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Solomon Statesmanship sucks?

Was Solomon a wise and prudent statesman, in your opinion?

  • Yes

    Votes: 1 20.0%

  • No

    Votes: 4 80.0%

  • No, but better than Donald Trump! :p

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
    5
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the rodent

New Member
King Solomon was given the name Jedidiah "beloved of God". A name from God at birth through the Prophet Nathan. He was commissioned to build God's House and also given a request to be granted, and he chose; wisdom to lead the people. The answer God was looking for, was for him to ask to dwell in God's House. Solomon asked for wisdom to lead the people, and had he asked to live in God's House with his request, then where to lead the people is a given, and Israel's prophetic blessing of Judah would have been fulfilled, however Solomon was not the Shiloh to come.

The name Jedidiah given by God, did find it's fulfillment in time. However, the question about wisdom that the OP asked,...it is like this, Solomon asked for personal wisdom, which is what the serpent claimed to offer at the tree of knowledge of good and evil. And you had God's House over here and Solomon's house over there, and at the dedication of the Temple it says the Priest could not stand because the presence and glory of God was so great, which is not the "inviting in" stance like the priestly blessing states, it was more akin to what the Israelites experienced when God thundered from the mountain, after they had built the golden calf, and ultimately did not enter the promised land.

So, at the end of that evening King Solomon went home to his own house and his personal greatness. Which in no way comes near to being together with God. The book of Ecclesiastes gives it's summation.
 
sooda

sooda

Veteran Member
74x12 said:
Proof? And Omri? That hardly even makes sense. Omri was the king of the northern tribes. Not Jerusalem. Solomon was known for making things throughout Israel, but especially in Jerusalem which was his capital.
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Omri made everything that myth credits to Solomon.

Omri tried to reunite Israel and Judea.. that's when the different creation stories were cobbled together.

Omri was a good king, but the Judeans still trash him and Israel.
 
sooda

sooda

Veteran Member
74x12 said:
Sorry, but you haven't made your point. You're simply asserting there was no empire ever. Since it's an absolute statement; you have to prove it's true. I choose the Bible over your assertion. I think the Bible is a more reliable source of information.

I could accept a statement from you that you don't believe there was an empire. Or even if you said you don't think there was ever an empire.

But you can't just make an assertion "there was no empire ever".

So? We agree that Palestine was populated by relatively small towns and cities compared with places like Egypt which had a few large cities or Mesopotamia which had a few large cities.

Often times in history the size of a city is less important than it's actual place in history. Let's take Greece or Italy for example. Later in history they had large cities. But in the bronze age? Small cities ... yet we know the impact of such places on history. Take Athens for example. A small bronze age city but no one would say it's later history is therefore insignificant. They certainly wouldn't say Athens didn't ruled a modest empire for it's time and place.

The impact of Israel on history is obviously religious. They never had a great empire compared with Rome or Persia etc. But to deny that they had anything at all; without evidence is just nonsense. There is evidence they did rule for a time over their neighbors. Which is really unsurprising and even maybe a bit unremarkable; unless someone is completely biased against the Biblical account.
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Judea was always impoverished. That's one of the reasons they hated Israel.
 
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