Participants: Kelly Mowrer
Series Code: HWAL
Program Code: HWAL000545
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00:16 Hello, and welcome back to His Words are Life.
00:18 I'm Kelly Mowrer and thank you for coming aside to read 00:22 the bible with me now. Before we begin, let's pray together. 00:25 Dear Heavenly Father, thank you again for an opportunity to 00:31 step apart from our lives and sit in Your presence and hear 00:36 your word. Please be with us now as we read. That we won't 00:40 just hear the word, but that it will go deep and bear fruit 00:42 to your glory. We love you so much and thank you for loving us 00:46 Amen. We're reading in the book of 1st Kings and Solomon has 00:52 completed the temple that he was building for God, 00:56 for the ark and for the presence of God to be with Israel. 01:00 And he is praying. When we were last together we were in 01:03 the middle of Solomon's prayer. We're going to pick that up, and 01:07 he's listing various situations and he's saying to the Lord, 01:11 if this happens and we turn and we pray towards this house, 01:15 please hear the prayer. And if this happens and we turn and 01:18 pray again, please forgive us, hear the prayer, and 01:21 we're picking it up in 1st Kings chapter 8, and verse 47. 01:27 And Solomon has just said, And if the people shall sin again, 01:31 see. Now we'll continue to read. This is the King James Version. 01:35 Yet if they shall bethink themselves in the land 01:40 whither they were carried captives, and repent, and make 01:44 supplication unto thee in the land of them that carried them 01:48 captive, saying, We have sinned, and have done perversely, 01:51 we have committed wickedness; And so return unto thee with all 01:55 their heart, with all their soul in the land of their enemies 01:58 which led them away captive, and pray unto thee toward their 02:03 land, which thou gavest unto their fathers, the city which 02:06 thou hast chosen, and the house which I have built for thy name: 02:10 Then hear thou their prayer and their supplication in heaven thy 02:16 dwelling place, and maintain their cause, and forgive thy 02:20 people that have sinned against thee and all their 02:23 transgressions wherein they have transgressed against thee, 02:27 and give them compassion before them who carried them captive, 02:31 that they may have compassion on them: for they be thy people, 02:36 and thine inheritance, which thou broughtest forth out of 02:39 Egypt, from the midst of the furnace of iron: 02:42 That thine eyes may be open unto the supplication of thy servant, 02:47 and unto the supplication of thy people Israel, to hearken unto 02:50 them in all that they call for unto thee. 02:53 For thou didst separate them from among all the people 02:57 of the earth, to be thine inheritance, as thou spakest 03:01 by the hand of Moses thy servant when thou broughtest our fathers 03:05 out of Egypt, O lord God. And it was so, that when Solomon had 03:09 made an end of praying all this prayer and supplication unto the 03:13 Lord, he arose from before the altar of the Lord, from kneeling 03:19 on his knees with his hands spread up to heaven. 03:22 And he stood, and blessed all the congregation of Israel 03:28 with a loud voice, saying, Blessed be the Lord, 03:32 that hath given rest unto his people Israel, according to all 03:36 that he promised: there hath not failed one word of all his good 03:41 promise, which he promised by the hand of Moses his servant. 03:44 The Lord our God be with us, as he was with our fathers: 03:49 let him not leave us nor forsake us: That he may incline our 03:55 hearts unto him, to walk in all his ways, and to keep his 04:01 commandments, and his statutes, and his judgments, which he 04:05 commanded our fathers. And let these my words, wherewith I have 04:10 made supplication before the Lord, be nigh unto the Lord 04:14 our God day and night, that he maintain the cause 04:19 of his servant, and the cause of his people Israel at all times, 04:23 as the matter shall require: That all the people of the earth 04:29 may know that the Lord is God, and that there is none else. 04:34 Let your heart therefore be perfect with the Lord our God, 04:39 to walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments, 04:43 as at this day. And the king, and all Israel with him, 04:48 offered sacrifice before the Lord. And Solomon offered a 04:53 sacrifice of peace offerings, which he offered unto the Lord, 04:56 two and twenty thousand oxen, and an hundred and twenty 05:00 thousand