King Solomon Chapter 1

When King Solomon’s heart was turned away from the living God to idol, and the Lord vowed to take away the kingdom of Israel away from him only living the tribe of Judah to Solomon’s offspring because of his father David (1 Kings 11:4-13). When Solomon died, the united kingdom of Israel was divided into two kingdoms under king Rehoboam’s reign, Solomon’s son. The tribe of Judah and Benjamin became the kingdom of Judah, while the other ten tribes of Israel, became the northern kingdom, and was governed by Jeroboam the son of Nebat who reigned over the ten tribes known as the house of Israel (1 kings 12:1-25).

In the beginning of this book of the Bible, the reader is introduced to Nehemiah, the cupbearer to King Artaxerxes. This book of the Bible deals with the destruction of the wall of Jerusalem, and how Nehemiah returned to help rebuild the wall. Nehemiah led the people of Jerusalem through a period of time that saw them facing oppression and hardship, and he led them to achieve a tremendous feat. In Nehemiah 4 it says in verses seven through nine, “ But when Sanballat and Tobiah and the Arabs and the Ammonites and the Ashdodites heard that the repairing of the walls of Jerusalem was going forward and that the breaches were beginning to be closed, they were very angry.

Solomon was the wisest man to ever live; yet in his old age, he lost touch with God and his people. He married many foreign women and accepted their gods as his own. In addition, he enforced heavy taxes on his kingdom causing intense anger. It is here that God spoke through the Prophet Ahijah to Jeroboam and promised him the Ten Northern Tribes, if he was faithful to God. (I Kings 11:26-40)

It is interesting to see multiple accounts of a certain event appear in a text, especially when these accounts differ. The divergent sections of each account allow readers to understand the purposed of the writing more efficiently. In the accounts of Solomon’s reign present in 1 Kings and 2 Chronicles, we are able to witness very similar, yet inexact accounts. The account in 1 Kings tends to relate a more detailed story of Solomon that presents a personal side to getting to know the ruler, flaws and successes. In 2 Chronicles we receive a description of the king that is much more focused on his accomplishments.

Israel’s was a united kingdom under the monarchal reigns of Saul, David and Solomon who ruled for forty years each. Solomon’s reign was considered the golden years for Israel and it was during this time that the first temple was built for Yahweh. With detailed plans from his father David, which were received from God through the prophet Nathan, the temple was constructed and no “hammer or chisel or any iron tool was heard” in it as it was being built (1 Kings 6:7). It was modeled after the tabernacle instituted by Moses in the wilderness and took seven years to complete. The beauty of this temple can be imagined by the following passage in the Old Testament:

This paper is an analysis of the books of 1 and 2 Kings. It will examine their authorship, structure, flow, and themes. In addition, it will compare their content to the writings of 1-2 Chronicles, Isaiah, and extra-biblical writers who speak of the same events. Lastly, it will examine the author’s place in history as a historian and theologian.

Judah did have three evil rulers and they were worshippers of idolatry. As he begin to give them some teachings on what God wanted and what He stood for. Some of the books were taught in subjects as iniquity does not triumph, God does not overlook sin, the righteous man live by his faith, and the Lord is God of the universe, and more important lessons.

The introduction of the book of Kings talks about Solomon being king as well as Jeroboam it then goes on to talk about the Story of Elijah and Ahab. These two people did not get along. Ahab wanted the Israelites to worship Baal, Elijah did not want that seeing that, he is a prophet he wanted the Israelites to worship God. Since Elijah was becoming old he went out to seek out someone who would be able to take over his position he found Elisha. The next part talks about Elisha’s success. After that it then goes on to talk about the End of the Omrid Dynasty as well as the end of Israel and Judah.

Following King James’s coronation in 1604, he began to receive requests to revise the bibles that were currently published in England. In the early 1600’s there were many bibles that contained errors, which made them corrupt. King James, who was a baptized Catholic but raised by Presbyterians, wanted a new translation that would “unite his fractured realm” (Nicolson, par. 1). He organized a group of revisers who created a new translation that was published in 1611, this translation was authorized and became known as the King James or KJV bible. The KJV affected society through its influence over government, divisions in

In analyzing the word “vanity,” most would like to believe that the term is referring to one being selfish prideful. Like a lot of humans tend to think, however, the term according to this part of the Old Testament means the emptiness one feels within their life when he or she is apart from God. For example, when reading the book of Ecclesiastes Solomon wants his audience to see his frustration, sin, and emptiness as a reflection. The thought addresses the way Solomon life had become since he has not chosen to make God first in his lifestyle. When we as humans tend to lean unto our understanding and do not stay the course, often far too many times people tend to stray away from the path that God has bestowed upon us making our journey even

The authors of the textbook intend chapter one to be a baseline or at least a starting point for scholars that are possibly studying the New Testament for the first time. The stated “aim” of the chapter is “to provide enough of a framework to make the rest of this textbook, and a lot of other books on the New Testament, a little easier to understand.” (23) Highlighted in the chapter are some of the more common criticisms used by scholars today (e.g., form criticism, redaction criticism, textual criticism, and historical criticism, just to name a few), along with some of the key figures throughout history that have utilized such criticisms to help shape scholarly study of the New Testament canon.

The first part of the book begins with the birth of Samuel and how he became a prophet of God. The Israelites then asked Samuel to appoint a king like all other peoples. Samuel asked God and Samuel led the new king of Israel, Saul. But Saul was dishonest and sin against God by disobeying the commandments. Samuel confronts Saul and let him know that soon another king will be appointed by God (Min, 4:48). God leads Samuel to David, a shepherd but with an unshakeable faith to God. Saul decides to kill David and flees for long. Samuel 1 book concludes with the death of Saul in battle against the Philistines.

In the book of Joshua, the first four chapters are the leading events to the preparation to take the land, and in chapter five the preparation begins. Chapters six through twelve focus on the battles and actual conquest of the land. In the battles, Jericho was the first city to fall, Israel was defeated, and Joshua and his army made a treaty with the Gibeonities, and finally the battle of Jerusalem were won with help by the

“Instead of looking at books and pictures about the New Testament, I looked at the New Testament. There I found an account, not in the least of a person with his hair parted in the middle or his hands clasped in appeal, but of an extraordinary being with lips of thunder and acts of lurid decision, flinging down tables, casting out devils, passing with the wild secrecy of the wind from mountain isolation to a sort of dreadful demagogy; a being who often acted like an angry god — and always like a god.” (271)

In Exodus 1-3; 7-12; 14; 19-20:21, Moses is the chosen one by God to save the Israelites by taking them out of Egypt. Moses was a Hebrew who was thrown in the Nile River in a basket as a baby and was named and saved by the Pharaoh’s daughter. The Israelites were multiplying and kept growing strong therefore, they became oppressed by the Egyptians with forced labor and selective birth. Moses received a sign by God that his mission was to save the Israelites. Moses does so by doing what God told him and his brother Aaron to do. Finally, the Israelites were set free and got ready for the third day when God appeared and told them the Ten Commandments and