What is there to admire about the life and character of King Solomon?

1. Solomon
1 Kings 1.1-11.43

3. Major Strengths
Decisive: 1.52/2.25;
2.26-27; 2.31;
2.37/2.46
Prayers: 3.9; 8.15,
23ff;

4. Major Flaws
Pragmatism replaced
faith
Projects replaced love

5. Pragmatism replaced
faith
“Solomon made an
alliance with Pharaoh king
of Egypt and married his
daughter.” (1 Kings 3:1
NIV11)

6. Projects replaced
love “Solomon showed his love for the
LORD by walking according to the
instructions given him by his father
David, except that he offered
sacrifices and burned incense on the
high places.” (1 Kings 3:3 NIV11)
“King Solomon, however, loved many
foreign women” (1 Kings 11:1 NIV11)

7. Projects replaced
love
1 Kings 3:3, 26;
8:23; 10:9;
11:1–2

8. “King” etc.

18. Who is the King of glory?
“Lift up your heads, you gates;
be lifted up, you ancient doors,
that the King of glory may come in.
Who is this King of glory?
The LORD strong and mighty,
the LORD mighty in battle.
Lift up your heads, you gates;
lift them up, you ancient doors,
that the King of glory may come in.
Who is he, this King of glory?
The LORD Almighty—
he is the King of glory.”
(Psalms 24:7–10 NIV11)

19. Priests
“The king put Benaiah son of Jehoiada
over the army in Joab’s position and
replaced Abiathar with Zadok the priest.”
(1 Kings 2:35 NIV11)
“The commander of the guard took as
prisoners Seraiah the chief priest,
Zephaniah the priest next in rank and
the three doorkeepers.” (2 Kings
25:18)….“So Judah went into captivity,
away from her land.” (:21 NIV11)

20. Prophets etc.
prophecy = 1 masa’
prophesies = 2 nava’
prophesying = 3 nava’
prophet = 55 ’ish, hu’, navi’
prophets = 43 navi’

21. Prophets: from start to
“While she was fsitnill isspehaking with the
king, Nathan the prophet arrived. And the
king was told, “Nathan the prophet is
here.” So he went before the king and
bowed with his face to the ground.” (1
Kings 1:22–23 NIV11)
“The LORD sent Babylonian, Aramean,
Moabite and Ammonite raiders against
him to destroy Judah, in accordance with
the word of the LORD proclaimed by his
servants the prophets.” (2 Kings 24:2
NIV11)

22. NT references
Matt 1:6–7; 6:29; 12:42
Luke 11:31; 12:27
John 10:23
Acts 3:11; 5:12; 7:47

23. “David was the father of Solomon, whose mother had
been Uriah’s wife, Solomon the father of Rehoboam,”
(Matt 1:6–7 NIV11)
“…not even Solomon in all his splendour was dressed like
one of these.” (Matt 6:29 NIV11 & Lk 12.27)
“The Queen of the South will rise at the judgment with this
generation and condemn it; for she came from the ends of
the earth to listen to Solomon’s wisdom, and now
something greater than Solomon is here.” (Matt 12:42
NIV11 & Lk 11.31)
“Jesus was in the temple courts walking in Solomon’s
Colonnade.” (John 10:23 NIV11 & Acts 3.11; 5.12)
“But it was Solomon who built a house for him.” (Acts 7:47
NIV11)