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The king replied to him, “Do as he has said, strike him down and bury him, and thus take away from me and from my father’s house the guilt for the blood that Joab shed without cause.” 1 Kings 2:31 Last December, my wife and I moved into our new home, putting everything in its…
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And he said, “Please ask King Solomon—he will not refuse you—to give me Abishag the Shunammite as my wife.” 1 Kings 2:17 The phrase Thoughts and Prayers has once again come under some scrutiny recently. Whenever there’s some terrible national tragedy, there are those who feel powerless to help, but who want to express their…
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Be strong, and show yourself a man, and keep the charge of the LORD your God, walking in his ways and keeping his statutes . . . 1 Kings 2:2-3 There’s a small controversy brewing with my football team this year regarding their new male cheerleaders. I’m pretty sure we’ve seen male cheerleaders previously, so…
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And Adonijah feared Solomon. So he arose and went and took hold of the horns of the altar. 1 Kings 1:50 When I was 35, I discovered there was an amateur football league in Minnesota and that there was a team right in my hometown! I wanted in. So, I signed up, even though I…
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Then all the guests of Adonijah trembled and rose, and each went his own way. 1 Kings 1:49 Early in our marriage, my wife and I were on vacation when we encountered an offer we couldn’t refuse. If we sat through a one-hour sales pitch for a timeshare, we’d get a $100 gift card. We…
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Adonijah and all the guests who were with him heard it as they finished feasting. And when Joab heard the sound of the trumpet, he said, “What does this uproar in the city mean?” 1 Kings 1:41 One Friday night when I was a kid, my dad went to the local high school football game,…
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And the king swore, saying, “As the LORD lives, who has redeemed my soul out of every adversity, as I swore to you by the LORD, the God of Israel, saying, ‘Solomon your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne in my place,’ even so will I do this day.”…
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And now, my lord the king, the eyes of all Israel are on you, to tell them who shall sit on the throne of my lord the king after him. 1 Kings 1:20 When I came home from treatment back in 2014, I knew I’d found a lasting recovery and that my life was going…
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Adonijah sacrificed sheep, oxen, and fattened cattle by the Serpent’s Stone, which is beside En-rogel, and he invited all his brothers, the king’s sons, and all the royal officials of Judah, but he did not invite Nathan the prophet or Benaiah or the mighty men or Solomon his brother. 1 Kings 1:9-10 After telling a…
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His father had never at any time displeased him by asking, “Why have you done thus and so?” 1 Kings 5:6 Back when I was 19, working at summer camp, I did one of the dumber things I’ve done in life – which is saying something. At camp, we had a six-foot diameter ball that…
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