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Posted on 06/16/2022 5:56:50 AM PDT by Hebrews 11:6
It bothers me a lot......the sins that he committed when given so much by God.
“It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.”
Wisdom from a man with 700 wives and 300 girlfriends. Lol
From everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded; and from the one who has been entrusted with much, much more will be asked.
Luke 12:48
Solomon was a disaster for Israel. He was the one who promoted devil worship and took part in it himself.
I have been so blessed by the wife our Lord picked for me.
Literally. His legacy was the immediate division between Judah and the ten tribes.
I sometimes think one of the subtexts of history is the war against human sacrifice. Adds a nuance to Abraham’s story. And Cortez, for that matter.
Israel was supposed to be a key part of that struggle but succumbed to it to the point that several kings sacrificed their own sons on the altar, and the queen of the devil worshippers wound up queen of Israel.
Cortez put an end to demonic human sacrifice on a massive scale. For this he is condemned by some.
Meanwhile, Americans commit human sacrifice, on a massive scale, to the 'god of convenience'.
Presuming you mean Jezebel. She'll be getting her comeuppance here on Friday, July 1st.
But at the end of Ecclesiastes, after much deep reflection and pondering, Solomon did sum things up in this way:
“Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man. For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.”
Also quoted in reply #17. Although as for everyone I hope to encounter him in heaven, in my view this advice coming at the end of a life notorious for its debauchery and apostasy smacks unavoidably of “Don’t do as I do, do as I say.” I don’t buy it from him any more than I did from my father.
And to be cut off from sex from their husband is to be a widow.
And David came to his house at Jerusalem; and the king took the ten women his concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and put them in ward, and fed them, but went not in unto them. So they were shut up unto the day of their death, living in widowhood. 2 Sam. 20:3
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Well, that's the official version, the implication, anyway. But what I've seen among those so dominated by their lust is a greater and greater need to satisfy it in new and ever-more varied ways, with ventures into all the -philias. So, I'm decidedly less sanguine.
Still, I hope you're right.
“I have been so blessed by the wife our Lord picked for me.”
The paintings are great, but your statement is the most beautiful.
My conviction is that a big part of heaven consists of the saints regaling each other with just such stories of the Lord's benevolence, and I promise to fill you in then.
Dan
Yet which observation actually serves to indict the men of Sodom as being intent upon the men, since it was manifest that they wanted to violently sexually "know" the men even when offered "two daughters which have not known man," And in the parallel event of Judges 19 certain sons of Belial demanded to know the Levite sojourner also refused the female substitute, though when given the concubine, they abused her all the night until the morning and then she died. But the Levite was no prize either. Attempts to relegate "know them" in both events to being interrogation are refuted here, by the grace of God.
Yet as said, they would have been on the men.
My point is that it wouldn’t surprise me if Solomon had ventured beyond his female harem into orgies, pedophilia, homosexuality, bestiality, necrophilia....
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