day after 11:01 that I was delivered, that this woman was delivered also: 11:04 and we were together; there was no stranger with us 11:08 in the house save we two in the house. And this woman's child 11:12 died in the night; because she overlaid it. And she arose 11:17 at midnight, and took my son from beside me, 11:20 while thine handmaid slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid 11:24 her dead child in my bosom. And when I rose in the morning 11:28 to give my child suck, behold, it was dead: but when I had 11:32 considered it in the morning, behold, it was not my son, 11:35 which I did bear. And the other woman said, Nay; but the living 11:39 is my son, and the dead is thy son. And this said, No; but the 11:44 dead is thy son, and the living is my son. Thus they spake 11:47 before the king. Then said the king, the one saith, 11:52 This is my son that liveth, and thy son is the dead: 11:56 and the other saith, Nay; but thy son is the dead, and my son 12:01 is the living. And the King said, Bring me a sword. 12:05 And they brought a sword before the king. And the king said, 12:09 Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, 12:14 and half to the other. Then spake the woman whose 12:19 the living child was unto the king, for her bowels yearned 12:23 upon her son, and she said, O my lord, give her the living 12:26 child, and in no wise slay it. But the other said, Let it be 12:32 neither mine nor thine, but divide it. Then the king 12:36 answered and said, Give her the living child, and in no wise 12:39 slay it: she is the mother thereof. And all Israel heard 12:44 of the judgment which the king had judged; and they feared 12:47 the king: for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him, 12:49 to do judgment. We're reading now 12:54 in 1st Kings, chapter 4, this is the King James Version. 12:59 So King Solomon was king over all Israel. And these were the 13:04 princes which he had; and there follows a long list of 13:07 names. We're going to skip past that, and we're going to pick 13:10 it up in 1st Kings 4, verse 20. Judah and Israel were many, 13:16 as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and 13:20 drinking and making merry. And Solomon reigned over all 13:23 kingdoms from the river unto the land of the Philistines, 13:26 and unto the border of Egypt: they brought presents, 13:28 and served Solomon all the days of his life. And Solomon's 13:32 provision for one day was 30 measures of fine flour, 13:35 and threescore measures of meal, 10 fat oxen, and 20 oxen out of 13:39 the pastures, and an hundred sheep, beside harts, 13:43 and roebucks, and fallowdeer, and fatted fowl. 13:46 For he had dominion over all the region on this side 13:49 of the river, from Tiphsah even to Azzah, over all the kings 13:53 on this side the river: and he had peace on all sides 13:56 round about him. And Judah and Israel dwelt safely, every man 14:01 under his vine and under his fig tree, from Dan even to 14:04 Beersheba, all the days of Solomon. And Solomon had 40,000 14:09 stalls of horses for his chariots, and 12,000 horsemen. 14:13 And those officers provided victual for king Solomon, 14:15 and for all that came unto king Solomon's table, every man 14:19 in his month: they lacked nothing. 14:21 Thank you for joining with me today to read the word of God, 14:25 and may God give us the wisdom that he blessed Solomon with, 14:30 that we may love him with all of our hearts and serve him 14:33 all our days. Goodbye. |
Revised 2014-12-17