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523. Parable of the Sower and Soils 1. Today's Passage: Mark 4:1-20 Get to know your bible. It will become a good friend. Or find the passage NASB version on Bible Gateway here. You can search for other versions there as well. Versions even in foreign languages. Or, for your convenience I have typed the verses below from the New Living Testament (NLT). 2. Thank You for meeting me, LORD. I welcome you into this place. Please prepare my heart Jehovah. Thank you for insight. 3. 24th Strategy. Jesus Speaks.
1. Once again Jesus began teaching by the lakeshore. A very large crowd soon gathered around him, so he got into a boat. Then he sat in the boat while all the people remained on the shore. 2. He taught them by telling many stories in the form of parables, such as this one: 3. Listen! A farmer went out to plant some seed. 4. As he scattered it across his field, some of the seed feel on a footpath, and the birds came and ate it. 5. Other seed fell on shallow soil with underlying rock. The seed sprouted quickly because the soil was shallow. 6. But the plant soon wilted under the hot sun, and since it didn't have deep roots, it died. 7. Other seed fell among thorns that grew up and choked out the tender plants so they produced no grain. 8. Still other seeds fell on fertile soil, and they sprouted, grew , and produced a crop that was thirty, sixty, and even a hundred times as much as had been planted!" 9. Then he said, "Anyone with ears to hear should listen and understand." 10. Later, when Jesus was alone with the twelve disciples and with the others who were gathered around, they asked him what the parables meant. 11. He replied, "You are permitted to understand the secret of the Kingdom of God. But I use parables for everything I say to outsiders, 12. so that the Scriptures might be fulfilled: 'When they see what I do, they will learn nothing. When they hear what I say, they will not understand. Otherwise, they will turn to me and be forgiven.' " 13. Then Jesus said, "If you can't understand the meaning of this parable, how will you understand all the other parables? 14. The farmer plants seed by taking God's word to others. 15. The seed that fell on the footpath represents those who hear the message, only to have Satan come at once and take it away, 16. The seed on the rocky soil represents those who hear the message and immediately receive it with joy. 17. But since they don't have deep roots they don't last long. They fall away as soon as they have problems or are persecuted for believing God's word. 18. The seed that fell among the thorns represents others who hear God's word, 19. but all too quickly the message is crowded out by the worries of this life, the lure of wealth, and the desire for other things, so no fruit is produced. 20. And the seed that fell on good soil represents those who hear and accept God's word and produce a harvest of thirty, sixty, or even a hundred times as much as had been planted!" Mark 4:1-20 NLT 4. Thank you for coming today. Please leave your initials and a comment. Don't forget to check the box underneath your comment, so replies will be directed to you. And remember, I pray for you every day. And I will be back here tomorrow, I hope I will see you here too. ~Robyn Robyn & Biff Cox RR&BC, LLC ©2016
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522. Solomon's Many Achievements 1. Today's Passage: 1 Kings 9:15-28 Get to know your bible. It will become a good friend. Or find the passage NASB version on Bible Gateway here. You can search for other versions there as well. Versions even in foreign languages. Or, for your convenience I have typed the verses below from the New Living Testament (NLT). 2. Thank You for meeting me, LORD. I welcome you into this place. Please prepare my heart Jehovah. Thank you for insight. 3. 26th Strategy. Wisdom - The fear of Jehovah (the LORD) is the instruction for Wisdom: Proverbs 15:33
