(TEXT : 1 Kings 7:8)
And his house where he dwelt had another court within the porch, which was of the like work. Solomon made also an house for Pharaoh’s daughter, whom he had taken to wife, like unto this porch.
FOCUS :
The second error king Solomon made was, was that huge mistake of building a special house for a foreign “princess of Egypt” in the Kingdom of God. This would seem to have been the private residence of the queen, not the harem where all the wives and concubines were gathered. When a foreign princess is already living in a special house in the land of God, and among the people of God, then even the children of God are in a big trouble. Under no circumstances should king Solomon allowed his ego to destroy the entire the children of Israel, God’s land, and of course, eventually himself.
In addition, when you allow a foreigner to be living under the same roof with you, you might not know that you are obviously endangering yourself, and even your entire household. King Solomon have no right to build a separate house for this princess, because I believe, nothing good can come out of Egypt. But of course, he couldn’t see himself that his own downfall will be through this single mess up.
1 Kings 9:16 For Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up, and taken Gezer, and burnt it with fire, and slain the Canaanites that dwelt in the city, and given it for a present unto his daughter, Solomon’s wife.
You can imagine even the foreign king wants to rule in the Kingdom of God; because the king whom God put in charge of His Kingdom, was reckless and careless. Gezer, nearly 600 years before, has been allotted to Ephraim (Josh 16:3), and was designated as a Levitical city (Josh 21:21).
Finally, 1 Kings 9:24 But Pharaoh’s daughter came up out of the city of David unto her house which Solomon had built for her: then did he build Millo.
You can just imagine for a sec, a foreigner living in the David’s Palace on “Mount Zion.” This is the Holy house sperated unto God, and for king Solomon to have allowed his “foreign princess to be living in this house;” this is a big error. Now, it is not only about physical building alone. The same thing goes with every believers who are giving their “bodies” (Mount Zion) which is the temple of God, to a foreign princess or prince (of this world) for their dwelling; it will always backfire.
2 Chronicles 8:11 And Solomon brought up the daughter of Pharaoh out of the city of David unto the house that he had built for her: for he said, My wife shall not dwell in the house of David king of Israel, because the places are holy, whereunto the ark of the LORD hath come.
With such a Gentile wife, Solomon was staring out the wrong way, and he did not learn the lesson he should have learned, for later loved may foreign woman, who who turned his heart away from God. Solomon, like all the other types was a broken figure of Him who is to come (our Lord Jesus Christ).
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