#554 Where We Rest or What We Rest Upon

As soon as Solomon finished his prayer, fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices, and the glory of the Lord filled the temple. 2 And the priests could not...

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#553 No Place Above Prayer

Then Solomon said, “The Lord has said that he would dwell in thick darkness. 2 But I have built you an exalted house, a place for you to dwell in forever.” 3 Then the king turned around and...

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#552 The Heart of It

Thus all the work that Solomon did for the house of the Lord was finished. And Solomon brought in the things that David his father had dedicated, and stored the silver, the gold, and all the...

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#551 Light Sensitive

He made an altar of bronze, twenty cubits[a] long and twenty cubits wide and ten cubits high. 2 Then he made the sea of cast metal. It was round, ten cubits from brim to brim, and five cubits...

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#550 Where Angels Look

Then Solomon began to build the house of the Lord in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the Lord[a] had appeared to David his father, at the place that David had appointed, on the threshing floor...

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#549 I Can't, but I Know a Guy

Now Solomon purposed to build a temple for the name of the Lord, and a royal palace for himself. 2 [b] And Solomon assigned 70,000 men to bear burdens and 80,000 to quarry in the hill country,...

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#548 I Bet You Think This Song Is About You

Solomon the son of David established himself in his kingdom, and the Lord his God was with him and made him exceedingly great. 2 Solomon spoke to all Israel, to the commanders of thousands...

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#547 1 Summation of Chronicles

The Chronicles are written in the time after the Babylonian exile, and they are giving a history to the Jews, who are returning to Israel. It's important that they know how they came to exist as...

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#546 The Oddity

And David the king said to all the assembly, “Solomon my son, whom alone God has chosen, is young and inexperienced, and the work is great, for the palace will not be for man but for the Lord...

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