Tag: Solomon

TODAY’S SPECIAL: Ecclesiastes 12:1-7TO CHEW ON: "Remember your creator in the days of your youth, before the days of trouble come and the years approach when you will say, 'I find no pleasure in them.'” Ecclesiastes 12:1 How sad it is to be too late. - You come to dinner hungry and find the food has...

TODAY’S SPECIAL: 1 Kings 11:26-40 TO CHEW ON: "Then he said to Jeroboam, 'Take ten pieces for yourself, for this is what the Lord, the God if Israel, says: "See I am going to tear the kingdom out of Solomon’s hands and give you ten tribes." ’ ” 1 Kings 11:31 Solomon ruled for many years. Though God ...

TODAY’S SPECIAL: Proverbs 2:1-15 TO CHEW ON: "For the Lord gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding." Proverbs 2:6 In the Bible book of Proverbs we have many of Solomon’s wise sayings. They help us learn the wise thing to do in all kinds of times and places. Many proverbs are ab...

TODAY’S SPECIAL: 2 Chronicles 5:1-14 TO CHEW ON: "Then the temple of the Lord was filled with the cloud, and the priests could not perform their service because of the cloud, for the glory of the Lord filled the temple of God." 2 Chronicles 5:13b,14 At last the temple was finished. It was time to mo...

TODAY’S SPECIAL: 1 Kings 3:5-15 TO CHEW ON: "The Lord was pleased that Solomon had asked for this." 1 Kings 3:10 Suppose one day God came to you and said, “Ask for whatever you want me to give you.” What would you ask for?This very thing happened to young Solomon. It was in the beginning of his reig...

TODAY’S SPECIAL: 2 Chronicles 7:11-22 TO CHEW ON: "If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land." 2 Chronicles 7:14 After Solomon had finished the...

TODAY’S SPECIAL: Proverbs 10:18-21, 31-32 TO CHEW ON: The lips of the righteous know what finds favor, but the mouth of the wicked only what is perverse. Proverbs 10:32 Solomon wrote many proverbs about speech. He knew that no matter how beautiful a person was, or how much money they had, or what ki...

TODAY’S SPECIAL: 1 Kings 4:29-34 TO CHEW ON: "He spoke about plant life, from the cedar of Lebanon to the hyssop that grows out of walls. He also spoke about animals and birds, reptiles and fish." 1 Kings 4:33 We can learn things about people in many ways. One of them is by looking at what they’ve m...

TODAY’S SPECIAL: 1 Chronicles 28:4-12 TO CHEW ON: “And you my son Solomon, acknowledge the God of your father and serve him with wholehearted devotion and with a willing mind, for the Lord searches every heart and understands every desire and every thought. If you seek him, he will be found by you; ...

TODAY’S SPECIAL: I Kings 5:1-7 TO CHEW ON: "I intend, therefore, to build a temple for the Name of the Lord my God as the Lord told my father, David, when he said, 'Your son whom I will put on the throne in your place will build the temple for my name.'” 1 Kings 5:5 When Solomon had been king for fo...

TODAY’S SPECIAL: 1 Kings 11:1-11 TO CHEW ON: "Although he had forbidden Solomon to follow other gods, Solomon did not keep the Lord’s command. So the Lord said to Solomon, 'Since this is your attitude and you have not kept my covenant and my decrees which I commanded you, I will most certainly tear ...

TODAY’S SPECIAL: Ecclesiastes 3:1-15 TO CHEW ON: "He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end." Ecclesiastes 3:11From earliest times, thinking people have asked hard questions. Questions like...