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Book 14 Poster 14
A priestly view of Judah's demise
A King's glory
A King's disgrace
The history review marches on. Solomon prepares for and builds a temple and a palace with the riches his father David had stored and the skilled workmen the king of Tyre sent. You can see the timbers being rafted down the river along with all the skilled workers coming and the gifts of fine horses from Egypt and goods from all countries. Solomon's fame was wide spread and the queen of Sheba came to visit him and check out what she had heard. She brought with her many fine gifts. You can see her caravan coming down from top left. She confirmed his greatness and he sent her home with even more gifts than she brought with her.
The temple is built in Jerusalem according to specific detailed instructions and furnished with the finest things of pure gold. The large building complex you see in the center represents the temple in Jerusalem. The Ark is placed in the temple and you can see the priests, the singers, the trumpeters, players of cymbals, harps and lyres standing outside praising and glorifying God. If you look closely you can see the cloud rising from the temple area. You can see Solomon, wearing both blue and red just below the musicians and before the altar with the burning sacrifice, giving praise and dedicating the temple. He is also asking God to hear and answer the prayers of anyone, any time, any where if they pray from or toward there. God agreed but also gave a warning about obedience.
After Solomon's death his son Rehoboam became king, didn't listen to his elders, ran around with a bad crowd and made such a mess of the country in just five years that God aloud the king of Egypt to come and overtake Jerusalem. God would have let the people be completely foresaken but they humbles themselves before God and he let them become slaves instead. In the center of the picture you see the the Egyptian chariots and the battle taking place.
Shishak king of Egypt took all the treasures of the house of the Lord and the treasures of the king's palace. At the bottom of the picture you see the plunder.
After this came a succession of kings, some good but mostly bad. Many were idol worshipers. Some of them even offered their children to idols as depicted towards the bottom left. Ten or twelve chapters of revolving kings and at one point Hilkiah the priest (shown up beside Solomon dedicating the temple. Hilkiah is reading from a scroll.) discovered a lost book of the Law and it is read to king Josiah and the commandments were kept, passover was celebrated again, until his death when tow more kings followed and king Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came and conquered the land and made Zedekiah rule in Judah. He did evil and God sends the Chaldeans to destroy everything as God had warned them earlier when Solomon prayed asking Him to hear and answers the prayers of anyone, any time, any where if they prayed from or toward the house of God.
The final two verses Cyrus kin g of Persia proclaimed he was going to build a house in Jerusalem for the Lord's people and permits them to return. If you look at the background colors in !st Chronicles you see the vivid colors of the divisions of the country as were dealt out in Joshua. When you look at the background colors in 2nd Chronicles you see the colors have faded but are not totally gone.
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