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* Solomon's choice of wisdom, His strength and wealth.
- SOLOMON began his reign with a pious, public visit to God's
altar. Those that pursue present things most eagerly, are likely
to be disappointed; while those that refer themselves to the
providence of God, if they have not the most, have the most
comfort. Those that make this world their end, come short of the
other, and are disappointed in this also; but those that make
the other world their end, shall not only obtain that, and full
satisfaction in it, but shall have as much of this world as is
good for them, in their way. Let us then be contented, without
those great things which men generally covet, but which commonly
prove fatal snares to the soul.
19170
* Solomon's message to Huram respecting the temple, His treaty
with Huram.
- Solomon informs Huram of the particular services to be
performed in the temple. The mysteries of the true religion,
unlike those of the Gentile superstitions, sought not
concealment. Solomon endeavoured to possess Huram with great and
high thoughts of the God of Israel. We should not be afraid or
ashamed to embrace every opportunity to speak of God, and to
impress others with a deep sense of the importance of his favour
and service. Now that the people of Israel kept close to the law
and worship of God, the neighbouring nations were willing to be
taught by them in the true religion, as the Israelites had been
willing in the days of their apostasy, to be infected with the
idolatries and superstitions of their neighbours. A wise and
pious king is an evidence of the Lord's special love for his
people. How great then was God's love to his believing people,
in giving his only-begotten Son to be their Prince and their
Saviour.
19188
* The building of the temple.
- There is a more particular account of the building of the
temple in #1Ki 6|. It must be in the place David had prepared,
not only which he had purchased, but which he had fixed on by
Divine direction. Full instructions enable us to go about our
work with certainty and to proceed therein with comfort. Blessed
be God, the Scriptures are enough to render the man of God
thoroughly furnished for every good work. Let us search the
Scriptures daily, beseeching the Lord to enable us to
understand, believe, and obey his word, that our work and our
way may be made plain, and that all may be begun, continued, and
ended in him. Beholding God, in Christ, his true Temple, more
glorious than that of Solomon's, may we become a spiritual
house, a habitation of God through the Spirit.