15. This is the account of the forced labor that King Solomon conscripted to build the LORD'S Temple, the royal palace, the supporting terraces, the wall of Jerusalem, and the cities of Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer. 16. (Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, had attacked and captured Gezer, killing the Canaanite population and burning it down. He gave the city to his daughter as a wedding gift when she married Solomon. 17. So Solomon rebuilt the city of Gezer." He also built up the towns of Lower Beth-horon, 18. Baalath, and Tamar in the wilderness within his land. 19. He built towns as supply centers and constructed towns where his chariots and horses could be stationed. He built everything he desired in Jerusalem and Lebanon and throughout his entire realm. 20. There were still some people living in the land who were not Israelites, incluing Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites. 21. These were descendants of the nations whom the people of Israel had not completely destroyed. So Solomon conscripted them for his labor force, and they serve in the labor force to this day. 22. But Solomon did not conscript any of the Israelites for forced labor. Instead, he assigned them to serve as fighting men, government officials, officers and captains in his army, commanders of his chariots, and charioteers. 23. Solomon appointed 550 of them to supervise the people working on his various projects. 24. Three times each year Solomon presented burnt offerings and peace offerings on the altar he had built for the LORD. And so he finished the work of building the Temple. 26. King Solomon also built a fleet of ships at Ezion-geber, a port near Elath in the land of Edom, along the shore of the Red Sea. 27. Hiram sent experienced crews of sailors to sail the ships with Solomon's men. 28. They sailed to Ophir and brought back to Solomon some sixteen tons of gold. 1 Kings 9:15-28 NLT 4. Thank you for coming today. Please leave your initials and a comment. Don't forget to check the box underneath your comment, so replies will be directed to you. And remember, I pray for you every day. And I will be back here tomorrow, I hope I will see you here too. ~Robyn Robyn & Biff Cox RR&BC, LLC ©2016 521. Cities given to Hiram 1. Today's Passage: 1 Kings 9:10-14 Get to know your bible. It will become a good friend. Or find the passage NASB version on Bible Gateway here. You can search for other versions there as well. Versions even in foreign languages. Or, for your convenience I have typed the verses below from the New Living Testament (NLT). 2. Thank You for meeting me, LORD. I welcome you into this place. Please prepare my heart Jehovah. Thank you for insight. 3. 26th Strategy. Wisdom - The fear of Jehovah (the LORD) is the instruction for Wisdom: Proverbs 15:33
10. It took Solomon twenty years to build the LORD'S Temple and his own royal palace. At the end of that time, 11. he gave twenty towns in the land of Galilee to King Hiram of Tyre. (Hiram had previously provided all the cedar and cypress timber and gold that Solomon had requested.) 12. But when Hiram came from Tyre to see the towns Solomon had given him, he was not at all pleased with them. 13. "What kind of towns are these, my brother?" he asked. So Hiram called that area Cabul (which means "worthless"), as it is still known today. 14. Nevertheless, Hiram paid Solomon 9,000 pounds of gold. 1 Kings 9:10-14 NLT 4. Thank you for coming today. Please leave your initials and a comment. Don't forget to check the box underneath your comment, so replies will be directed to you. And remember, I pray for you every day. And I will be back here tomorrow, I hope I will see you here too. ~Robyn Robyn & Biff Cox RR&BC, LLC ©2016 520. God's Promise and Warning 1. Today's Passage: 1 Kings 9:1-9 Get to know your bible. It will become a good friend. Or find the passage NASB version on Bible Gateway here. You can search for other versions there as well. Versions even in foreign languages. Or, for your convenience I have typed the verses below from the New Living Testament (NLT). 2. Thank You for meeting me, LORD. I welcome you into this place. Please prepare my heart Jehovah. Thank you for insight. 3. 26th Strategy. Wisdom - The fear of Jehovah (the LORD) is the instruction for Wisdom: Proverbs 15:33
