633. Solomon's Adversaries — 1 Kings 11:14-25

633.

God Raises Adversaries

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Today's Passage: 1 Kings 11:14-25

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29th Strategy.
Called to Evaluate Our Choices

• Enter your time with the LORD in prayer.
• Read the entire passage.
• Does the passage call for an evaluation of choices made? If so, stop and re-read that section one time.
• Continue through the entire passage.
• After reading the passage through one time, go back and re-read the section calling for an evaluation.
• Would the choices you are facing in your life today be similar to the choices in the passage.
• Write them down on a sticky note, or underline them in your bible.
• Whatever you are being prompted to evaluate, write it down. (This will be a great source of strength for years to come.)
• Take these choices to the LORD. Ask Him to give you clarity on how to move forward.
• Tell Him you desire to make wise choices and you know you need His guidance.
• Ask God to broaden your vision for the passage.
• Thank Him for His guidance and praise Him for His words.
• (I encourage you to write down what God shows you.)
  

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14. Then the LORD raised up Hadad the Edomite, a member of Edom's royal family, to be Solomon's adversary.
15. Years before, David had defeated Edom. Joab, his army commander, had stayed to bury some of the Israelite soldiers who had died in battle. While there, they killed every male in Edom.
16. Joab and the army of Israel had stayed there for six months killing them.

17. But Hadad and a few of his father's royal officials escaped and headed for Egypt. (Hadad was just a boy at the time.)
18. They set out from Midian and went to Paran, where others joined them. Then they traveled to Egypt and went to Pharaoh, who gave them a home, food, and some land.
19. Pharaoh grew very fond of Hadad, and he gave him his wife's sister in marriage — the sister of Queen Tahpenes.
20. She bore him a son named Genubath. Tahpenes raised him in Pharaoh's palace among Pharaoh's own sons.

21. When the news reached Hadad in Egypt that David and his commander Joab were both dead, he said to Pharaoh, "Let me return to my own county."

22. "Why?" Pharaoh asked him. "What do you lack here that makes you want to go home?"
"Nothing," he replied. "But even so, please let me return home."
23. God also raised up Rezon son of Eliada as Solomon's adversary. Rezon had fled from his master, King Hadadezer of Zobah,
24. and had become the leader of a gang of rebels After David conquered Hadadezer, Rezon and his men fled to Damascus, where he became king.
25. Rezon was Israel's bitter adversary for the rest of Solomon's reign, and he made trouble, just as Hadad did. Rezon hated Israel intensely and continued to reign in Aram.
1 Kings 11:14-25 NLT

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