We have been spending our evenings looking at various people of faith in the scriptures to give us encouragement and hope to continue to follow our Lord and Savior. We have looked at Joseph, Jacob, and David most recently. For our next series I would like us to look at the life of Solomon as told by the Chronicler. I have noted before that there are key differences in the purposes between the author of the book of Kings and the author of the book of Chronicles. One of those key differences is that the book of Kings is teaching how Israel fell. The sins of Israel and Judah and their kings are highlighted and revealed. However, the book of Chronicles is not exploring how Israel and Judah fell. Rather, the concern is how to be restored. It is unfortunate that the Chronicles accounts can be neglected when studying Israel’s history because we can miss the way back to God. We saw this principle when we looked at David earlier this year. The writer of Chronicles does not write about all the sins of David. Two sins are noted both of which are showing the necessity of proper worship as the means for God to live with his redeemed people. The life of Solomon has a similar lens. The Chronicler presumes that you know Solomon’s sin story and has no interest in addressing those points in his life again. In fact, the Chronicler does not speak about any of Solomon’s sins in his account. Rather, Solomon is pictured as the son of David, a foreshadowing and prototype of the Son of David, Jesus, who will be the means for God’s people to be restored. Please open your copies of God’s word to 2 Chronicles 1 and let’s consider how Solomon’s life begins according to the Chronicler…

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