The downfall of Solomon

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...

 

I Kings 9  (God speaks to Solomon)

 

3 And the LORD said unto him, I have heard thy prayer and thy supplication, that thou hast made before ME: I have hallowed this house, which thou hast built, to put MY name there for ever; and MINE eyes and MINE heart shall be there perpetually.

 

4 And if thou wilt walk before ME, as David thy father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded thee, and wilt keep MY statutes and MY judgments:

 

5 Then I will establish the throne of thy kingdom upon Israel for ever, as I promised to David thy father, saying, There shall not fail thee a man upon the throne of Israel.

 

6 But if ye shall at all turn from following ME, ye or your children, and will not keep MY commandments and MY statutes which I have set before you, but go and serve other gods, and worship them:

 

7 Then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed for MY name, will I cast out of MY sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all people:

 

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8 And at this house, which is high, every one that passeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why hath the LORD done thus unto this land, and to this house?

 

9 And they shall answer, Because they forsook the LORD their God, who brought forth their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and have taken hold upon other gods, and have worshipped them, and served them: therefore hath the LORD brought upon them all this evil.

 

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I Kings 11

 

1 But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites;

 

2 Of the nations concerning which the LORD said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall not go in to them, neither shall they come in unto you: for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods: Solomon clave unto these in love.

 

3 And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines: and his wives turned away his heart.

 

4 For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his heart after other gods: and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God, as was the heart of David his father.

 

5 For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.

 

6 And Solomon did evil in the sight of the LORD, and went not fully after the LORD, as did David his father.

 

7 Then did Solomon build an high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, in the hill that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the abomination of the children of Ammon.

 

8 And likewise did he for all his strange wives, which burnt incense and sacrificed unto their gods.

 

9 And the LORD was angry with Solomon, because his heart was turned from the LORD God of Israel, which had appeared unto him twice,

 

10 And had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not go after other gods: but he kept not that which the LORD commanded.

 

11 Wherefore the LORD said unto Solomon, Forasmuch as this is done of thee, and thou hast not kept MY covenant and MY statutes, which I have commanded thee, I will surely rend the kingdom from thee, and will give it to thy servant.

 

12 Notwithstanding in thy days I will not do it for David thy father's sake: but I will rend it out of the hand of thy son.

 

13  Howbeit I will not rend away all the kingdom; but will give one tribe to thy son for David MY servant's sake, and for Jerusalem's sake which I have chosen.

 

14 And the LORD stirred up an adversary unto Solomon, Hadad the Edomite: he was of the king's seed in Edom.

 

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