... never fully regained, or the children suffer from being a part of a broken family. All of this for the short pleasures of sin! A few years ago, the best-known pickpocket in Cleveland, Ohio, a man by the name of Louis Finkelstein, died. He was known by police officers all across the country as "Louis the Dip." For 50 years he had pursued his career of filching items from other people's pockets. The police said he must have stolen hundreds of thousands of dollars in his lifetime. When he died at the age of 68 ...
Solomon Builds the Temple: We now enter the section in which the long-awaited process of building the temple is described. The reader’s expectations have already been focused on the actual building of the temple in Jerusalem from the narration of David’s history in 1 Chronicles 21–22 and 28–29. The Chronicler used 1 Kings 6–7 as his main source for the description of the building of the temple under Solomon. But as has become familiar to the reader, the Chronicler not only abbreviated the source account ...
Rehoboam Fortifies Judah: 11:5–12 This section does not occur in the source text in Kings or anywhere else in the Hebrew Bible. Some scholars suggest that the city list provided here should rather be associated with the time of Hezekiah. Although the content of this section would probably not fit into the historical-geographic context of Rehoboam, it is quite clear what the Chronicler’s intention was with these verses. After the conclusion of the schism in the previous section, it was necessary to ...