1. So Solomon finished building the Temple of the LORD, as well as the royal palace. He completed everything he had planned to do. 2. Then the LORD appeared to Solomon a second time, as he had done before at Gibeon. 3. The LORD said to him, "I have heard your prayer and your petition. I have set this Temple apart to be holy ⏤ this place you have built where my name will be honored forever. I will always watch over it, for it is dear to my heart. 4. "As for you, if you will follow me with integrity and godliness, as David your father did, obeying all my commands, decrees, and regulations, 5. then I will establish the throne of your dynasty over Israel forever. For I made this promise to your father, David: 'One of your descendants will always sit on the throne of Israel.' 6. "But if you or your descendants abandon me and disobey the commands and decrees I have given you, and if you serve and worship other gods, 7. then I will uproot Israel from this land that I have given them. I will reject this Temple that I have made holy to honor my name. I will make Israel an object of mockery and ridicule among the nations. 8. And though this Temple is impressive now, all who pass by will be appalled and will shake their heads in amazement. They will ask, 'Why did the LORD do such terrible things to this land and to this Temple?' 9. "And the answer will be, 'Because his people abandoned the LORD their God, who brought their ancestors out of Egypt, and they worshiped other gods instead and bowed down to them. That is why the LORD has brought all these disasters on them.' " 1 Kings 9:1-11 NLT 4. Thank you for coming today. Please leave your initials and a comment. Don't forget to check the box underneath your comment, so replies will be directed to you. And remember, I pray for you every day. And I will be back here tomorrow, I hope I will see you here too. ~Robyn Robyn & Biff Cox RR&BC, LLC ©2016 519. Solomon's Benediction 1. Today's Passage: 1 Kings 8:54-66 Get to know your bible. It will become a good friend. Or find the passage NASB version on Bible Gateway here. You can search for other versions there as well. Versions even in foreign languages. Or, for your convenience I have typed the verses below from the New Living Testament (NLT). 2. Thank You for meeting me, LORD. I welcome you into this place. Please prepare my heart Jehovah. Thank you for insight. 3. 11th strategy. Reading... Simple Act of Meditation Simple acts of meditation are not difficult. If they were difficult God would not encourage every person to do them. They are sometimes uncomfortable. But they are always profitable. They bring us closer to the heart of God. We are to Hide His Words In Our Hearts.
54. When Solomon finished making these prayers and petitions to the LORD,, he stood up in front of the altar of the LORD where he had been kneeling with his hands raised toward heaven. 55. He stood and in a loud voice blessed the entire congregation of Israel: 56. "Praise the Lord who has given rest to his people Israel, just as he promised. Not one word has failed of all the wonderful promises he gave through his servant Moses. 57. May the LORD our God be with us as he was with our ancestors; may he never leave us or abandon us. 58. May he give us the desire to do his will in everything and to obey all the commands, decrees, and regulations that he gave our ancestors. 59. And may these words that I have prayed in the presence of the LORD be before him constantly, day and night , so that the LORD our God may give justice to me and to his people Israel, according to each day's needs. 60. Then people all over the earth will know that the LORD alone is God and there is no other. 61. And may you be completely faithful to the LORD our God. May you always obey his decrees and commands, just as you are doing today." 62. Then the king and all Israel with him offered sacrifices to the LORD. 63. Solomon offered to the LORD a peace offering of 22, 000 cattle and 120.000 sheep and goats. And so the king and all the people of Israel dedicated the Temple of the LORD. 64. That same day the king consecrated the central area of the courtyard in front of the LORD"s Temple. He offered burnt offerings, grain offerings, and the fat of peace offerings there, because the bronze altar in the LORD'S presence was too small to hold all the burnt offerings, grain offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings. 65. Then Solomon and all Israel celebrated the Festival of Shelters in the presence of the LORD our God. A large congregation had gathered from as far away as Lebo-hamath in the north and the Brook of Egypt in the south. The celebration went on for fourteen days in all ⏤ and seven days for the Festival of Shelters. 66. After the festival was over, Solomon sent the people home. They blessed the king and went to their homes joyful and glad because the LORD had been good to his servant David and to his people Israel. 1 Kings 8:54-66 NLT 4.
