Week 84, Day 1: David’s last instructions
Today’s Reading: 1 Kings 2:1-46
Some thoughts from today’s reading…
Before David dies he gives Solomon some “loose strings” to take care of. David had several people that had wronged him or deserved punishment and yet David had not done anything about it for various reasons. He now tasks Solomon with taking care of these matters. I find this interesting from the standpoint of all the things Solomon must have had to deal with fairly quickly. Soon he will be ordering men to be slain as a punishment for their actions. Quite a leap to go from one of the king’s sons to being the one calling the shots and even putting men to death.
The two people David tells him to take care of are Joab for his murder of innocent men and of Shimei the Benjaminite for his severe cursing of David. Solomon quickly takes care of these things and does so in a wise way. He does not let Joab talk his way out or use the altar as a way of escaping justice. And he set Shimei in a situation where he knows the terms for living and allows him to violate them so that there is a cause for putting him to death.
Question: What was so bad about Adonijah asking for Abishag for a wife?
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