How the Mighty Fall

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How the Mighty Fall

• Fallen Heroes of the Old Testament
• SOLOMON

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Davids Family
WIVES
CHILDREN
Michal (Sauls Daughter)
Ahinoam ----------------------------------------1.
Amnon
Abigal (Nabals Widow)-----------------------2.
Chileab (Daniel)
Hebron
Maacah (Daughter of King of Geshur) ---3.
Absalom Tamar
Haggith-------------------------------------------
4. Adonijah
Abital -------------------------------------------
--5. Shephatiah
Eglah -------------------------------------------
--6. Ithream
Boaz
Obed
Jesse
DAVID
Ruth
Bathsheba (Uriahs Wife) -------------------
Jerusalem
Other Wives and Concubines
11. Ibhar 12. Elishua (Elisama) 13. Eliphelet
(Elpelet)
14. Nogah 15. Nepheg 16. Japhia
17. Elishama 18. Eliada (Beeliada) 19. Eliphelet
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Davids Commission to Solomon2 Kings 21-4
1 As David's time to die drew near, he charged
Solomon his son, saying, 2 "I am going the way
of all the earth. Be strong, therefore, and show
yourself a man. 3 "Keep the charge of the Lord
your God, to walk in His ways, to keep His
statutes, His commandments, His ordinances, and
His testimonies, according to what is written in
the Law of Moses, that you may succeed in all
that you do and wherever you turn, 4 so that the
Lord may carry out His promise which He spoke
concerning me, saying, 'If your sons are careful
of their way, to walk before Me in truth with all
their heart and with all their soul, you shall
not lack a man on the throne of Israel.'
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1 Kings 31-4A Dynasty is Launched
1 Then Solomon formed a marriage alliance with
Pharaoh king of Egypt, and took Pharaoh's
daughter and brought her to the city of David
until he had finished building his own house and
the house of the Lord and the wall around
Jerusalem. 2 The people were still sacrificing
on the high places, because there was no house
built for the name of the Lord until those days.
3 Now Solomon loved the Lord, walking in the
statutes of his father David, except he
sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.
4 The king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there,
for that was the great high place Solomon
offered a thousand burnt offerings on that altar.
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1 Kings 35-9Solomons Prayer
5 In Gibeon the Lord appeared to Solomon in a
dream at night and God said, "Ask what you wish
me to give you." 6 Then Solomon said, "You have
shown great loving kindness to Your servant David
my father, according as he walked before You in
truth and righteousness and uprightness of heart
toward You and You have reserved for him this
great loving kindness, that You have given him a
son to sit on his throne, as it is this day. 7
"Now, O Lord my God, You have made Your servant
king in place of my father David, yet I am but a
little child I do not know how to go out or come
in. 8 "Your servant is in the midst of Your
people which You have chosen, a great people who
are too many to be numbered or counted. 9 "So
give your servant an understanding heart to judge
Your people to discern between good and evil. For
who is able to judge this great people of Yours?"
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1 Kings 310-15Gods Response
It was pleasing in the sight of the Lord that
Solomon had asked this thing. 11 God said to
him, "Because you have asked this thing and have
not asked for yourself long life, nor have asked
riches for yourself, nor have you asked for the
life of your enemies, but have asked for yourself
discernment to understand justice, 12 behold, I
have done according to your words. Behold, I have
given you a wise and discerning heart, so that
there has been no one like you before you, nor
shall one like you arise after you. 13 "I have
also given you what you have not asked, both
riches and honor, so that there will not be any
among the kings like you all your days. 14 "IF
you walk in My ways, keeping My statutes and
commandments, as your father David walked, THEN I
will prolong your days." 15 Then Solomon awoke,
and behold, it was a dream.
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1 Kings 316Two Women
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Solomons Wisdom
Now God gave Solomon wisdom and very great
discernment and breadth of mind, like the sand
that is on the seashore. 30 Solomon's wisdom
surpassed the wisdom of all the sons of the east
and all the wisdom of Egypt. 31 For he was wiser
than all men, than Ethan the Ezrahite, Heman,
Calcol and Darda, the sons of Mahol and his fame
was known in all the surrounding nations. 32 He
also spoke 3,000 proverbs, and his songs were
1,005. 33 He spoke of trees, from the cedar that
is in Lebanon even to the hyssop that grows on
the wall he spoke also of animals and birds and
creeping things and fish. Men came from all
peoples to hear the wisdom of Solomon, from all
the kings of the earth who had heard of his
wisdom.
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1 Kings 106-8Queen of Sheba
"It was a true report which I heard in my own
land about your words and your wisdom.
"Nevertheless I did not believe the reports,
until I came and my eyes had seen it. And behold,
the half was not told me. You exceed in wisdom
and prosperity the report which I heard. "How
blessed are your men, how blessed are these your
servants who stand before you continually and
hear your wisdom.
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1 Kings 1023-24Greater Than All of the Kings on
Earth
So King Solomon became greater than all the kings
of the earth in riches and in wisdom. All the
earth was seeking the presence of Solomon, to
hear his wisdom which God had put in his heart.
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Wealth Beyond Imagination
I have also given you what you have not asked,
both riches and honor, so that there will not be
any among the kings like you all your days.
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1 Kings 4One Days Provision for Solomons Court

