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Weekly Guide：2024-2025 Week 37
September 15, 2024
Week 37 Day 1: Appearing of God ⇧ ⇩
Question
How did God appear to Solomon?
Scripture Reading
Meditation: God’s Story
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When Solomon finished praying, fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices, and the glory of the Lord filled the temple.
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King and all the people offered sacrifices before the Lord.
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Solomon observed the festival at that time for seven days with all Israel.
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Lord appeared to Solomon and told him his prayer was heard and “If you walk before me faithfully as David your father did, and do all I command, and observe my decrees and laws, I will establish your royal throne, as I covenanted with David your father when I said, ‘You shall never fail to have a successor to rule over Israel.’ But if you turn away and forsake the decrees and commands I have given you and go off to serve other gods and worship them, then I will uproot Israel from my land.”
Meditation: My Story
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Identity - God promises if we will humble ourselves and pray and seek His face and turn from our wicked ways, then He will hear from heaven, and He will forgive our sin and will heal our land. How does this truth help me when I’m low and need help?
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Fidelity - What was the reason God accepted the temple Solomon built and the burnt offering? Has God accepted my offerings? Why?
Prayer
Notes and Responses
Week 37 Day 2: Time of Prosperity ⇧ ⇩
Question
How did Solomon place the Israelites and foreigners after the completion of the temple and palace?
Scripture Reading
Meditation: God’s Story
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Solomon rebuilt the villages that Hiram had given him, and settled Israelites in them.
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Solomon conscripted the descendants of all those people remaining in the land who were not Israelites to serve as slave labor.
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Solomon did not make slaves of the Israelites for his work; they were his fighting men, commanders of his captains, and commanders of his chariots and charioteers.
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On the altar of the Lord that he had built in front of the portico, Solomon sacrificed burnt offerings to the Lord.
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In keeping with the ordinance of his father David, he appointed the divisions of the priests for their duties.
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All Solomon’s work was carried out, so the temple of the Lord was finished.
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Hiram sent Solomon ships commanded by his own men, sailors who knew the sea.
Meditation: My Story
- Fidelity - Solomon built the temple and rebuilt the villages so that the Israelites may settle there. What effect did his action bring? How should I pray for the leaders of my country?
Prayer
Notes and Responses
Week 37 Day 3: King of Wisdom ⇧ ⇩
Question
How was Solomon known as a king?
Scripture Reading
Meditation: God’s Story
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The queen of Sheba heard of Solomon’s fame, she came to Jerusalem to test him with hard questions.
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The weight of the gold that Solomon received yearly was 666 talents.
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King Solomon was greater in riches and wisdom than all the other kings of the earth. All the kings of the earth sought audience with Solomon to hear the wisdom God had put in his heart.
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Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years. Then he rested with his ancestors and Rehoboam his son succeeded him as king.
Meditation: My Story
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Identity - The riches of Solomon came from God by His promise. God also promises fulfilled lives to all His children. How do I have that life?
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Fidelity - The queen of Sheba went to see Solomon for his wisdom. How may I bring people to Christ by His pleasing aroma?
Prayer
Notes and Responses
Week 37 Day 4: Reign of Rehoboam ⇧ ⇩
Question
How was he reign of king Rehoboam?
Scripture Reading
Meditation: God’s Story
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Rehoboam rejected the advice the elders gave him but consulted the young men and brought hardship to Israelites.
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When all Israel saw that the king refused to listen to them, they all went home.
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God prohibited Rehoboam to fight against Jeroboam.
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The priests and Levites from all their districts throughout Israel sided with Rehoboam.
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Rehoboam had wives and children.
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After Rehoboam’s position as king was established and he had become strong, he and all Israel with him abandoned the law of the Lord.
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Because they had been unfaithful to the Lord, Shishak king of Egypt attacked Jerusalem in the fifth year of King Rehoboam.
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Shishak carried off the treasures of the temple of the Lord and the treasures of the royal palace. He took everything, including the gold shields Solomon had made.
Meditation: My Story
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Identity - Rehoboam abandoned God when he had become strong. What was he leaning on? How may I avoid being complacent in my abundantly fulfilled life?
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Community - Facing the Israelites’ request, Rehoboam rejected the advice the elders gave him but consulted the young men. What warning do I see in this?
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Community - God prohibited Rehoboam to fight against fellow Israelites. Do I have quarrel with my fellow Christians? What is God’s point of view on this? Can I obey God’s will?
Prayer
Notes and Responses
Week 37 Day 5: Judah King Abijah ⇧ ⇩
Question
How was Abijah son of Rehoboam’s reigning as king?
Scripture Reading
Meditation: God’s Story
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In the eighteenth year of the reign of Jeroboam, Abijah became king of Judah. There was war between Abijah and Jeroboam.
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God routed Jeroboam and all Israel before Abijah and Judah.
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Jeroboam did not regain power during the time of Abijah. And the Lord struck him down and he died.
Meditation: My Story
- Integrity - Was king Abijah serving the Lord with all his heart and all his soul? What part of his life was pleasing to the Lord and what wasn’t?
Prayer
Notes and Responses
Week 37 Day 6: Asa became King ⇧ ⇮
Question
How was Asa’s life?
Scripture Reading
Meditation: God’s Story
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Abijah’s son Asa succeeded him as king, and in his days the country was at peace for ten years. Asa did what was good and right in the eyes of the Lord his God.
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Zerah the Cushite marched out against Judah, Asa went out to meet him and the Lord struck down the Cushites before Asa and Judah.
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Azariah exhorted to Asa, Judah, and Benjamites to obey God. Asa accepted.
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Asa removed the detestable idols from the whole land of Judah and Benjamin and from the towns he had captured in the hills of Ephraim. He repaired the altar of the Lord that was in front of the portico of the Lord’s temple.
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King Asa also deposed his grandmother Maakah from her position as queen mother, because she had made a repulsive image for the worship of Asherah.
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In the thirty-sixth year of Asa’s reign Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah. Asa sought help from Ben-Hadad king of Aram, who was ruling in Damascus.
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Hanani the seer rebuked Asa for relying on the king of Aram and not on the Lord. Asa was angry with the seer and brutally oppressed some of the people.
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In the forty-first year of his reign Asa died.
Meditation: My Story
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Integrity - Asa did what was right in the eyes of the Lord by removing idols and obeying God’s laws. What idols do I need to remove from my life? What laws do I need to remind myself to obey?
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Integrity - Hanani rebuked Asa but Asa did not take it well. How may I accept the criticisms and warnings from others? Would I hate them for their criticisms and retaliate?
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Integrity - There were stages in Asa’s life. He sinned in his old age that brought about the judgment. What warning do I see in this? How may I stay on the path of Christ’s salvation, not veering left or right?