At last a prophet delivered to Solomon the startling message, “I will surely tear the kingdom away from you and give it to your servant. Nevertheless I will not do it in your days, for the sake of your father David; I will tear it out of the hand of your son.” Verses 11, 12.
Awakened as from a dream by this sentence of judgment, Solomon began to see how foolish he had been. With mind and body enfeebled, he turned from earth’s polluted water sources to drink once more at the fountain of life. Because he seemed unable to turn from folly, the fear of utter ruin had long troubled him. But now, in the message given him, he detected a ray of hope. God stood ready to deliver him from a slavery more cruel than the grave, and from which he had no power to free himself.
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