Thank you for coming today. Please leave your initials and a comment. Don't forget to check the box underneath your comment, so replies will be directed to you. And remember, I pray for you every day. And I will be back here tomorrow, I hope I will see you here too. ~Robyn Robyn & Biff Cox RR&BC, LLC ©2016 518. Solomon's Prayer 1. Today's Passage: 1 Kings 8:46-53 Get to know your bible. It will become a good friend. Or find the passage NASB version on Bible Gateway here. You can search for other versions there as well. Versions even in foreign languages. Or, for your convenience I have typed the verses below from the New Living Testament (NLT). 2. Thank You for meeting me, LORD. I welcome you into this place. Please prepare my heart Jehovah. Thank you for insight. 3. 11th strategy. Reading... Simple Act of Meditation
46. "If they sin against you ⏤ and who has never sinned? ⏤ you might become angry with them and let their enemies conquer them and take them captive to their land far away or near. 47. But in that land of exile, they might turn to you in repentance and pray, 'We have sinned, done evil, and acted wickedly.' 48. If they turn to you with their whole heart and soul in the land of their enemies and pray toward the land you gave to their ancestors ⏤toward this city you have chosen, and toward this Temple I have built to honor your name ⏤ 49. then hear their prayers and their petition from heaven where you live, and uphold their cause. 40. Forgive our people who have sinned against you. Forgive all the offenses they have committed against you. Make their captors merciful to them, 51. for they are your people ⏤ your special possession ⏤ whom you brought out of the iron-smelting furnace of Egypt. 52. May your eyes be open to my requests and to the requests of your people Israel. May you hear and answer them whenever they cry out to you. 53. For when you brought our ancestors out of Egypt, O Sovereign LORD, you told your servant Moses that you had set Israel apart from all the nations of the earth to be your own special possession." 1 Kings 8:46-53 4. Thank you for coming today. Please leave your initials and a comment. Don't forget to check the box underneath your comment, so replies will be directed to you. And remember, I pray for you every day. And I will be back here tomorrow, I hope I will see you here too. ~Robyn Robyn & Biff Cox RR&BC, LLC ©2016 517. The Prayer of Dedication 1. Today's Passage: 1 Kings 8:22-45 Get to know your bible. It will become a good friend. Or find the passage NASB version on Bible Gateway here. You can search for other versions there as well. Versions even in foreign languages. Or, for your convenience I have typed the verses below from the New Living Testament (NLT). 2. Thank You for meeting me, LORD. I welcome you into this place. Please prepare my heart Jehovah. Thank you for insight. 3. 15th strategy. Imagine
25. Then Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in front of the entire community of Israel. He lifted his hands toward heaven, 23. and he prayed, "O LORD, God of Israel, there is no God like you in all of heaven above or on the earth below. You keep your covenant and show unfailing love to all who walk before you in wholehearted devotion. 24. You have kept your promise to your servant David, my father. You made that promise with your own mouth, and with your own hands you have fulfilled it today. 25. "And now, O LORD, God of Israel, carry out the additional promise you made to your servant David, my father. for you said to him, 'If your descendants guard their behavior and faithfully follow me as you have done, one of them will always sit on the throne of Israel.' 26. Now, O God of Israel, fulfill this promise to your servant David, my father. 27. "But will God really live on earth? Why, even the highest heavens cannot contain you. How much less this Temple I have built! 28. Nevertheless, listen to my prayer and my plea, O LORD my God. Hear the cry and the prayer that your servant is making to you today. 29. May you watch over this Temple night and day, this place where you have said, 'My name will be there.' May you always hear the prayers I make toward this place. 30. May you hear the humble and earnest requests from me and your people Israel when we pray toward this place. Yes, hear us from heaven where you live, and when you hear, forgive. 31. "If someone wrongs another person and is required to take an oath of innocence in front of your altar in this Temple, 32. then hear from heaven and judge between your servants ⏤ the accuser and the accused. Punish the guilty as they deserve. Acquit the innocent because of their innocence. 33. "If your people Israel are defeated by their enemies because they have sinned against you, and if they turn to you and acknowledge your name and pray to you here in this Temple, 34. then hear from heaven and forgive the sin of your people Israel and return them to this land you gave their ancestors. 