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1 Kings 6 Commentary
by Brad Boyles
It’s amazing to me that the Lord spoke these same words over and over to Solomon.
“If you obey all my laws and commands, I will do for you what I promised your father David. 13 I will live among my people Israel in this Temple that you are building, and I will never abandon them.”
1 Kings 6:12-13 GNB
And if you obey me and keep my laws and commands, as your father David did, I will give you a long life.”
1 Kings 3:14 GNB
If you will serve me in honesty and integrity, as your father David did, and if you obey my laws and do everything I have commanded you, 5 I will keep the promise I made to your father David when I told him that Israel would always be ruled by his descendants.
1 Kings 9:4-5 GNB
It is the same phrase his father David spoke to him on his deathbed.
and do what the LORD your God orders you to do. Obey all his laws and commands, as written in the Law of Moses, so that wherever you go you may prosper in everything you do.
1 Kings 2:3 GNB
It goes without saying, Solomon was wise. Do you think he really needed to be told the same thing four different times? History would prove that answer to be ‘yes’. And, if the wisest man to ever live needed them, how much more do we?
God is faithful to give us reminders. This is why He gave us His Word. It is the divinely-inspired instruction that we need in order to glorify God with our lives. But, reading the Bible once is not enough! We continue to go back to these familiar phrases and verses because we slip back into our fatalistic mindset. We fall back into sinful habits.
The difference for us today is that we, like Solomon, could not uphold the statutes of the law. We fall miserably short and must be reminded of the grace of Jesus which covers sin and continues to call us forward in our love relationship with Him.