Verse 1
CONCLUDING SUMMARY OF SOLOMON'S REIGN;
REGARDING HIS EXTENSIVE BUILDING PROGRAM
"And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, wherein Solomon had built the house of Jehovah, and his own house, that the cities which Huram had given to Solomon, Solomon built them, and caused the children of Israel to dwell in them. And Solomon went to Hamath-Zobah, and prevailed against it. And he built Tadmore in the wilderness, and all the store-cities which he built in Hamath. Also he built Beth-horon the upper, and Beth-horon the nether, fortified cities with walls, gates, and bars; and Baalath, and all the store-cities that Solomon had, and the cities for the horsemen, and all that Solomon desired to build for his pleasure in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion."
The 20th Century Christian, as a general rule, could have little or no interest in Solomon's building program, which, in the matter of his huge horse business, to say nothing of anything else, was a violation of God's word!
"And all that Solomon desired to build for his pleasure in Jerusalem ... Lebanon ... in all ... his dominion" (2 Chronicles 8:6). Again we have the Chronicler's word that Solomon recognized no other limitation except his own undisciplined desires. (Read our comment under 2 Chronicles 7:11, above.) The Chronicler has mercifully spared us the details concerning these multiple pleasure-houses Solomon built all over Palestine.
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