35. "If the skies are shut up and there is no rain because your people have sinned against you, and if they pray toward this Temple and acknowledge your name and turn from their sins because you have punished them, 36. then hear from heaven and forgive the sins of your servants, your people Israel. Teach them to follow the right path, and send rain on your land that you have given to your people as their special possession. 37. "If there is a famine in the land or a plague or crop disease or attacks of locusts or caterpillars, or if your people's enemies are in the land besieging their towns ⏤whatever disaster or disease there is ⏤ 38. and if your people Israel pray about their troubles, raising their hands toward this Temple, 39. then hear from heaven where you live and forgive. Give your people what their actions deserve, for you alone know each human heart. 40. Then they will fear you as long as they live in the land you gave to our ancestors. 41. "In the future, foreigners who do not belong to your people Israel will hear of you. They will come from distant lands because of your name, 42. for they will hear of your great name and your strong hand and your powerful arm. And when they pray toward this Temple, 43. then hear from heaven where you live, and grant what they ask of you. In this way, all the people of the earth will come to know and fear you, just as your own people Israel do. They, too, will know that this Temple I have built honors your name. 1 Kings 8:25-45 NLT 4. Thank you for coming today. Please leave your initials and a comment. Don't forget to check the box underneath your comment, so replies will be directed to you. And remember, I pray for you every day. And I will be back here tomorrow, I hope I will see you here too. ~Robyn Robyn & Biff Cox RR&BC, LLC ©2016 516. Solomon Addresses the People 1. Today's Passage: Isaiah 8:12-21 Get to know your bible. It will become a good friend. Or find the passage NASB version on Bible Gateway here. You can search for other versions there as well. Versions even in foreign languages. Or, for your convenience I have typed the verses below from the New Living Testament (NLT). 2. Thank You for meeting me, LORD. I welcome you into this place. Please prepare my heart Jehovah. Thank you for insight. 3. 12th strategy. History - So, now I know where it is. Again, I would like to emphasize, simple acts of meditation are not so much difficult, as uncomfortable. God wants you to know how His story happened. How He created the earth, made his children, and how traditions became interwoven into his family.
12. Then Solomon prayed, "O LORD, you have said that you would live in a thick cloud of darkness. 13. Now I have built a glorious Temple for you, a place where you can live forever!" 14. Then the king turned around to the entire community of Israel standing before him and gave this blessing: 15. "Praise the LORD, the God of Israel, who has kept the promise he made to my father, David. For he told my father, 16. 'From the day I brought my people Israel out of Egypt, I have never chosen a city among any of the tribes of Israel as the place where a Temple should be built to honor my name. But I have chosen David to be king over my people Israel.' " 17. Then Solomon said, "My father, David, wanted to build this Temple to honor the name of the LORD, the God of Israel. 18. But the LORD told him, 'You wanted to build the Temple to honor my name. Your intention is good, 19. but you are not the one to do it. One of your own sons will build the Temple to honor me.' 20. "And now the LORD has fulfilled the promise he made, for I have become king in my father's place, and I now sit on the throne of Israel, just as the LORD promised. I have built this Temple to honor the name of the LORD, the God of Israel. 21. And I have prepared a place there for the Ark, which contains the covenant that the LORD made with our ancestors when he brought them out of Egypt." I Kings 8:12-21 NLT 4. Thank you for coming today. Please leave your initials and a comment. Don't forget to check the box underneath your comment, so replies will be directed to you. And remember, I pray for you every day. And I will be back here tomorrow, I hope I will see you here too. ~Robyn Robyn & Biff Cox RR&BC, LLC ©2016 515. The Ark Brought into the Temple 1. Today's Passage:1 Kings 8:1-11 Get to know your bible. It will become a good friend. Or find the passage NASB version on Bible Gateway here. You can search for other versions there as well. Versions even in foreign languages. Or, for your convenience I have typed the verses below from the New Living Testament (NLT). 2. Thank You for meeting me, LORD. I welcome you into this place. Please prepare my heart Jehovah. Thank you for insight. 3. 25th Strategy. Genealogies, Lists, and Such.
