Week 19 1 Chronicles
About forty days ago – April 3/21 – I posted on Solomon. At the time I was thinking about how Solomon’s Temple-building project seemed quite a bit different from when Israel built the Tabernacle in the wilderness. One point of difference was that the Lord gave Moses very specific directions about constructing the Tabernacle. I said that in contrast: Solomon didn’t go to Sinai and the bible doesn’t say anything about him getting blueprints from the Lord.
So…now I have to revise that idea because of what I read a couple of days ago. David was handing over the reins of power to Solomon: then David gave Solomon the plans for the Temple and its surroundings, including the treasuries, the upstairs rooms, the inner rooms… and et cetera for eight more verses of specifications. Then David ended by saying: every part of this plan…was given to me in writing from the hand of the Lord.
In April I said that the bible didn’t say anything about Solomon getting blueprints from the Lord. And I guess I could argue that that was technically true (he didn’t get them directly from the Lord). But non-technically I was wrong. Solomon got them from the Lord via his dad.
So a good bible-reading reminder for me is this: if I don’t keep reading I might miss a chance to discover that I’m wrong.
Note: quotes from 1 Chronicles 2:11 & 19 (NLT)