This assignment's primary goal is founded solely on 1 Kings 1:9–9, a passage from the Bible. The bibliography section will include a description of each mentioned source. It is to provide the examiner, who will review this endeavor, with a broader perspective.
Given that this assignment is based on the biblical account of King Solomon and his wisdom, it provides more than just a project to be looked at; it also allows for the possibility of viewing it from the viewpoint of something that teaches us the moral values that King Solomon possessed.It also focuses upon the biblical account and is considered a high scholarly report due to the commentaries of the verses and the text of the biblical account. Most of the scriptures and quotes that are used have been interpreted in the form of the New American Standard Bible (NASB).
Moreover, this assignment will also shed light to the cultural and major historical period of the Solomonic Era. His reign on Israel and his religious and spiritual on look. Most importantly his connection with God.
Outline:
Solomon’s Building Project:
Preparation for building of the Temple
Building the temple
Building the Palace
The temple furnishings
Dedication of the Temple
The Lord’s response and warnings INTRODUCTION:
1 kings is the story where the history of Israel is narrated during period of Monarchy. It is a account of Solomon’s reign, the narrative relates to the way Solomon built a temple for God. the Lord appears to him again just like he did last time at Gibeon. He talks to him and says he has heard his prayers and he will consecrated the temple that according to him is his new house. And he shall put his name there forever.
He tells Solomon he will be as faithful as David was, Lord would make sure that his descendants will always keep the throne.
But he also warned if his children will step out their boundaries and fails to live to Lord’s wishes then Israel and both the temple will fall. He says it will be so much of disastrous site that when people will pass by the ruined temple they will be stunned and would question why did he let his temple and chosen people to have such a faith?
After everything was settled down King Solomon paid enormous payment to King Hiram in the form of chain of twenty cities for supplying golds, cedars and cypress for the temple he supplied
And he rightfully kept doing his duties.
Content
1king is a actually literary work and is called simply “Kings” in Hebrew tradition. The book is divided into two books that was introduced by the translators of the Septuagint i.e. the pre Christian Greek translation of the OT. This book subsequently was followed in Latin Vulgate (c.a.d.400) and there are few modern versions till the extend of none.
The book was divided into two sections of Hebrew manuscript during 1448. This book was perpetuated in later printed editions of the Hebrew text. The Kings was emphasized in a way that it shed lights into the relationship of these two works and was designated by both the Septuagint and the Latin Vulgate i.e. Septuagint: First Second, Third and Fourth Book of King-doms and Latin Vulgate: First, Second, Third and Fourth Kings respectively.
This book chronicles the era of Solomonic period relating his history as a Monarch, his rise under his own ministry and to his defeat at the hands of Babylonians. The book’s division into 1Kings and 2Kings has been made a considerably capricious but yet appropriate after the deaths of Ahab of the Northern Kingdom and Jesoshaphat of the Southern Kingdom.
This division accounts the reign of Ahaziah of Israel to the en Very little is known about the author. Although the Jews tradition credits Jarmiah, and a few today accepts it can be possible.
Whoever the author he was really clear he was familiar with the book of Deuteronomy-as were many Israel’s prophets. He also used variety of sources in scribbling the book. As far as three sources has been named
1. The book of the annals of King of Israel
2. The book of the annals of King Judah
3. The book of the annals of King Solomon
Although scholars have concluded that the three sources are to viewed as official court annals from the archives in Jerusalem and Samaria. 1 Kings chronicles make reference to a number of such writings.
It is most likely, for example, that for the ministries of Elijah and Elisha the author depended on a prophetic source (perhaps from the eighth century) that had drawn up an account of those two prophets in which they were already compared with M1,Kings presents the reader with abundant chronological data. Not only is the length of the reign of each king given, but during the period of the divided kingdom the beginning of the reign of each king is synchronized with the regional year of the ruling king in the opposite kingdom.
Often additional data, such as the age of the ruler at the time of his accession, are also provided.
The data that was derived from Assyrian records of the 853 BC is often ruled out as Ahab’s death and the year 841 as the year when Jehu begin to reign. These were the years when both Ahab and Jehu establishes contacts with Shalmaneser III who was from Assyria. These also can be given definite dates with the help of astronomical data that was based on Assyrian reference on solar eclipse.
With these fixed points, it is then possible to work both forward and backward in the lines of the kings of Israel and Judah to give dates for each king. By the same means it can be determined that the division of the kingdom occurred in 930, that Samaria fell to the Assyrians in 722–721 and that Jerusalem fell to the Babylonians in 586.oses and Joshua.d of 1 Kings.
The Lord’s response and warning:
When Solomon had finished building the temple of the Lord and the royal palace, and had achieved all he had desired to do, the Lord appeared to him a second time, as he had appeared to him at Gibeon. The Lord said to him:
“I have heard the prayer and plea you have made before me; I have consecrated this temple, which you have built, by putting my Name there forever. My eyes and my heart will always be there.
“As for you, if you walk before me faithfully with integrity of heart and uprightness, as David your father did, and do all I command and observe my decrees and laws, I will establish your royal throne over Israel forever, as I promised David your father when I said, ‘You shall never fail to have a successor on the throne of Israel.’
“But if you or your descendants turn away from me and do not observe the commands and decrees I have given you and go off to serve other gods and worship them, then I will cut off Israel from the land I have given them and will reject this temple I have consecrated for my Name. Israel will then become a byword and an object of ridicule among all peoples. This temple will become a heap of rubble. All who pass by will be appalled and will scoff and say, ‘Why has the Lord done such a thing to this land and to this temple?’ People will answer, ‘Because they have forsaken the Lord their God, who brought their ancestors out of Egypt, and have embraced other gods, worshiping and serving them—that is why the Lord brought all this disaster on them.”
At last the Solomonic kingdom fell into the hands of Babylonians and Kingship in the northern kingdom was plagued with instability and violence. Twenty rulers represented nine different dynasties during the approximately 210 years from the division of the kingdom in 930 BC. to the fall of Samaria in 722–721. In the southern kingdom there were also 20 rulers, but these were all descendants of David (except Athaliah, whose usurping of the throne interrupted the sequence for a few years) and spanned a period of about 345 years from the division of the kingdom until the fall of Jerusalem in 586.
Bibliography
1 Kings 9 commentary
http://www.biblestudytools.com/commentaries/matthew-henry-complete/1-kings/9.html
Bible Gateway 1 King 9:1-9
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20kings%209%3A1-9
Intro to 1 Kings from NIV study Bibles
http://www.biblica.com/bible/online-bible/schoolar-notes/niv-study-bible/intro-to-1-kings/