1. Solomon then summoned to Jerusalem the elders of Israel and all the heads of the tribes ⏤ the leaders of the ancestral families of the Israelites. They were to bring the Ark of the LORD'S Covenant to the Temple from its location in the City of David, also known as Zion. 2. So all the men of Israel assembled before King Solomon at the annual Festival of Shelters, which is held in early autumn in the month of Ethanim. 3. When all the elders of Israel arrived, the priests picked up the Ark. 4. The priests and Levites brought up the Ark of the LORD along with the special tent and all the sacred items that had been in it. 5. There, before the Ark, King Solomon and the entire community of Israel sacrificed so many sheep, goats, and cattle that no one could keep count! 6. Then the priests carried the Ark of the LORD'S Covenant into the inner sanctuary of the Temple ⏤ the Most Holy Place ⏤ and placed it beneath the wings of the cherubim. 7. The cherubim spread their wings over the Ark, forming a canopy over the Ark and its carrying poles. 8. These poles were so long that their ends could be seen from the Temple's main room ⏤ the Holy Place ⏤ but not from the outside. They are still there to this day. 9. Nothing was in the Ark except the two stone tablets that Moses had placed in it at Mount Sinai, where the LORD made a covenant with the people of Israel when they left the land of Egypt. 10. When the priests came out of the Holy Place, a thick cloud filled the Temple of the LORD. 11. The priests could not continue their service because of the cloud, for the glorious presence of the LORD filled the Temple. 1 Kings 8:1-11 NLT 4. Thank you for coming today. Please leave your initials and a comment. Don't forget to check the box underneath your comment, so replies will be directed to you. And remember, I pray for you every day. And I will be back here tomorrow, I hope I will see you here too. ~Robyn Robyn & Biff Cox RR&BC, LLC ©2016 514. Huram's (Hiram in Hebrew) Work in the Temple 1. Today's Passage: 1 Kings 7:13-51 Get to know your bible. It will become a good friend. Or find the passage NASB version on Bible Gateway here. You can search for other versions there as well. Versions even in foreign languages. Or, for your convenience I have typed the verses below from the New Living Testament (NLT). 2. Thank You for meeting me, LORD. I welcome you into this place. Please prepare my heart Jehovah. Thank you for insight. 3. 25th Strategy. Genealogies, Lists, and Such.
13. King Solomon then asked for a man named Huram to come from Tyre. 14. He was half Israelite, since his mother was a widow from the tribe of Naphtali, and his father had been a craftsman in bronze from Tyre. Huram was extremely skillful and talented in any work in bronze, and he came to do all the metal work for King Solomon. 15. Huram cast two bronze pillars, each 27 feet tall and 18 feet in circumference. 16. For the tops of the pillars he cast bronze capitals, each 7-1/2 feet tall. 17. Each capital was decorated with seven sets of latticework and interwoven chains. 18. He also encircled the latticework with two rows of pomegranates to decorate the capitals over the pillars. 19. The capitals on the columns inside the entry room were shaped like water lilies, and they were six feet tall. 20. The capitals on the two pillars had 100 pomegranates in two rows around them, beside the rounded surface next to the latticework. 21. Huram set the pillars at the entrance of the Temple, one toward the south and one toward the north. He named the one on the south Jakin, and the one on the north Boaz. 22. The capitals on the pillars were shaped like water lilies. And so the work on the pillars was finished. 23. Then Huram cast a great round basin, 15 feet across from rim to rim, called the Sea. It was 7-1/2 feet deep and about 45 feet in circumference. 24. It was encircled just below its rim by two rows of decorative gourds. There were about six gourds per foot all the way around, and they were cast as part of the basin. 