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May 17, 2019 Bible Study

I am using the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.

Today, I am reading and commenting on 1 Chronicles 27-29.

The account given here of King David naming his son Solomon as his successor and commissioning him to build the Temple is, on the surface, inconsistent with the accounts of Solomon becoming king given in 1 Kings. However, despite the inconsistencies between these two accounts, they are not contradictory. The account in 1 Kings emphasizes King David’s frailty and the political maneuvering which surrounded the end of his reign. The account here emphasizes that King David chose Solomon as his successor and put the force of his reputation behind the legitimacy of Solomon as king. More importantly, I think, the writer puts King David’s support behind King Solomon building the Temple. I believe that the writer attempts to more closely tie the Temple to King David than the account in 1 Kings did.
Having said all of that, I think if we read both passages in light of each other we can see how both could represent what happened. I was tempted to go into a discussion of how these two accounts fit together, but I think the messages in this passage are of more value.

God had chosen David to rule over His people and He chose Solomon to rule after him. Wherever we find ourselves in life and whatever success we have result from the fact that God has chosen us for that lot and that success. God intends for us to serve His purposes. That is why we are wherever we are and why we have the successes which we do. If we worship and serve God with all of our being, He will grant us great joy in all of our life and take care of all of our needs. God does not do this for us as payment for our service, because He does not need us. God rewards us for doing His will because it pleases Him to do so. We suffer when we reject His will because He has designed the world that way.

Daily Bible Study

May 17, 2016 Bible Study — Using What We Have To Serve God

I am using the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading. I had been using One Year Bible Online, but it was time for a change.

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Today, I am reading and commenting on 1 Chronicles 27-29.

    The account here of the events leading up to Solomon’s coronation implies a contradiction to the account given in 1 Kings. I can think of an explanation which do not require this account to be false (there are probably others). It seems likely that after the emergency coronation of Solomon in response to his brother’s attempt to seize the throne that a second “official” coronation was held after the leaders from more distant areas were summoned. While it is unlikely that the King David described in 1 Kings at the time of Solomon’s coronation would have given an address to the assembly, it is conceivable that the address recorded here was given on his behalf. There is no inherent contradiction between the two accounts of Solomon’s coronation and the events leading up to it. We just have two writers who chose to record different aspects of it.

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    Regardless of the above there are two wonderful, related points made in David’s prayer of praise. First, we can give nothing to God that He does not already have. No matter how much wealth we have, that wealth came from God in the first place. We should not expect credit for spending some of the wealth which God has given us to do God’s work. Second, we have only a short time on this earth to serve God. Let us take advantage of the wealth and time which God has given us in order to serve Him joyously.