The problem is trying to figure out who's going to be the next king. The problem is, there are other family members. David has multiple sons, some of them make attempt to take over the kingdom.

1) Greatest

2) Israel

• David (shepherd) → Solomon (palace of a king)

• David (aggressive man, fought armies) → Solomon (land of peace)

• David (man after God's own heart) → Solomon (enjoyed the life of being king)

• David (repentance) → Solomon (failed relationship with God)

• Consolidation of power

• Promise from God--promise of wisdom

• Defense measures - establishes chariots within his army.

• Court—his ruling is now larger, the kingdom is growing, the gov't is growing.  

• Financial support—High taxes, expensive, drafts ppl in army, drafts people to build his palace. Corver (vocab)—labor draft.

• You begin to rely on men and weapons instead of God—build a bigger army, get more weapons, we'll be okay. They'll stop consulting God. You should trust God to take care of you.

• If you enter into a treaty with another nation, you now must accept their practices as being acceptable things to do such as the gods that they worship and how they worship their gods. 

• If your treaty parter goes to war, you must go to war, even without asking God beforehand.

• Alliance with Egypt—worship of false Gods, but Israel believes in worship of the one true God.

• Alliance with Tyre—an exchange of  wood and supplies to build the temple. Solomon promises 20 cities as a reward, but the cities were returned.

• Queen of Sheba—came to visit Solomon for an exchange of goods.

  
  

  HINT:

  A/E (Alliance with Egypt) = American Eagle

  AT (Alliance with Tyre) = At

  Q

Building Activity

(Solomon)

• Building the temple—for God's presence. The temple is going to be twice the size of the tabernacle. 

• Other buildings--Solomon's personal palace took 13 years to build.
• Dedication of the temple

Literary Age (peak of the nation of Israel)

(Solomon)

• Wisdom and dramatic literature

  Historical Writing—things in the Bible, psalms, proverbs, Ecclesiastics, Song of Solomon. 

• Music and Psalms

   

  HINT:

  WHM

Spiritual Decline and Punishment 

(Solomon)

• The decline—Solomon is a great leader/wise, but he loved many foreign women. The women would turn his heart away from the true God. 

• The Punishment--syrians are taking land from the north

• Final assessment—Solomon ruled for 40 years in peace; because of disobedicd, the son not inheriting all kingdom; solomon wished he stayed with God.

• 1 Kings 12-22 and II Kings 1-17—the most detailed description of the northern kingdom. In this time frame that we're looking at, a little over 200 years, there are 19 kings that will rule in the N. kingdom. And they are from 9 different families. Out of these 19 kings, 8 of them were assassinated or committed suicide. None of these kings were considered godly kings, not following the things that they should have. 

• The revolt

• Rehoboam—is to take over the kingdom after Solomon, his father, dies. he doesn't listen to the people when they made suggestions and because of that, they chose not to follow him. 

• Jeroboam—has come back home, ppl gather around him and say, “we want you to be the king.”

  
  

  Hint: RJ

Dynasty of Jeroboam (Northern Kingdom)

• Lasts 22 years
• Jeroboam--1st person to rule the dynasty, inherit all the problems of the kingdom, set up worship. Dies of natural causes and his son, nadab, takes over
• Nadab—jeroboam's second son; 1 Kings 15:25-26, did evil in the sight of the lord and in his sin made Israel to sin. baasha assassinates him and he takes over.

Dynasty of Baasha (Northern Kingdom)

24 years

•   Baasha—during his rule, b/w the two kingdoms are still at tension w/ each other (northern and southern kingdom). His son then takes over, Elah.

• Elah—short time to rule. Zimri assassinated Elah

   

  HINT: BE

 As soon as he assassinates Elah, he kills off descendents of Baasha. The whole army is going after him, so he commits suicide because he only has a few armymen and a huge army is coming against Zimri.

Dynasty lasts for 7 days.

44 years

1. Omri: Strong leader

    

   2.     Ahab and Jezebel (worships baal; Ahab is successful, but he whines to his wife all the time. He disguises himself in a battle and an arrow goes through him and he dies.)

    

   •   Ahaziah—Ahab's son; had no sons to succeed him to the throne. Died from falling from an upper window. When he dies, Jehoram, becomes king.

   • Jehoram 852-841—another son of ahab; removes an image of baal worship but continues worshiping baal. Is killed by shallum

   
   

   Hint:
   OAJAJ

Sons = Joel and Abijah, preverted justice

Each generation is responsible for their own beliefs.

Saul and David

• Referred to the last judge
• A man who brings about transition

Another term: Judah

Sometimes called: Jerusalem

Another term: Damascus

Sometimes called: Aram(ea)

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Nineveh

What is another term for Babylon and Egypt? What are they sometimes referred to as?

When did the Northern Kingdom (Samaria) fall?