1 Kings 5 -God's Promise and Warning to Solomon | Bible Podcast, David Alley, Peace Christian Church

In this video listen to 1 Kings Chapter 5, read by David Alley, followed by comments and prayer.

In 1 Kings Chapter 5 Solomon makes a deal with Hiram of Tyre. Tyre is a part of Phonecia. The Phonecians worshipped other gods, and later produced the terrible Jezebel. Phoenicia is also supposed to have produced the first or oldest alphabet. Interestingly the Canaanite alphabet, phonecian alphabet and the paleo-hebrew alphabet are basically the same. In other words, the oldest alphabet in the world is the biblical one, although Dr Douglas Petrovich is now a leading expert in an even older version of Hebrew coming out of Egypt, which may be older than the Phonecian.

Solomon’s deal with HIram was for materials to build a temple for God, and a palace for himself and for the Pharaoh’s daughter, his wife. Solomon assumed in all o othis, that he was the son of David who would build God a house. Solomon may have been wise, but he had no idea that he was not the son that God was referring to. Christ was the son who would build a temple without hands, and also reign on an eternal throne.

Solomon conscripted not just slaves, but also regular Israelites in the building of the temple. It was a big project. He conscriptured 30,000 non slaves, who worked in shifts one month on, and two months off. In addition he had 150,000 slaves and 3300 supervisors. How exactly did stone cutting happen in ancient times? Hre is an unfinished obelisk from ancient Egypt still in the process of being cut out. This explains why 150000 workers were needed to build a temple of stone which was only about 30 meters long.

And why it took 7 years. 80000 of them were just to cut the stone, and 70000 to transport the stone. What a blessing concrete is today.