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🗓️ 21 June 2022
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0:00.0 | Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble and I'm your host for the Bible recap. |
0:13.2 | The last time we dropped in on Solomon's story, he had just finished building his empire, |
0:17.6 | so it's no surprise that word about him spreads quickly, and today a foreign queen travels |
0:22.6 | a long way to visit him. |
0:24.4 | The queen of Sheba shows up with a lot of people and camels and gifts, as well as a lot |
0:28.9 | of questions, and Solomon answers them all. |
0:32.9 | She's dumbfounded. |
0:34.6 | She's also taken aback by how wealthy he is. |
0:37.9 | She praises him for his prosperity and his wisdom, and she points out that even the people |
0:42.1 | who work for him really seem to like him. |
0:44.5 | That's unusual for a king, especially in this day. |
0:47.6 | They trade gifts since she heads home to Sheba, which is probably either modern-day |
0:51.2 | Ethiopia or Yemen, they're just across the Red Sea from each other. |
0:55.2 | But before she goes, this pagan queen even praises God for establishing him as king, and |
1:00.9 | points to God as the source of it all. |
1:03.4 | We see this idea reiterated in 1024, which says, |
1:06.9 | The whole earth sought the presence of Solomon to hear his wisdom, which God had put into |
1:11.7 | his mind. |
1:13.2 | There is no wisdom apart from God. |
1:15.3 | He owns it all, and anyone who has it got it from him. |
1:19.6 | Solomon asked God for this wisdom, and we can too. |
1:23.0 | James 1.5 says, If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God who gives generously to all |
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