sheep. So the king and all the children of Israel 05:03 dedicated the house of the Lord. The same day did the king hallow 05:09 the middle of the court that was before the house of the Lord 05:12 for there he offered burnt offerings, and meat offerings, 05:15 and the fat of the peace offerings: because the brasen 05:19 altar that was before the Lord was too little to receive 05:22 the burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and the fat of the 05:24 peace offerings. And at that time Solomon held a feast, 05:28 and all Israel with him, a great congregation, from the 05:33 entering in of Hamath unto the river of Egypt, before the Lord 05:36 our God, seven days and seven days, even fourteen days. 05:41 On the eighth day he sent the people away: and they blessed 05:45 the king, and went unto their tents joyful and glad of heart 05:50 for all the goodness that the Lord had done for David 05:53 his servant, and for Israel his people. 05:56 We're continuing to read in 1st Kings, chapter 9, 06:00 And this is the King James Version. 06:01 And it came to pass when Solomon had finished the building of the 06:06 house of the Lord, and the king's house, and all Solomon's 06:10 desire which he was pleased to do, that the Lord appeared to 06:14 Solomon the second time, as he had appeared unto him at Gibeon. 06:18 And the Lord said unto him, I have heard thy prayer and thy 06:23 supplication, that thou hast made before me: I have hallowed 06:28 this house, which thou hast build, to put my name there 06:32 for ever; and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually 06:37 and if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father walked, 06:43 in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according 06:48 to all that I have commanded thee, and wilt keep my statutes 06:52 and my judgments: Then I will establish the throne 06:56 of thy kingdom upon Israel for ever, as I promised to David 07:00 thy father, saying, There shall not fail thee a man upon the 07:04 throne of Israel. But if ye shall at all turn from following 07:10 me, ye or your children, and will not keep my commandments 07:14 and my statutes which I have set before you, but go and serve 07:19 other gods, and worship them: Then will I cut off Israel 07:24 out of the land which I have given them; and this house, 07:27 which I have hallowed for my name, will I cast out of 07:30 my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among 07:35 all people: And at this house, which is high, every one that 07:39 passeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss, 07:43 and they shall say, Why hath the Lord done thus unto this land, 07:47 and to this house? And they shall answer, Because they 07:51 forsook the Lord their God, who brought forth their fathers 07:54 out of the land of Egypt, and have taken hold upon other gods, 07:58 and have worshipped them, and served them: therefore hath the 08:04 Lord brought upon them all this evil. And it came to pass 08:09 at the end of 20 years, when Solomon had built the 2 houses, 08:13 the house of the Lord, and the king's house, 08:15 Now Hiram the king of Tyre had furnished Solomon with the cedar 08:20 trees and fir trees, and with gold, according to all his 08:23 desire, that then king Solomon gave Hiram 20 cities in the land 08:29 of Galilee. And Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities 08:33 which Solomon had given him; and they pleased him not. 08:38 And he said, What cities are these which thou hast given me, 08:43 my brother? And he called them the land of Cabul unto this day. 08:48 And Hiram sent to the king sixscore talents of gold. 08:53 And this is the reason of the levy which king Solomon raised; 08:56 for to build the house of the Lord, and his own house, 08:59 and Millo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, 09:02 and Megiddo, and Gezer. For Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone 09:07 up and taken Gezer and burnt it with fire, and slain the 09:10 Canaanites that dwelt in the city, and given it for a present 09:14 unto his daughter, Solomon's wife. And Solomon built Gezer, 09:18 and Beth-horon the nether, and Baalath, and Tadmor 09:23 in the wilderness, in the land, and all the cities of store 09:26 that Solomon had, and cities for his chariots, and cities for his 09:30 horsemen, and that which Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, 09:34 and in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion. 09:37 And all the people that were left of the Amorites, Hittites, 