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We are walking through the book of First Kings.

Today we're in chapters 10 through 12.

And Solomon, he's been our main guy.

But in these chapters today, we're going to see Solomon pass away and his reign end. So Paul, can you walk

us through these three chapters? Yeah, so we're getting the end of Solomon's reign and kind of the

beginning of the split of the nation that we mentioned earlier a few days ago. And unfortunately,

as the text has foreshadowed, Solomon's reign doesn't end in a very good place.

It ends with him abandoning God and worshipping the idols of his foreign wives that God actually

explicitly told him not to marry.

And so while in 1st and 2nd Samuel, Saul, kind of had no heart for God, David had a whole

heart for God.

Solomon kind of has a half heart for God is the best way I think we can describe it. And it would have been kind of odd for Israel to hear that,

that Solomon was half-hearted because on the outside, he was very successful. He was very rich. He

had lots of wives. He built this big massive temple complex and

his own palace. But remember that First and Second Kings is looking back and saying, how did we get here?

How did we end up in exile? And they're not looking at the external success of Solomon. They're looking at his heart and realizing,

wait, he was worshipping other gods. And kind of like in Samuel, when David is called as king,

it says that man looks at outward stature, but God looks at the heart, right? And so it shouldn't really be surprising that

these are pivotal chapters in the narrative. It's where we see the kingdom divided. And from this

point onward, there are two kingdoms. And so I'll just kind of give a summary just to help us as we

read. We have the northern kingdom, which is called Israel. And it's basically made up of 10 tribes of Israel. And then we have the northern kingdom, which is called Israel, and it's basically made up of

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