Today, I am reading and commenting on 2 Chronicles 1-4.

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One of the things which we often overlook is that there were at least two centers for worship of God throughout at least both King Saul’s and King David’s reigns as king of Israel.  We see here in today’s passage that the ark of the covenant was in one location and the tent of meeting was in another and the Israelites gathered to worship God in both locations.  This seems to go back to at least when the Philistines returned the ark after capturing it.  This was despite God commanding through Moses that the people of Israel should only worship God in one location.  So, after Solomon was crowned king in Jerusalem where David his father had moved the ark of the covenant, he went to Gibeon where the tent of meeting and the altar which the Israelites had used in the wilderness was to worship God as well.  This was in part a political move, but it also reflected Solomon’s desire at the start of his reign to put God at the center of his kingship.

As this passage describes it, at the beginning of Solomon’s reign his greatest desire was the wisdom and knowledge necessary to be a good ruler over Israel.  We see from Solomon’s life that wisdom and knowledge are not in themselves enough to keep us close to God.  For all his wisdom and knowledge we see that Solomon later stopped serving God with all of his heart, soul, and mind.

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