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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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STATUTES OF DAVID. Contrast "the statutes of Omri" (Micah 6:16),
and"statutes of the heathen" (2 Kings 17:8).
HIGH PLACES. Not necessarily idolatrous (see note on 1 Kings 3:2, and
compare...
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1 Kings 3:1-4. Solomon marries Pharaoh's daughter. Sacrifices still
offered on the high places. Solomon's sacrifice at Gibeon (2
Chronicles 1:3)
At the beginning of this Chapter the LXX. inserts a lo...
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_walking in the statutes of David his father_ These are the
observances which David had enjoined in 1 Kings 2:3. There they are
called -the charge of the Lord," and are here named -of David,"
because...
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_AND SOLOMON LOVED THE LORD, WALKING IN THE STATUTES OF DAVID HIS
FATHER: ONLY HE SACRIFICED AND BURNT INCENSE IN HIGH PLACES._
Solomon loved the Lord. This declaration, illustrated by what
follows,...
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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 יֶּאֱהַ֤ב שְׁלֹמֹה֙ אֶת ־יְהוָ֔ה
לָ לֶ֕כֶת
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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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THE YOUNG KING'S WISE CHOICE
1 Kings 3:1
The chapter opens doubtfully. The affinity with Pharaoh, and the two
_onlys_ of 1 Kings 3:2 are not promising. See Deuteronomy 12:13. Yet
there were hopeful f...
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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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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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And Solomon loved the LORD, walking in the statutes of David his (c)
father: only he sacrificed and burnt incense in high places.
(c) For his father had commanded him to obey the Lord and walk in his...
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_Only, &c. Which David had not done, though it was lawful. (Pineda)
--- Yet we read that he offered victims on Sion, &c., 2 Kings vi. 18.
(Haydock)_...
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(3) And Solomon loved the LORD, walking in the statutes of David his
father: only he sacrificed and burnt incense in high places.
This is a beautiful, but short account of Solomon. He loved the Lord....
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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 Solomon loved the LORD, walking in the statutes of David his
father: only he sacrificed and burnt incense in high places.
Ver. 3. _And Solomon loved, the Lord._] Being first loved by him, his
Jed...
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_And Solomon loved_ Or, _Yet he loved, the Lord_ Although he
miscarried in the matter of high places, yet, in the general, his
heart was right with God. _Walking in the statutes_ According to the
stat...
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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 Solomon loved the Lord, walking in the statutes of David, his
father, in all the precepts of the covenant; ONLY HE SACRIFICED AND
BURNED INCENSE IN HIGH PLACES, that having become the custom and n...
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SOLOMON AT GIBEON...
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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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1-4 He that loved the Lord, should, for his sake, have fixed his love
upon one of the Lord's people. Solomon was a wise man, a rich man, a
great man; yet the brightest praise of him, is that which is...
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AND, or, _yet_, although he mistook and miscarried himself in the
matter of high places, yet in the general his heart was right with
God, and he both _loved_ him with inward affection, and walked with...
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1 Kings 3:3 Solomon H8010 loved H157 (H8799) LORD H3068 walking H3212
(H8800) statutes H2708 David H1...
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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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_Solomon loved the Lord._
LOVE BEGETS LOVE
It is a process of induction. Put a piece of iron in the presence of
an electrified body, and that piece of iron for a time becomes
electrified. It is chang...
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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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THE RULE OF WISDOM
CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.—
1 Kings 3:1. PHARAOH, KING OF EGYPT—Probably Vaphres, but Winer
suggests Psusennes. An alliance with so mighty a royal house shows
that the Hebrew...
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EXPOSITION
THE BEGINNING OF SOLOMON'S REIGN.—In the preceding chapter we have
seen the establishment of Solomon's rule (verse 46) by the removal of
internal foes, _i.e; _of disaffected and rebellious...
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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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1 Chronicles 28:8; 1 Chronicles 28:9; 1 Corinthians 8:3; 1 John 4:19;...
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Yet — Although he miscarried in the matter of high places, yet in
the general, his heart was right with God. Statutes — According to
the statutes or commands of God, which are here called the statutes...