Solomon

How Nave’s arranged it

• Son of David by Bath-sheba2 Samuel 12:241 Kings 1:131 Kings 1:171 Kings 1:21
• Named Jedidiah, by Nathan the prophet2 Samuel 12:242 Samuel 12:25
• An ancestor of JosephMatthew 1:6
• Succeeds David to the throne of Israel1 Kings 1:11–481 Kings 2:121 Chronicles 23:11 Chronicles 28Ecclesiastes 1:12
• Anointed king a second time1 Chronicles 29:22
• His prayer for wisdom, and his vision1 Kings 3:5–142 Chronicles 1:7–12
• Covenant renewed in a vision after the dedication of the temple1 Kings 9:1–92 Chronicles 7:12–22
• His rigorous reign1 Kings 2
• Builds the temple1 Kings 51 Kings 61 Kings 9:101 Chronicles 6:102 Chronicles 22 Chronicles 32 Chronicles 42 Chronicles 7:11Jeremiah 52:20Acts 7
• Dedicates the temple1 Kings 82 Chronicles 6
• Renews the courses of the priests and Levites, and the forms of service according to the commandment of Moses and the regulations of David2 Chronicles 8:12–162 Chronicles 35:4Nehemiah 12:45
• Builds his palace1 Kings 3:11 Kings 7:11 Kings 7:81 Kings 9:102 Chronicles 7:112 Chronicles 8:1Ecclesiastes 2:4

The passages, in Bible order (130)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 16 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. Deuteronomy 17:15

   you are to appoint over yourselves the king whom the LORD your God shall choose. Appoint a king from among your brothers; you are not to set over yourselves a foreigner who is not one of your brothers.

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   “Thou shalt in any wise set him king over thee whom the Lord thy God shall choose,....

   “The king, like the judges and officers (compare Deu 16:18), is to be chosen by the people; but their choice is to be in accordance with the will of God, and to be made from among “their brethren.” Compare 1Sa 9:15; 1Sa 10:24; 1Sa 16:1; 1Ki 19:16. Thou mayest not set a stranger over thee - The Jews extended this prohibition to all offices whatsoever (compare Jer 30:21); and naturally attached the greatest importance to it: from where the significance of the question proposed to our Lord, “Is it lawful to give tribute to Caesar?” Mat 22:

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2. Deuteronomy 17:16

   But the king must not acquire many horses for himself or send the people back to Egypt to acquire more horses, for the LORD has said, ‘You are never to go back that way again.’

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   “But he shall not multiply horses to himself,....

   “He shall not multiply horses - As horses appear to have been generally furnished by Egypt, God prohibits these, 1. Lest there should be such commerce with Egypt as might lead to idolatry. 2. Lest the people might depend on a well-appointed cavalry as a means of security, and so cease from trusting in the strength and protection of God. And,

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3. Deuteronomy 17:17

   He must not take many wives for himself, lest his heart go astray. He must not accumulate for himself large amounts of silver and gold.

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   “Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not away,....

   “Multiplication of wives would lead to sensuality, and so to an apostasy no less fatal in effect than downright idolatry (compare Exo 34:16). This rule, like the others, abridges to the ruler of Israel liberties usually enjoyed without stint by the kings of the East. The restriction was in the days of Moses unprecedented; and demanded a higher standard in the king of Israel than was looked for among his equals in other nations. Neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold - In this third prohibition, as in the other two, excess is forbidden.

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4. 2 Samuel 7:12–16

   And when your days are fulfilled and you rest with your fathers, I will raise up your descendant after you, who will come from your own body, and I will establish his kingdom.

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   “I will set - I will set up in thy throne, thy posterity, first Solomon, and then others successively, and at last the Messiah. So the following words may be understood, part of his posterity in general, part of Solomon, and part of Christ only, according to the different nature of the several passages.

   “The prophet, having detailed God’s past mercies to David, now passes on to direct prophecy, and that one of the most important in the O d Testament. I will set up the seed - In one sense this mannifestly refers to Solomon, David’s successor and the builder of the temple.