25. The Sea was placed on a base of twelve bronze oxen, all facing outward. Three faced north, three faced west, three faced south, and three faced east, and the Sea rested on them. 26. The walls of the Sea were about three inches thick, and its rim flared out like a cup and resembled a water lily blossom. It could hold about 11,000 gallons of water. 27. Huram also made ten bronze water carts, each 6 feet long, 6 feet wide, and 4-1/2 feet tall. 28. They were constructed with side panels braced with crossbars. 29. Both the panels and the crossbars were decorated with carved lions, oxen, and cherubim. Above and below the lions and oxen were wreath decorations. 30. Each of these carts had four bronze wheels and bronze axles. There were supporting posts for the bronze basins at the corners of the carts; these supports were decorated on each side with carvings of wreaths. 31. The top of each cart had a rounded frame for the basin. It projected 1-1/2 feet above the cart's top like a round pedestal, and its opening was 2-1/4 feet across; it was decorated on the outside with carvings of wreaths. The panels of the carts were square, not round. 32. Under the panels were four wheels that were connected to axles that had been cast as one unit with the cart. The wheels were 2-1/4 feet in diameter 33. and were similar to chariot wheels. The axles, spokes, rims, and hubs were all cast from molten bronze. 34. There were handles at each of the four corners of the carts, and these, too, were cast as one unit with the cart. 35. Around the top of each cart was a rim nine inches wide. The corner supports and side panels were cast as one unit with the cart. 36. Carvings of cherubim, lions, and palm trees decorated the panels and corner supports wherever there was room, and there there were wreaths all around. 37. All ten water carts were the same size and were made alike, for each was cast from the same mold. 38. Huram also made ten smaller bronze basins, one for each cart. Each basin was six feet across and could hold 220 gallons of water. 39. He set five water carts on the south side of the Temple and five on the north side. The great bronze basin called the Sea was placed near the southeast corner of the Temple. 40. He also made the necessary washbasins, shovels, and bowls. So at last Huram completed everything King Solomon had assigned him to make for the Temple of the LORD: 41. the two pillars; the two bowl-shaped capitals on top of the pillars; the two networks of interwoven chains that decorated the capitals; 42. the 400 pomegranates that hung from the chains on the capitals (two rows of pomegranates for each of the chain networks that decorated the capitals on top of the pillars); 43. the ten water carts holding the ten basins; 44. the Sea and the twelve oxen under it; 45. the ash buckets, the shovels, and the bowls. Huram made all these things of burnished bronze for the Temple of the LORD, just as King Solomon had directed. 46. The king had them cast in clay molds in the Jordan Valley between Succoth and Zarethan. 47. Solomon did not weigh all these things because there were so many; the weight of the bronze could not be measured. 48. Solomon also made all the furnishings of the Temple of the LORD: the gold altar; the gold table for the bread of the Presence; 49. the lamp stands of solid gold, five on the south and five on the north, in front of the Most Holy Place; the flower decorations, lamps, and tongs ⏤ all of gold; 50. the small bowls, lamp snuffers, bowls, dishes, and incense burners ⏤ all of solid gold; the doors for the entrances to the Most Holy Place and the main room of the Temple, with their fronts overlaid with gold. 51. So King Solomon finished all his work on the Temple of the LORD. Then he brought all the gifts his father, David, had dedicated ⏤ the silver, the gold, and the various articles ⏤ and he stored them in the treasuries of the LORD'S Temple. 1 Kings 7:13-51 NLT 4. Thank you for coming today. Please leave your initials and a comment. Don't forget to check the box underneath your comment, so replies will be directed to you. And remember, I pray for you every day. And I will be back here tomorrow, I hope I will see you here too. ~Robyn Robyn & Biff Cox RR&BC, LLC ©2016 |
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