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2. JEHOVAH APPEARS TO SOLOMON HIS PRAYER AND THE ANSWER
CHAPTER 3
_ 1. Affinity with Pharaoh and Pharaoh's daughter (1 Kings 3:1)_
2. Solomon loved the LORD (1 Kings 3:2)
3. Jehovah appears to Sol...
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1 KINGS 3:1 TO 1 KINGS 4:34. EARLY DAYS, REIGN, AND WISDOM OF SOLOMON.
The sources of this section are various, and the arrangement of the
narrative in the LXX should be noticed. There are (_a_) a sta...
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CHILD. son.
OVERLAID. One of the ten deaths occasioned by women. See note on
Judges 4:21....
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_overlaid it_ And so smothered it, while both mother and child were
asleep....
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THEN CAME THERE TWO WOMEN, &C.— See Judges 2:1 respecting the word
זנות _zonoth_ rendered _harlots._ Solomon knew at once, that the
only sign whereby to discover the true mother, would be her affectio...
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B. THE DEMONSTRATION OF HIS Wisdom 3:16-28
TRANSLATION
(16) Then two women, harlots, came unto the king, and stood before
him. (17) And the one woman said, O my lord the king, I and this woman
were s...
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SOLOMON'S CHOICE
This chapter relates how Solomon, out of various gifts offered to him
by the Almighty, chose wisdom, and adds an illustration of the use he
made of the gift with which he was endowed...
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GOD’S LESSONS FROM HISTORY
1 KINGS
_PHILIP SMITH_
CHAPTER 3
GOD SPEAKS TO SOLOMON
V1 Solomon made an agreement with Pharaoh, king of Egypt. And Solomon
married Pharaoh’s daughter. Solomon brough...
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וַ יָּ֛מָת בֶּן ־הָ אִשָּׁ֥ה הַ זֹּ֖את
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THE BOY-KING'S WISDOM
1 Kings 3:1
"An oracle is upon the lips of a king."- Proverbs 16:10 (Hebrews).
"A king that sitteth on the throne of judgment scattereth away all
evil with his eye."- Proverbs...
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BREAKING THREE COMMANDMENTS
1 Kings 21:1; 1 Kings 1:1; 1 Kings 2:1; 1 Kings 3:1;...
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A DISCERNING JUDGMENT
1 Kings 3:16
The incident gave convincing proof of the gift of wisdom. This is the
most esteemed endowment of an Eastern potentate, who is called upon to
arbitrate in cases that...
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The first brief paragraph in this chapter reveals at once Solomon's
strength and weakness. He was strong, for he loved the Lord and walked
in the statutes of his father David. However, there was the o...
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_Him. This she suspected to be the case. They did not then place
infants in the cradle, but let them sleep in their bosoms. (Calmet)_...
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(16) В¶ Then came there two women, that were harlots, unto the king,
and stood before him. (17) And the one woman said, O my lord, I and
this woman dwell in one house; and I was delivered of a child w...
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The books of First and Second Samuel show us the failure of the
priesthood, and, in consequence, when a state of evident shame and
dishonour overspread the face of Israel, the heart of the people
desi...
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But there is another element in the history of the king of glory, in
which he oversteps the limits of the king of Israel's legitimate
position; he allies himself with the Gentiles, and marries Pharaoh...
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AND THIS WOMAN'S CHILD DIED IN THE NIGHT,.... Whether the same night
following the day it was born is not certain;
BECAUSE SHE OVERLAID IT; or laid upon it, being heavy through sleep,
and not knowing...
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_On the third day this woman was delivered also_ So that the children
could not be distinguished by their age. _No stranger was with us in
the house_ Therefore there was no witness on either side; and...
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1 Solomon marieth Pharaohs daughter.
2 Hie places being in vse, Solomon sacrificeth at Gibeon.
5 Solomon at Gibeon, in the choice which God gaue him, preferring
wisedome, obtaineth wisedome, riches,...
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And this woman's child died in the night, because she overlaid it,
unwittingly pressed it to death in her sleep....
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Solomon's wise Decision...
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SOLOMON RECEIVES WISDOM FROM GOD
(vs.1-15)
However, early in Solomon's reign he slipped into the snare of making
a treaty with the king of Egypt. Israel had before escaped from the
bondage of Egypt,...
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16-28 An instance of Solomon's wisdom is given. Notice the difficulty
of the case. To find out the true mother, he could not try which the
child loved best, and therefore tried which loved the child...
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And so smothered it; which she justly conjectures, because there were
evidences of that kind of death, but no appearance of any other cause
thereof....
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1 Kings 3:19 womans H802 son H1121 died H4191 (H8799) night H3915 lay
H7901 (H8804)...
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CONTENTS: Alliance of Solomon and Pharoah. Marriage with Pharoah's
daughter. Loses at Gibeon. Solomon's prayer. His wisdom.
CHARACTERS: God, Solomon, two women.
CONCLUSION: The wisdom of God is laid...
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1 Kings 3:1. _Solomon took Pharaoh's daughter._ It would appear from
the 45th Psalm, which the rabbins with one consent affirm, was the
nuptial ode for this marriage, that David had made arrangements...
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_Then came there two women._
THE TRUE MOTHER
I. That sin produces suffering. The two women who came for judgment to
Solomon were harlots; and the offsprings of their impurity were the
means by which...
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1 KINGS—NOTE ON 1 KINGS 3:1 Although Solomon has displayed a worldly
kind of wisdom in his treatment of those who were a threat to him (1
Kings 2:6,...
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CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.—
1 Kings 3:16. HARLOTS—The Rabbins derive זנוֹת from זוּן,
to feed, nourish; and the Targumist translates the word here, and in
Joshua 2:1, by פונדקן, pundekon, _hoste...
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EXPOSITION
IN this section we see how remarkably the gracious promise of Gibeon
(1 Kings 3:12) was fulfilled. The "understanding to discern judgment"
has been richly bestowed. And this, no doubt, is t...
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Now Solomon begins the gathering of wives of which it seemed had no
end.
He made an affinity with the Pharaoh of Egypt, and he took the
Pharaoh's daughter, and brought her to the city of David, until...
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Overlaid it — And so smothered it: which she justly conjectures,
because there were evidences of that kind of death, but no appearance
of any other cause thereof....