May 29

<p>I Kings 1-3 We are in the Nation Stream today and we say goodbye to King David. We are reading from the Modern English Version this week. <span style="font-size: 1rem;">7streamsmethod.com | @7StreamsMethod | @serenatravis | #7Streams</span> | <a href= "https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=YPPA8XGTQ2YHU">Donate</a> Commentary by Dr. Drake Travis</p> <div>"Lord we ask for your wisdom too.  Thank you for granting what is right to those who ask.  Amen."</div> <div><strong>Kings is good especially for noting dates and chronology. It is the history that is concurrent (much of it is anyway) with Chronicles.  Chronicles is written from the perspective of the south where the Temple and Jerusalem was.  Kings is written in the north and mostly of the activity there.  We see the phrase, "seek the Lord" in Chronicles about two dozen times where in those same stories found in Kings, that phrase is not in the literature.  So Kings [<em>after</em> the split in ch. 12] and the story of the north Kingdom is narrating the lives of these tribes gone deliberately pagan, whereas in Chronicles narrating the life in the south, there are at least periods of reform and an attempt to follow God. Of the 20 kings of the northern Kingdom from 930 - 722 B.C. none were descendants of David. Whereas in the south, 19 of the 20 kings were descendants of David. </strong></div> <p>1 - Kings opens with David being nearly out of time and it is getting nervy in Jerusalem as Solomon is to be the king in succession, but Adonijah thinks <em>he </em>should be king. Adonijah's older brothers Absalom, Amnon, and an obscure brother "Chiliab" were all dead so Adonijah assumed it was all his now. Some prominent people sided with Adonijah, but the vital leaders did not. Adonijah became pompous and forceful and started parading and making sacrifices and struck up the party as if he were already the king. In another part of town, Bathsheba; Solomon's mother, and Nathan met with David to insist that David assert what ought to be d