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This month I am inspired by a post from Bible teacher and friend Madelon Maupin's post about getting to know your Bible better in seven steps. Just visit www.bibleroads.com. Step one is PRAY.
She also offers tips for up to date Bible Commentaries, a Bible Atlas, and a Study Bible.
This month our book club will read I Kings, which begins like this (The Message) - King David grew old. The years had caught up with him. Even though they piled blankets on him, he couldn’t keep warm.
But there was strife in the household...
11-14 Nathan went to Bathsheba, Solomon’s mother, “Did you know that Adonijah, Haggith’s son, has taken over as king, and our master David doesn’t know a thing about it? Quickly now, let me tell you how you can save both your own life and Solomon’s. Go immediately to King David. Speak up: ‘Didn’t you, my master the king, promise me, “Your son Solomon will be king after me and sit on my throne”? So why is Adonijah now king?’ While you’re there talking with the king, I’ll come in and corroborate your story.”
And later in the proceedings:
38-40 Then Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, Benaiah son of Jehoiada, and the king’s personal bodyguard (the Kerethites and Pelethites) went down, mounted Solomon on King David’s mule, and paraded with him to Gihon. Zadok the priest brought a flask of oil from the sanctuary and anointed Solomon. They blew the ram’s horn trumpet and everyone shouted, “Long live King Solomon!” Everyone joined the fanfare, the band playing and the people singing, the very earth reverberating to the sound.
41 Adonijah and his retinue of guests were just finishing their “coronation” feast when they heard it. When Joab heard the blast of the ram’s horn trumpet he said, “What’s going on here? What’s all this uproar?”
Now who was that guy called Solomon?
Julie Swannell
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