Transcript 1 Kings Overview 1 and 2 Kings were originally one book. Time covered: 400 years – approximately 1000 – 600 B.C. Key words:

1 Kings Overview
1 and 2 Kings were originally one book.
Time covered: 400 years – approximately 1000 –
600 B.C.
Key words: “glory” and “division”.
1 Kings 2:2"I go the way of all the earth; be
strong, therefore, and prove yourself a man. 3
"And keep the charge of the LORD your God: to
walk in His ways, to keep His statutes, His
commandments, His judgments, and His
testimonies, as it is written in the Law of Moses,
that you may prosper in all that you do and
wherever you turn; 4 "that the LORD may fulfill
His word which He spoke concerning me, saying,
'If your sons take heed to their way, to walk
before Me in truth with all their heart and with all
their soul,' He said, 'you shall not lack a man on
the throne of Israel.'
1 Kings 3:9 "Therefore give to Your servant an
understanding heart to judge Your people, that I
may discern between good and evil. For who is
able to judge this great people of Yours?" 10 The
speech pleased the LORD, that Solomon had
asked this thing.
1 Kings 9:4 "Now if you walk before Me as your
father David walked, in integrity of heart and in
uprightness, to do according to all that I have
commanded you, and if you keep My statutes and My
judgments, 5 "then I will establish the throne of your
kingdom over Israel forever, as I promised David
your father, saying, 'You shall not fail to have a man
on the throne of Israel.' 6 "But if you or your sons at
all turn from following Me, and do not keep My
commandments and My statutes which I have set
before you, but go and serve other gods and worship
them, 7 "then I will cut off Israel from the land
which I have given them; and this house which I
have consecrated for My name I will cast out of My
sight. Israel will be a proverb and a byword among all
peoples.
1 Kings 11:11 Therefore the LORD said to
Solomon, "Because you have done this, and have
not kept My covenant and My statutes, which I
have commanded you, I will surely tear the
kingdom away from you and give it to your
servant. 12 "Nevertheless I will not do it in your
days, for the sake of your father David; I will tear
it out of the hand of your son.
Author: Possibly Jeremiah or Ezra
Matthew 12:42 "The queen of the South will rise
up in the judgment with this generation and
condemn it, for she came from the ends of the
earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and indeed
a greater than Solomon is here. (See 1 Kings 10)
Luke 4:25 "But I tell you truly, many widows
were in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the
heaven was shut up three years and six months,
and there was a great famine throughout all the
land; 26 "but to none of them was Elijah sent
except to Zarephath, in the region of Sidon, to a
woman who was a widow. 27 "And many lepers
were in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet,
and none of them was cleansed except Naaman
the Syrian."
1. Elijah was a prophet
2. Elijah caused a drought for 3 ½ years
3. It collaborates the story of the widow found in
1 Kings 17
4. It collaborates the story of Naaman and his
cleansing of leprosy in 2 Kings 5
Romans 11:2 God has not cast away His people
whom He foreknew. Or do you not know what the
Scripture says of Elijah, how he pleads with God
against Israel, saying, 3 "LORD, they have killed
Your prophets and torn down Your altars, and I
alone am left, and they seek my life"? 4 But what
does the divine response say to him? "I have
reserved for Myself seven thousand men who
have not bowed the knee to Baal." (See 1 Kings
19)
Key chapter: 12
1 Kings 12:14 and he spoke to them according to
the advice of the young men, saying, "My father
made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your
yoke; my father chastised you with whips, but I
will chastise you with scourges!" 15 So the king
did not listen to the people; for the turn of events
was from the LORD, that He might fulfill His
word, which the LORD had spoken by Ahijah the
Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.
Northern Kingdom:
• 20 kings - all were bad
• Lasted around 200 years
• Destroyed by Assyria around 721 B.C.
• Never became a kingdom again.
Southern Kingdom:
• 20 Kings - some good some bad
• Lasted around 300 years
• Defeated by the Babylonians around 600 B.C.
Two main sections of 1 Kings
1. The reign of Solomon 1 – 11
2. The history of the divided kingdom 12 – 22.
Twofold purpose of th`is book:
1. It shows how God tried to move the Jews to
repentance.
2. The book shows God providence in preserving
His promise to Abraham in Gen. 22:18 through
the seed of David.
1 Kings 11:13 "However I will not tear away the
whole kingdom; I will give one tribe to your son
for the sake of my servant David, and for the sake
of Jerusalem which I have chosen.“
1 Kings 11:39 'And I will afflict the descendants
of David because of this, but not forever.' “
Galatians 3:16 Now to Abraham and his Seed
were the promises made. He does not say, "And
to seeds," as of many, but as of one, "And to your
Seed," who is Christ.
1-2. Solomon becomes king
3. Solomon prays for wisdom
4. Solomon’s prosperity, wealth and wisdom.
1 Kings 4:32 He spoke three thousand proverbs,
and his songs were one thousand and five. 33
Also he spoke of trees, from the cedar tree of
Lebanon even to the hyssop that springs out of
the wall; he spoke also of animals, of birds, of
creeping things, and of fish. 34 And men of all
nations, from all the kings of the earth who had
heard of his wisdom, came to hear the wisdom of
Solomon.
5-8 Solomon’s Construction.
1 Kings 8:26 "And now I pray, O God of Israel, let
Your word come true, which You have spoken to
Your servant David my father. 27 "But will God
indeed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and
the heaven of heavens cannot contain You. How
much less this temple which I have built! 28 "Yet
regard the prayer of Your servant and his
supplication, O LORD my God, and listen to the
cry and the prayer which Your servant is praying
before You today: 29 "that Your eyes may be
open toward this temple night and day, toward
the place of which You said, 'My name shall be
there,' that You may hear the prayer which Your
servant makes toward this place.
9-10. an expansion of chapter 4
11. Solomon’s downfall
12 – 22. The divided kingdom and their various
kings
17 – 2 Kings 2 Elijah the prophet.
Northern
Southern
Psalm 139:1 O LORD, You have searched me and
known me. 2 You know my sitting down and my
rising up; You understand my thought afar off. 3
You comprehend my path and my lying down,
And are acquainted with all my ways. 4 For there
is not a word on my tongue, But behold, O LORD,
You know it altogether. 5 You have hedged me
behind and before, And laid Your hand upon me.
6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; It is
high, I cannot attain it.