• 30 kors of fine flour (kor about what a donkey
  could carry on its back -- about 6½ bushels)
• 60 kors of meal
• 23 fat oxen
• 20 pasture feed oxen
• 100 sheep
• Plus deer, gazelles, roebucks, and fattened fowl

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1 Kings 10Some Very Nice Dinner Ware

• 666 talents of gold/year
• All drinking and eating vessels were pure gold

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1 Kings 101-4The Beginning of the End
1 Now King Solomon loved many foreign women along
with the daughter of Pharaoh Moabite, Ammonite,
Edomite, Sidonian, and Hittite women, 2 from the
nations concerning which the Lord had said to the
sons of Israel, "You shall not associate with
them, nor shall they associate with you, for they
will surely turn your heart away after their
gods. " Solomon held fast to these in love. 3 He
had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three
hundred concubines, and his wives turned his
heart away. 4 For when Solomon was old, his
wives turned his heart away after other gods and
his heart was not wholly devoted to the Lord his
God, as the heart of David his father had been.
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Deuteronomy 73-4Dire Warning
Furthermore, you shall not intermarry with them
you shall not give your daughters to their sons,
nor shall you take their daughters for your sons.
"For they will turn your sons away from
following Me to serve other gods then the anger
of the Lord will be kindled against you and He
will quickly destroy you.
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1 Kings 101-4The Beginning of the End
1 Now King Solomon loved many foreign women along
with the daughter of Pharaoh Moabite, Ammonite,
Edomite, Sidonian, and Hittite women, 2 from the
nations concerning which the Lord had said to the
sons of Israel, "You shall not associate with
them, nor shall they associate with you, for they
will surely turn your heart away after their
gods. " Solomon held fast to these in love. 3 He
had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three
hundred concubines, and his wives turned his
heart away. 4 For when Solomon was old, his
wives turned his heart away after other gods and
his heart was not wholly devoted to the Lord his
God, as the heart of David his father had been.
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Nehemiah 1323-27Dont Be Like Solomon!
23 In those days I also saw that the Jews had
married women from Ashdod, Ammon and Moab. 24 As
for their children, half spoke in the language of
Ashdod, and none of them was able to speak the
language of Judah, but the language of his own
people. 25 So I contended with them and cursed
them and struck some of them and pulled out their
hair, and made them swear by God, "You shall not
give your daughters to their sons, nor take of
their daughters for your sons or for yourselves.
26 "Did not Solomon king of Israel sin regarding
these things? Yet among the many nations there
was no king like him, and he was loved by his
God, and God made him king over all Israel
nevertheless the foreign women caused even him to
sin. 27 "Do we then hear about you that you have
committed all this great evil by acting
unfaithfully against our God by marrying foreign
women?"
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1 Kings 111Solomons Wives

• Egyptian (Daughter of the Pharaoh
• Moabite -- Descendants of Lot
• Ammonite -- Descendants of Lot
• Edomite -- Descendants of Esau
• Sidonian (Phoenicians)
• Hittite (Syrian)

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1 Kings 115-6One Thing Leads to Another
For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of
the Sidonians and after Milcom the detestable
idol of the Ammonites. 6 Solomon did what was
evil in the sight of the Lord, and did not follow
the Lord fully, as David his father had done.
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1 Kings 116Evil in the Sight of the Lord

