Today's Passage: 1 Kings 7
The Line in this passage that jumped out at me was verse 1:
It took Solomon thirteen years, however, to complete the construction of his palace.
After looking back at the end of chapter 6 I realized that Solomon only took nine years to finish the temple of the Lord. So I began looking into why the writer of 1 Kings would make this comparison and use the word "however".
In reading chapters 6 & 7 of 1 Kings we learn that both the temple of the Lord and Solomon's palace were huge construction projects. We also learn that the temple was constructed in the same format as the tabernacle but twice it's original size. Then we learn that Solomon's palace was 11,250 square feet compared to 2,700 square feet in the temple... Now I don't know how many of you are personnel managers but if you are like me you operate with productivity in mind always. So if you do the math that is a progress rate of 25 square feet per month on the temple compared to 720 square feet per month on Solomon's palace.
Now I know what some of you are saying to yourself right now, " I thought this was a devotional not a math class..." Well you're right but check this out. What this shows us is not that Solomon was lazy and just didn't work as hard on the temple. In fact it's the contrary because Solomon chose to build the temple first and the temple was just as ornate if not more than his own palace. Instead what it really shows to us is that Solomon saw the temple of the Lord as so important to God that he took almost three times longer than he needed to to complete the project. Now that is attention to detail!
Solomon's passion to meet God's needs not only first but better than is own should be an example to us of how we should live our own lives.
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