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WEEK 8
TOPIC: WISDOM OF SOLOMON (THEME 8: MAKING DECISIONS AS A CHRISTIAN)
CONTENT:
- Solomon’s request for wisdom from God.
- How Solomon applied his wisdom.
- Building the temple and its dedication.
Unwise decisions of Solomon and Rehoboam.
- Solomon’s unwise decision 1 kings 9: 15-23; 11: 1-13.
- Rehoboam’s unwise decision and its consequences 1 kings 12: 1-20
Sub-Topic 1: SOLOMON’S REQUEST FOR WISDOM FROM GOD 1 KINGS 3: 3-15.
David commissioned Solomon before his death as King. At Gibeon, Solomon offered a thousand burnt offerings on the altar before God. While asleep in Gibeon, God appeared to him and asked him whatever he wanted. Solomon thanked God for His kind dealings with his father and thereafter requested wisdom to judge the people. God promised to give him wisdom alongside riches, long life and honour so that he would be the wisest and richest king that ever lived if he would keep His commandments.
Sub-Topic 2: HOW SOLOMON APPLIED HIS WISDOM 1 KING 3:16-23, 4: 29-34.
During the reign of Solomon, two harlots came to him claiming the same child as one of them slept over her child while both were asleep.
Solomon called on one of his guards to slice the living child into two after much argument between the two harlots. One of the harlots was shouting and urged the king to slice the child while the real mother said the king should not. She persuaded, the child be given her friend, that the child would know its mother when grown. The king told his guard to give the Child to the woman that desires the child be spared. The news got to everyone and they wondered at Solomon’s wisdom.
Solomon became wiser than all the famous men – Ethan the Ezrahite, Heman, Calcol and Darda the son of Mahol and the wisest men of Egypt and the east. He was so versatile that he uttered three thousand proverbs, sang one thousand and five songs, spoke of trees, beasts, birds, reptiles and fish.
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