BSF Study Questions People of the Promised Land 1: Lesson 29, Day 4: 1 Kings 14-26

Summary of 1 Kings 11:14-26:

Hadad the Edomite survived Joab’s attempt to destroy the Edomites by fleeing to Egypt and found favor with Pharaoh. However, he heard both David and Joab had died, so he returned to Israel against Solomon. Another enemy, Rezon son of Eliada rose up against Solomon as well. He ruled in Aram. Jeroboam, one of Solomon’s officials, rebels as well against King Solomon.

BSF Study Questions People of the Promised Land 1: Lesson 29, Day 4: 1 Kings 11:14-26:

9) Hadad the Edomite survived Joab’s attempt to destroy the Edomites by fleeing to Egypt and found favor with Pharaoh. However, he heard both David and Joab had died, so he returned to Israel against Solomon. Another enemy, Rezon son of Eliada rose up against Solomon as well. He ruled in Aram. Jeroboam, one of Solomon’s officials, rebels as well against King Solomon. All Solomon had to do was follow God’s rules, laws, and decrees, and he’d receive all the promises God gave to David. He didn’t; thus, God will cut off Israel from the land He has given them, abandon the temple, and become an object of ridicule.

10) The world opposes Christians and persecutes them. They face the powers of the dark and spiritual forces of evil. All are tempted by sin. Everything of the world — the cravings of sinful man, the lust of his eyes, and the boasting of what he has and has done — comes from the world.

11) Personal Question. My answer: I pray to God and read His word in an effort to understand what He is trying to teach me. Oppositions and hardships keep you humble, keep you on His path, and make you buckle down even more to accomplish His will in this world.

Conclusions BSF Study Questions People of the Promised Land 1 Lesson 29 Day 4: 1 Kings 11:14-26:

God is fulfilling His plans by having enemies come against Solomon. Consequences from sin are never fun.

End Notes BSF Study Questions People of the Promised Land 1 Lesson 29, Day 4: 1 Kings 11:14-26:

Hadad sought to avenge his conquered people. He found refuge and support in Egypt. We are not told specifically how Hadad troubled or was an adversary to Solomon, only that he returned to bother Solomon with the permission of Pharaoh.

As God allowed an adversary from the south (Hadad, 1 Kings 11:14-22), so God also allowed adversaries to come against Solomon from the north. In some ways, men and women are shaped by their adversaries, and especially by their response to those adversaries.

Jeroboam was different from the two previously mentioned adversaries of Solomon because he was a fellow Israelite.