Then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them and this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I cast out of my sight and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all people: God has kept His Word! He has uproot ed the Jews from their land.
But, the king's commercial enterprises and determined desire for worldly glory his encouraging an influx of foreign people and his taste for foreign luxuries, rapidly corrupted his own mind and that of this subjects, so that they turned from following God, they and their children. The conditions of God's covenant with Solomon, and the consequences of breaking them, is clearly stated here.
God warned Solomon that he and his people must not be high-minded, but fear. But if ye shall at all turn from following me, ye or your children, and will not keep my commandments and my statutes which I have set before you, but go and serve other gods, and worship them: Then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them and this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I cast out of my sight and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all people: And at this house, which is high, every one that passeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss and they shall say, Why hath the Lord done thus unto this land, and to this house? And they shall answer, Because they forsook the Lord their God, who brought forth their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and have taken hold upon other gods, and have worshipped them, and served them: therefore hath the Lord brought upon them all this evil. WHY? Because of their rebellion against God - idolatry here.ġ Kings 9:4-9 And if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded thee, and wilt keep my statutes and my judgments: Then I will establish the throne of thy kingdom upon Israel for ever, as I promised to David thy father, saying, There shall not fail thee a man upon the throne of Israel. The very name of “Jew” is a universally recognized term for extreme degradation and wretchedness. 28:37 And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations whither the Lord shall lead thee.
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