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5. 2 Samuel 12:24

   Then David comforted his wife Bathsheba, and he went to her and lay with her. So she gave birth to a son, and they named him Solomon. Now the LORD loved the child

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   “David comforted Bath-sheba - His extraordinary attachment to this beautiful woman was the cause of all his misfortunes. He called his name Solomon - This name seems to have been given prophetically, for שלמה sholomah signifies peaceable, and there was almost uninterrupted peace during his reign.

   “And David comforted Bathsheba his wife,.... Which is the first time she is so called, Uriah being dead, and David having married her; which though at first displeasing to the Lord, because the circumstances attending it, was afterwards confirmed by him. Bathsheba no doubt was very much distressed, and greatly disconsolate, on account of the sin she had committed, and because of the wrath and displeasure of God, and because of the death of the child, which was a token of it; and she might have some scruples in her mind whether it was lawful to continue cohabiting with David.

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6. 2 Samuel 12:25

   and sent word through Nathan the prophet to name him Jedidiah because the LORD loved him.

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   “And he sent by the hand of Nathan the prophet,....

   “Called - Jedidiah - ידידיה, literally, the beloved of the Lord. This is the first instance I remember of a minister of God being employed to give a name to the child of one of his servants. But it is strange that the name given by the father was that alone which prevailed.

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7. 1 Kings 1:11–48

   Then Nathan said to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon, “Have you not heard that Adonijah son of Haggith has become king, and our lord David does not know it?

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   “Adonijah, in common with the people generally, expected that this natural arrangement should be followed in the Hebrew kingdom as in all others. Nathan, who was aware of the old king's solemn promise to Solomon, and, moreover, that this promise was sanctioned by the divine will, saw that no time was to be lost.

   “Wherefore Nathan spake unto Bathsheba the mother of Solomon,....

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8. 1 Kings 1:13

   Go at once to King David and say, ‘My lord the king, did you not swear to your maidservant, “Surely your son Solomon will reign after me, and he will sit on my throne”? Why then has Adonijah become king?’

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   “Adonijah, in common with the people generally, expected that this natural arrangement should be followed in the Hebrew kingdom as in all others. Nathan, who was aware of the old king's solemn promise to Solomon, and, moreover, that this promise was sanctioned by the divine will, saw that no time was to be lost.

   “Go and get thee in unto King David,....

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9. 1 Kings 1:17

   “My lord,” she replied, “you yourself swore to your maidservant by the LORD your God: ‘Surely your son Solomon will reign after me, and he will sit on my throne.’

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   “Adonijah, in common with the people generally, expected that this natural arrangement should be followed in the Hebrew kingdom as in all others. Nathan, who was aware of the old king's solemn promise to Solomon, and, moreover, that this promise was sanctioned by the divine will, saw that no time was to be lost.

   “And she said unto him, my lord, thou swarest by the Lord thy God unto thine handmaid,.... Which was a very solemn oath, and binding, and which she puts David in mind of, knowing that so conscientious a man as he was would religiously observe it: saying, assuredly Solomon thy son shall reign after me, and shall sit upon my throne; be his successor in it, and established on it.

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10. 1 Kings 1:21

    Otherwise, when my lord the king rests with his fathers, I and my son Solomon will be counted as criminals.”

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    “Adonijah, in common with the people generally, expected that this natural arrangement should be followed in the Hebrew kingdom as in all others. Nathan, who was aware of the old king's solemn promise to Solomon, and, moreover, that this promise was sanctioned by the divine will, saw that no time was to be lost.

    “Otherwise it shall come to pass, when my lord the king shall sleep with his fathers,....

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11. 1 Kings 2:1

    As the time drew near for David to die, he charged his son Solomon,

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    “David . . . charged Solomon his son--The charge recorded here was given to Solomon just before his death and is different from the farewell address delivered in public some time before (1Ch 28:2-9). It is introduced with great solemnity.