09:42 Perrizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, which were not of 09:46 the children of Israel, their children that were left after 09:49 them in the land, whom the children of Israel also were not 09:53 able utterly to destroy, upon those did Solomon levy a tribute 09:58 of bondservice unto this day. But of the children of Israel 10:03 did Solomon make no bondmen: but they were men of war, 10:07 and his servants, and his princes, and his captains, 10:10 and rulers of his chariots, and his horsemen. These were the 10:14 chief of the officers that were over Solomon's work, 550, 10:18 which bare rule over the people that wrought in the work. 10:22 But Pharaoh's daughter came up out of the city of David unto 10:27 her house which Solomon had built for her: then did he build 10:31 Millo. And 3 times in a year did Solomon offer burnt offerings 10:37 and peace offerings upon the altar which he built unto the 10:41 Lord, and he burnt incense upon the altar that was before 10:44 the Lord. So he finished the house. And King Solomon 10:49 made a navy of ships in Eziongeber, which is beside 10:53 Eloth, on the shore of the Red Sea, in the land of Edom. 10:56 And Hiram sent in the navy his servants, shipmen that had 11:02 knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon. 11:04 And they came to Ophir, and fetched from thence gold, 11:09 420 talents, and brought it to king Solomon. 11:13 We're continuing to read in 1 Kings, chapter 10. 11:17 This is the King James version. 11:18 And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon 11:25 concerning the name of the Lord, she came to prove him 11:29 with hard questions. And she came to Jerusalem with a very 11:34 great train, with camels that bare spices, and very much gold, 11:38 and precious stones: and when she was come to Solomon, 11:42 she communed with him of all that was in her heart. 11:45 And Solomon told her all her questions: there was not any 11:50 thing hid from the king, which he told her not. 11:53 And when the queen of Sheba had seen all Solomon's wisdom, 11:57 and the house that he had built, and the meat of his table, 12:01 and the sitting of his servants, and the attendance of his 12:05 ministers and their apparel, and his cupbearers, and his ascent 12:10 by which he went up unto the house of the Lord: 12:12 thee was no more spirit in her. And she said to the king, 12:17 It was a true report that I heard in mine own land 12:21 of thy acts and of thy wisdom. Howbeit I believed not the words 12:26 until I came, and mine eyes had seen it: and, behold the half 12:32 was not told me: thy wisdom and prosperity exceedeth 12:37 the thing which I heard. Happy are thy men, happy are these 12:42 thy servants, which stand continually before thee, 12:45 and that hear thy wisdom. Blessed be the Lord thy God, 12:49 which delighted in thee, to set thee on the throne of Israel 12:53 because the Lord loved Israel for ever, therefore made he thee 12:58 king, to do judgment and justice. And she gave the king 13:04 an hundred and twenty talents of gold, and of spices very great 13:07 store, and precious stones: there came no more such 13:12 abundance of spices as these which the queen of Sheba gave 13:16 to king Solomon. And the navy also of Hiram, that brought gold 13:20 from Ophir, brought in from Ophir great plenty of almug 13:24 trees, and precious stones. And the king made of the almug 13:29 trees, pillars for the house of the Lord, and for the king's 13:32 house, harps also and psalteries for singers: there came no such 13:37 almug trees, nor were seen unto this day. And king Solomon 13:42 gave unto the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatsoever she asked 13:47 beside that which Solomon gave her of his royal bounty. 13:50 So she turned and went to her own country, she and her 13:55 servants. Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon 13:58 in one year was six hundred threescore and six talents 14:04 of gold, beside that he had of the merchantmen, 14:07 and of the traffic of the spice merchants, and of all the kings 14:11 of Arabia, and of the governors of the country. 14:14 And King Solomon made 200 targets of beaten gold: 14:18 600 shekels of gold went to one target. And he made 300 shields 14:23 of beaten gold: 3 pound of gold went to one shield: and the king 14:27 put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon. 14:29 Thank you for joining with me today. 14:32 Please join me again next time to read the word of God. Goodbye |
Revised 2014-12-17