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United Kingdom – Part 2Lesson 14

I Kings 11; II Chronicles 9:29-31

Review

• Kingdom continues in peace & prosperity

• Solomon’s expansion and wealth

• Foreigners visit to experience Solomon’s wisdom and see his wealth

Solomon Forsake’s God

• God said, “Do not intermarry...they will turn your hearts away to other gods.” Deut 7:3-4• Solomon married Egyptians, Moabites,

Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, & Hittites

• They turned his heart away

• He worships Chemosh–Moab, Molech–Ammonites, Ashtoreth – Sidonians

Solomon Forsake’s God

• God speaks to him again• Because you turned away I am taking the

kingdom away from you

• But, because of David it will not happen in your lifetime

• It will be taken from your son, but not all of it, because of David and because of Jerusalem

Solomon Forsake’s God

• Blessings cease and adversaries increase• Hadad – Edom in the south

• Rezon – Damascus

• Solomon places Jeroboam in charge of labor of Ephraim & Manasseh• Ahijah’s prophecy

• Solomon tries to kill Jeroboam

Thoughts

• Opportunity lost• Why did God give them kings?

• Turned away as he got older

• Commandments from hundreds of years earlier were violated Deut 17:14-20

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