    “Now the days of David drew nigh that he should die,.... The number of his days fixed and determined by the Lord, Job 14:5; and which might be perceived as drawing nigh, both by himself and others, through the growing infirmities of old age, decline of nature, and various symptoms of an approaching dissolution which were upon him; see Gen 47:

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12. 1 Kings 2:12

    So Solomon sat on the throne of his father David, and his kingdom was firmly established.

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    “Then sat Solomon on the throne of David his father,.... So he did in his lifetime, with his consent, and by his order, and now by the agreement of the whole people: and his kingdom was established greatly; all submitting to it, and none opposing it.

    “The “establishment” of the kingdom here intended is probably its universal acceptance both by the tribe of Judah and the other Israelites.

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13. 1 Kings 2:35

    And the king appointed Benaiah son of Jehoiada in Joab’s place over the army, and he appointed Zadok the priest in Abiathar’s place.

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    “And the king put Benaiah the son of Jehoiada in his room over the host,.... Advanced him from being captain of his bodyguards to be general of the army: and Zadok the priest did he put in the room of Abiathar; from a common priest he promoted him to the high priesthood; whereby that office was restored to its ancient line, the family or Eleazar, having been in the line of Ithamar for many years; and the prediction of the destruction of Eli's house, made eighty years ago, began to be fulfilled, 1Sa 2:31.

    “The high priesthood had been for some time in a certain sense divided between Zadok and Abiathar. (See the 1Ki 1:8 note). Henceforth, Zadok became sole high priest.

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14. 1 Kings 3:1

    Later, Solomon formed an alliance with Pharaoh king of Egypt by marrying his daughter. Solomon brought her to the City of David until he had finished building his palace and the house of the LORD, as well as the wall around Jerusalem.

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    “Some wonder why Solomon made alliances with the Gentiles through marriages without being blamed, even though [the Law] forbade [the Hebrews] mixing with them. The reason for that prohibition was "lest" [the Scripture says], "[their daughters] might make your sons also prostitute themselves to their …

    “And Solomon made affinity with Pharaoh king of Egypt,.... Pharaoh was a common name of the kings of Egypt, of whom no mention is made in Scripture from the times of Moses until this time; which may seem strange, when it is considered that that kingdom was a potent one, and near the land of Canaan; but it was governed by a race of kings in this period of time, of whom, as Diodorus Siculus (i) says, there is nothing worthy of relation.

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15. 1 Kings 3:3

    And Solomon loved the LORD and walked in the statutes of his father David, except that he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.

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    “Statutes - According to the statutes or commands of God, which are here called the statutes of David; not only because they were diligently practiced by David, but also because the observation of them was so earnestly pressed upon Solomon, and fortified with David's authority and command.

    “And Solomon loved the Lord,.... The worship of the Lord, as the Targum: and which he showed by walking in the statutes of David his father; in which his father walked, which were the statutes of the Lord, or which he exhorted him to walk in, and were the same, 1Ki 2:3; only he sacrificed and burnt incense in high places; besides that at Gibeon, which it seems David did not.

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16. 1 Kings 3:4

    Now the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there, for it was the great high place. Solomon offered a thousand burnt offerings on the altar there.

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    “Since the Law forbade praying or sacrificing outside Jerusalem, why did Solomon offer one thousand whole burnt offerings on the altar of Gibeon? Because the tabernacle was in Gibeon, as is attested in the book of Chronicles, and therefore, out of veneration for the ancient …

    “Gibeon - The transfer to Gibeon of the “tabernacle of the congregation,” and the brass “altar of burnt offerings” made by Moses, which were removed there from Nob (compare 1Sa 21:6, with marginal references “i,” “k”), had made it “the great high-place,” more sacred, i. e., than any other in the holy land, unless it were Mount Zion where the ark had been conveyed by David. For the position of Gibeon, see Jos 9:3 note. A thousand burnt offerings did Solomon offer - Solomon presented the victims. The priests were the actual sacrificers 1Ki 8:

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