July 7, 2026
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Reading along with us in 2 Chronicles and Luke? Here’s today’s reading:
2 Chronicles 8 (NIV)
Solomon’s Other Activities
1 At the end of twenty years, during which Solomon built the temple of the Lord and his own palace, 2 Solomon rebuilt the villages that Hiram had given him, and settled Israelites in them. 3 Solomon then went to Hamath Zobah and captured it.…..Continue Reading
We see Solomon set up a secure and stable kingdom. With order and tradition, he followed God’s plan for the knigdom of Israel with the one exception mentioned and that would be his Egyptian wife. Funny to me when you see these wise men that make such good choices for the protection and success of their kingdoms but don’t protect themeselves and their own heart and mind when it comes to choosing the women they surround themselves with. The most intimate part of their life they leave vulnerable and it always comes back to bite them!
Solomon is wise to set up fortifications and it is a sign of God’s blessing on him that he builds store houses and increases in wealth. It is interesting that he notices a problem of where his Egyptian wife is living and yet doesn’t recognize the problem of taking her as a wife in the first place. It is interesting how we can strain at a gnat and yet swallow a camel at times. But Solomon does well to follow his father’s direction as to how the priests and Levites would be assigned their tasks. It takes a lot to run a nation and it takes plans, organization and leadership. Solomon does well with these at first.
2 Chronicles 8
2 Chronicles 7 & 8
Psalm 134; Daniel 10; 2 Chronicles 8
“Now all the work of Solomon was well-ordered from the day of the foundation of the house of the Lord until it was finished. So the house of the Lord was completed.”
II Chronicles 8:16 NKJV
2 chronicles 8
2 Chronicles 8