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Weekly Guide：2024-2025 Week 29
July 21, 2024
Week 29 Day 1: Taking a Census ⇧ ⇩
Question
What sin did David commit in his old age?
Scripture Reading
Meditation: God’s Story
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David ordered Joab to take a census of Israel and Judah.
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David knew he committed great sin and was conscience-stricken after the census was completed.
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David picked plague out of the choice of three disasters. Seventy thousand from Dan to Beersheba died.
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David built an altar for God, sacrificed burnt offering and fellowship offering. The plague on Israel stopped.
Meditation: My Story
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Identity - What did David pick out of the three disasters God let him choose from? Why? How do I view God’s discipline?
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Integrity - Why did David take census? What similar mistakes have I done in my life? What does this remind me of?
Prayer
Notes and Responses
Week 29 Day 2: Success of Throne ⇧ ⇩
Question
How did Solomon succeed David to become king for he was not David’s first born?
Scripture Reading
Meditation: God’s Story
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David was very old. Adonijah conspired with Joab and Abiathar in attempt to usurp the throne.
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Nathan the prophet and Solomon’s mother Bathsheba went to David to uncover the conspiracy.
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David took an oath by the Lord to make Solomon king and anointed him in Gihon. David gave a charge to Solomon then died.
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Solomon made Shimei to promise to stay in Jerusalem. Shimei broke the promise and was struck down.
Meditation: My Story
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Integrity - Adonijah attempted to usurp the throne and David had never rebuked him. David did not fulfill his responsibility as a father. He did not discipline his children and got to taste the consequences. For us who are parents, what can we learn from David’s example?
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Fidelity - Right after learning Adonijah’s plan, David acted wisely and fulfilled his promise to have Solomon succeed him to the throne. David was decisive under God’s witness. Likewise, we may be decisive without any doubt if we act in His Name.
Prayer
Notes and Responses
Week 59 Day 16: A Prosperous Kingdom ⇧ ⇩
Question
What did Solomon ask the Lord for?
Scripture Reading
Meditation: God’s Story
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Solomon married Pharaoh’s daughter while the Israelites were still sacrificing at the high places.
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Solomon asked the Lord for a discerning heart. The Lord was pleased and gave Solomon the wisdom to govern.
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God gave Solomon a wise and discerning heart, faithful officials and governors, gave prosperity for all people, and peace on all sides.
Meditation: My Story
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Identity - Why was God pleased with what Solomon asked for? What do I ask for in my prayers? Make a connection to what Jesus taught us in His Sermon on the Mount. What does it remind me of?
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Identity - God’s promise to Abraham of kingdom, people, and blessings is now becoming a reality under Solomon’s reign. What promise from God have become a reality in my life?
Prayer
Notes and Responses
Week 29 Day 4: Building the Temple ⇧ ⇩
Question
How did Solomon start in building the temple?
Scripture Reading
Meditation: God’s Story
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Solomon made a treaty with Hiram king of Tyre to build the temple. They transported lumbers on the sea from Lebanon to Israel.
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Four hundred and eightieth year after the Israelites came out of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, he began to build the temple of the Lord.
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Israelites worked together to build the temple. The inner rooms, cherubim, and outer rooms all followed the Lord’s command. Seven years spanned in building the temple.
Meditation: My Story
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Identity - What was the first building being constructed in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign? Why did he start from this building first? What am I building up? What is the most important construction of my life?
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Fidelity - Israelites worked with foreigners to build the temple. How do I see my own service? How do I see those co-workers of mine who are yet to believe in the Lord? How may I approach them?
Prayer
Notes and Responses
Week 29 Day 5: Building the Palace ⇧ ⇩
Question
What did Solomon build next?
Scripture Reading
Meditation: God’s Story
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It took Solomon thirteen years to complete the construction of his palace. He also built the Palace of the Forest of Lebanon.
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Solomon brought Huram from Tyre to cast bronze pillars, to cast the Sea of cast metal, to make movable bronze stands and bronze basins.
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Solomon also made the golden altar and golden tables for the Lord’s temple, the golden lampstands and the gold floral works, lamps, tongs, pure gold basins, wick trimmers, sprinkling bowls, dishes and censers, the gold sockets for the doors of the innermost room, the Most Holy Place, and also for the doors of the main hall of the temple.
Meditation: My Story
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Identity - How much time did Solomon spend on each building the temple and palace? What are the sizes of the temple and palace? How do I think about Solomon’s action? How does that remind me to love God with a pure heart?
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Fidelity - Compare Solomon’s temple to Moses’ tent of meeting (Exodus 25-27, 30-31.) What were the similarities and differences? What similarities and differences are there in their constructions? How can I serve to please God?
Prayer
Notes and Responses
Week 29 Day 6: Dedication of Temple ⇧ ⇮
Question
How did Solomon dedicate the completed temple to God?
Scripture Reading
Meditation: God’s Story
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Solomon summoned the elders of Israel, all the heads of the tribes and the chiefs of the Israelite families, to bring up the ark of the Lord’s covenant from the City of David. The glory of the Lord filled His temple.
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King explained to whole assembly of Israel the purpose for constructing the temple, prayed to the Lord and then blessed them.
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King sacrificed offers to the Lord with the whole assembly of Israel.
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King Solomon gave twenty towns in Galilee to Hiram king of Tyre. King Solomon conscripted foreigner as forced labor.
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Three times a year Solomon sacrificed burnt offerings and fellowship offerings on the altar he had built for the Lord, burning incense before the Lord along with them.
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King Solomon also built ships at Ezion Geber, which is near Elath in Edom, on the shore of the Red Sea.
Meditation: My Story
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Walking with God - Solomon brought the ark into the temple and God’s glory filled the temple. Where is God’s glory now that He dwells in us today? (John 1:14, 2 Corinthians 3:18)
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Identity - Solomon’s prayer to the Lord included thanksgiving, petition, repentance, and blessings. How may I incorporate all these into my prayer?