Posted on 02/12/2018 7:53:19 AM PST by Salvation
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For all have sinned...
1 Kings 11:6
So Solomon did evil in the eyes of the Lord; he did not follow the Lord completely, as David his father had done.
David had his own, similar, transgression(s)...
But David repented, right?
But what happened to Solomon’s wisdom? Did it go the way of dementia (modern word to fit the situation.)?
The key distinction seems to be that David did not worship idols.
The key distinction seems to be that David did not worship idols.
I believe the big difference between the two was that David repented of his sins. Solomon bought into his celebrity, and although the wisest man ever, fell prey to believing that he did it on his own.
"For the wages of sin is death . . ."
If ignorance is bliss what good is wisdom? Solomon was unchecked in his power. No restraints upon him. Lust filled his heart. Then greed and envy did the rest. This is a sad sad story. Just think of the good he could have done for his nation. He was witness to the trainwreck of his own design. What a terrible way to meet death.
That could very well have happened.
**Solomon was unchecked in his power. No restraints upon him. Lust filled his heart. Then greed and envy did the rest.**
I agree that power was at the root of his troubles — rather the misuse of power. And that turned into greed (more gold) and envy (got to worship the gods of my wives — lest they turn against me.) But what I wrote is more a fear of his wives rather than envy. It would have been best for him to have a “Godly fear.”
It was human wisdom to lead his people . It was not Godly wisdom. I would argue that he never did desire to follow the Lord and it progressively was displayed.
Solomon did not see that anything he had done was wrong and refused to repent even when God Himself rebuked him.
That takes a very special kind of stupid.
You can brush off rebukes from other people, even from prophets, but when God comes down and tells you that you are messing up most people would listen.
article omits that, in the Bible, Solomon in addition to his being a prototype of a bad king,is also associated with ‘666’
I read pagan gods, but I did not see the devil in his worship. Care to clarify with a quote from the Bible?
David was never described as an ‘abomination of desolation’.
Solomon also sold his soul for a golden tribute of 666 talents per year.
David also lived in misery after he “moved” Uriah to the front lines after David failed to convince Uriah to come back and have relations with Bathsheba to cover up an adulterous pregnancy.
God took away (Died at an young age) David’s first born of Bathsheba as a punishment for Uriah and then David’s oldest son Amnon raped David’s daughter Tamar (Amnon half-sister, lol). To make matters worse, David’s son Absalom ran a train on his dad’s concubines and several of David’s wives. Then started a civil war against his dad.
Why do people think God did not have justice for Uriah? God is perfect in justice, love, and forgiveness. He dispenses all and David, although spiritually forgiven because he repented and accepted his misery that caused was humble for it.
Also the only reason God let David stay married to Bathsheba was because Uriah was dead. Had Uriah lived, David was in line to face the punishment for adultery. God pretty much made David’s life a living hell because justice called for that. The people of Israel suffered due to David’s sin.
David’s son Nathan, the most humble and Spiritual one is where the line of Mary came from.
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