• 1 Kings 1526, 34
• 1 Kings 1619, 25, 30
• 1 Kings 2252
• 2 Kings 32
• 2 Kings 818
• 2 Kings 132

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1 Kings 114 and 6Not Like Father, Like Son
114 For when Solomon was old, his wives turned
his heart away after other gods and his heart
was not wholly devoted to the Lord his God, as
the heart of David his father had been. 11 6
Solomon did what was evil in the sight of the
Lord, and did not follow the Lord fully, as David
his father had done.
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1 Kings 117-8One Thing Leads to Another
7 Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the
detestable idol of Moab, on the mountain which is
east of Jerusalem, and for Molech the detestable
idol of the sons of Ammon. 8 Thus also he did
for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and
sacrificed to their gods.
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Deuteronomy 1716-17Rules for Kings
"When you enter the land which the Lord your God
gives you, and you possess it and live in it, and
you say, 'I will set a king over me like all the
nations who are around me,' 15 you shall surely
set a king over you whom the Lord your God
chooses, one from among your countrymen you shall
set as king over yourselves you may not put a
foreigner over yourselves who is not your
countryman. 16 "Moreover, he shall not multiply
horses for himself, nor shall he cause the people
to return to Egypt to multiply horses, since the
Lord has said to you, 'You shall never again
return that way.' 17 "He shall not multiply
wives for himself, or else his heart will turn
away nor shall he greatly increase silver and
gold for himself. 18 "Now it shall come about
when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, he
shall write for himself a copy of this law on a
scroll in the presence of the Levitical priests.
19 "It shall be with him and he shall read it
all the days of his life, that he may learn to
fear the Lord his God, by carefully observing all
the words of this law and these statutes, 20
that his heart may not be lifted up above his
countrymen and that he may not turn aside from
the commandment, to the right or the left, so
that he and his sons may continue long in his
kingdom in the midst of Israel.
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Gods Promises and Warnings
IF, THEN
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How Could This Possibly Happen?

• He didnt see the warnings
• He felt immune, after all, he was pretty
  cool.

We fool ourselves by the smallness of our
surrenders.
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1 Kings 1023Im Above It All
King Solomon became greater than all of the
kings of the earth in riches and wisdom.
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How Could This Possibly Happen?

• He didnt see the warnings
• He felt immune, after all, he was pretty
  cool.

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Proverbs 308-9Lord, Please Bless Me, But Not
Too Much
Keep deception and lies far from me, Give me
neither poverty nor riches Feed me with the food
that is my portion, 9 That I not be full and deny
You and say, "Who is the Lord?" Or that I not be
in want and steal, and profane the name of my
God.
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Oliver GoldsmithThe Deserted Village
Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey,
Where wealth accumulates, and men decay
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Psalm 206-7 Psalm 3316-20Father Knows Best
Now I know that the Lord saves His anointed He
will answer him from His holy heaven With the
saving strength of His right hand. Some boast in
chariots and some in horses, But we will boast in
the name of the Lord, our God. (Psalm 20)
The king is not saved by a mighty army A warrior
is not delivered by great strength. A horse is a
false hope for victory Nor does it deliver
anyone by its great strength. Behold, the eye of
the Lord is on those who fear Him, On those who
hope for His loving kindness, to deliver their
soul from death And to keep them alive in famine.
Our soul waits for the Lord He is our help and
our shield. (Psalm 33)
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How Could This Possibly Happen?

• He didnt see the warnings
• He felt immune, after all, he was pretty
  cool.
• He didnt believe in the warnings

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Sooner or Later, the Foundation Matters
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1 Kings 114 and 6Not Like Father, Like Son
114 For when Solomon was old, his wives turned
his heart away after other gods and his heart
was not wholly devoted to the Lord his God, as
the heart of David his father had been. 11 6
Solomon did what was evil in the sight of the
Lord, and did not follow the Lord fully, as David
his father had done.
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Ecclesiastes 1213-14My Conclusions
The conclusion, when all has been heard, is
fear God and keep His commandments, because this
applies to every person. For God will bring every
act to judgment, everything which is hidden,
whether it is good or evil.
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1 Corinthians 10 11-12
Now these things happened to them as an example,
and they were written for our instruction, upon
whom the ends of the ages have come. Therefore
let him who thinks he stands take heed that he
does not fall.
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