Read: 1 Kings 11; Ecclesiastes 1:1-11
We hate to see it, but Solomon didn’t stay loyal to the Lord. He had one vise which was women. He was told not to marry foreign wives because they would lead him to worship their gods but he insisted on loving them anyway. He had 700 of them and 300 concubines. I can’t even fathom that, but of course, they led his heart astray. He accommodated them and their gods and built temples to Ashtoreth and Molech where he worshipped also.
God was not happy and raised up three adversaries against him. They were Hadad, Rezon, and Jereboam. Each had their own story of why they wanted revenge on Israel. This was the beginning of the split of the kingdom. Jeroboam would rule over 10 of the tribes and be called Israel, and Rehoboam, Solomon’s son, would rule over the other two which included Jerusalem. It would be called Judah.
Ecclesiastes is another book of Solomon’s wisdom about life. He is a little cynical as he gets a glimpse of the whole picture. He sees everything as a circle. Everything repeats itself in history which is true if you study history. What is so great about that is we can live a life that we would want to be repeated in our generation. Maybe our future generations won’t know us or what we did but we can leave them a spiritual legacy that will be repeated over and over.
Lord, let our cycle in our family be something we want repeated in history. Let us leave a lasting legacy.
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