Today, I am reading and commenting on 1 Kings 7.

At the end of yesterday’s passage the writer told us that Solomon spent seven years building a temple for God.  He starts today’s passage by telling us that Solomon spent thirteen years building his palace.  I am convinced the writer is foreshadowing what went wrong in Solomon’s reign.  He is telling us that Solomon put more time and effort into building a house for himself than he put into the house he built for God.  Solomon did right by building the Temple before he built his own palace.  Solomon’s mistake was not necessarily the extra time he put into his own palace.  Rather, during that time he focused more on himself than on God and on serving God.  We can learn an important lesson from this.  While we need to care for ourselves and our needs, we must never allow our self-care to distract us from worshiping and serving God.

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