II
Chronicles 8 & 9 – Accomplishments of Solomon
The
building of the temple was a long project. It took half of Solomon’s reign to
build it. He put his own people in the army
and places of leadership, while the menial tasks were given to the descendants
of the Canaanites, the original owners of the land, who had not been
exterminated.
Solomon
built the house for his wife, Pharoah’s daughter outside of the city of David.
He celebrated the feasts and appointed the priests and Levites to their
positions just as David had planned it.
Chapter
9
Solomon’s
most important accomplishment was the construction of the temple. Israel was to
go up to Jerusalem to the temple and invite the world to come with her to
worship.
The
church today is to take the gospel to the world, and Israel was to invite the
world to come and share the revelation of God in the temple. Israel was to bear
witness to the living and true God as a nation in a world of many gods.
Today
the church is to bear witness to a resurrection, and the living Savior, as
individuals to all the nations in a world of atheism.
The
Queen of Sheba is a representative of the sons of Ham. She traveled far to see
what she did not believe what was true. Solomon told her the secret of his
kingdom. He told her that God had given him wisdom. He told her that the temple
was their approach to God because God had said it was there He would meet with
his people. It seems that the burnt offering was what impressed her the most. Through
that she came to know the true and living God.
This
chapter ends with Solomon dying and being buried in the city of David his
father.
Please
read the chapter listed so that you can understand God’s Word better.
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J.
Vernon McGee Commentary and New King James Bible.
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