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“Take heed unto thyself; and unto the doctrine;” “that thy profiting may appear to all.”
6. Then he called for Solomon his son, and charged him to build an house for the Lord God of Israel.
7. And David said to Solomon, My son, as for me, it was in my mind to build an house unto the name of the Lord my God;
8. But the word of the Lord came to me, saying, Thou hast shed blood abundantly, and hast made great wars; thou shalt not build an house unto my name, because thou hast shed much blood upon the earth in my sight.
9. Behold, a son shall be born to thee, who shall be a man of rest; and I will give him rest from all his enemies round about; for his name shall be Solomon, and I will give peace and quietness unto Israel in his days.
10. He shall build an house for my name; and he shall be my son, and I will be his Father; and I will establish the throne of his kingdom over Israel forever.
11. Now, my son, the Lord be with thee; and prosper thou, and build the house of the Lord thy God, as he hath said of thee.
12. Only the Lord give thee wisdom and understanding, and give thee charge concerning Israel, that thou mayest keep the law of the Lord thy God.
13. Then shalt thou prosper, if thou takest heed to fulfil the statutes and judgments which the Lord charged Moses with concerning Israel: be strong, and of good courage; dread not, nor be dismayed.
14. Now, behold, in my trouble I have prepared for the house of the Lord an hundred thousand talents of gold, and a thousand thousand talents of silver; and of brass and iron without weight; for it is in abundance; timber also and stone have I prepared; and thou mayest add thereto.
15. Moreover, there are workmen with thee in abundance, hewers and workers of stone and timber, and all manner of cunning workmen for every manner of work.
16. Of the gold, the silver, and the brass, and the iron, there is no number. Arise therefore, and be doing, and the Lord be with thee.
Golden Text: “Blessed are they that dwell in thy house; they will be still praising thee.” Ps. 84:4.
NOTE.—In regard to the building of the temple and further instructions concerning it see 1 Chron. 22:17–19 and 1 Chron. 28 and 29. In Psalm 84 will also be seen something of David’s anxiety to see completed that work in which the Lord had forbidden him to participate on account of his many bloody wars. For the building and maintenance of the spiritual temple, see Eph. 2:20–22; 2 Cor. 6:16; Rev. 3:12; 1 Cor. 3:16, 17. For the existence of a temple in heaven and the contents thereof, see Rev. 7:15; 11:9; Heb. 8:1–5, which plainly show the model (Ex. 25:40) after which the tabernacle of the wilderness and the temple of Solomon were fashioned. “The ark of his testament” (Rev. 11:19) is the ark containing God’s unchangeable law, which the “angels that excel in strength” are careful to keep (Ps. 103:20), and men who are aspiring to their exalted position should not seek to avoid.
SUGGESTIVE QUESTIONS.
(1) What charge did David give to his son Solomon? Verse 6. Note 1. (2) What had he sworn concerning Solomon? Note 1. (3) What had it been David’s intention to do? Verse 7. Note 2. (4) Why could not David build the house? Verse 8. Note 3. (5) What would be the characteristic of the man who was to succeed David? First clause verse 9. (6) What promise did the Lord give concerning his reign? Verse 9. (7) What is the meaning of the name “Solomon”? Note 4. (8) What work was he to perform? First clause verse 10. (9) Into what close relationship would the Lord take him? Second clause verse 10. (10) What other promise did the Lord make concerning the throne? Last clause verse 10. (11) What admonition did David give Solomon? Verse 11. (12) What blessing did David desire for Solomon? First clause verse 12. (13) What solemn duty did he enjoin? Last clause verse 12. Note 5. (14) What blessing did David say would attend the faithful discharge of this duty? First part verse 13. (15) With what encouraging admonition did he close his charge to the young king? Last part verse 13. (16) What preparation of material had David made for the house of the Lord? Verse 14. Note 6. (17) What other provisions had been made, that delay might be avoided? Verses 15, 16. (18) How did David show his earnestness in the speedy performance of the work? Last part verse 16.
NOTES.
1. Called for Solomon.—David’s work on earth was drawing to a close. Tho only seventy years old when death overtook him, his exposures, wars, and the multitude of his cares, with the afflictions that had come to him, had made him an “old, worn-out man.” In the last few years of his life he had made extensive preparations for building the Lord’s house. But in the midst of his preparations the Lord speaks to him, telling him why he was unfitted for so sacred a work. David, therefore, summons his son Solomon, who he had sworn (1 Kings 1:17) should be the successor to the throne, and lays upon him the responsibility of the work.
2. It was in my mind.—It is not to be supposed that God did not accept the purpose, and the heart which proposed it, even tho the carrying out of the purpose was acceptable only at the hands of another.
3. Thou shalt not build.—Here is a great lesson. Armed expeditions, military display, and the shedding of man’s blood, must not be associated with the erection of the great symbol of the spiritual house of God, the gathering out of Christ’s body, the church. The destruction of men is not reconcilable with that which symbolizes man’s salvation. David is not blamed for the wars. They were necessary to preserve the nation which God had intrusted with his work and his law; but the man of many wars was unfitted for the building of a temple to be occupied by the Prince of Peace.
4. His name shall be Solomon.—The name was in itself a prophecy of the character of his reign. Solomon means Peaceful. He was a fitting type of Christ, the “King of Peace,” “our peace” (see Heb. 7:2; Eph. 2:14), who should build the house of the Lord while ruling upon his Father’s throne (Zech. 6:12, 13).
5. Keep the law.—This admonition to Solomon is in keeping with the special burden of the Psalms of David. It was eminently fitting that he through whose seed Christ should come should hold in highest reverence the law which Christ had given on Mount Sinai. Note the following: “His delight is in the law of the Lord; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.” Ps. 1:2. “The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul.” Ps. 19:7. “Thy law is within my heart.” Ps. 40:8. “I shall keep thy law.” Ps. 119:34. “Thy law is my delight.” Ps. 119:77. “O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day.” Ps. 119:97. “Thy law is the truth.” Ps. 119:142. “Every one of thy righteous judgments endureth forever.” Ps. 119:160. Here is solid foundation for the belief in the perpetuity and unchangeableness of God’s holy law. Only those of carnal heart hate God’s law. Rom. 8:7.
6. I have prepared for the house of the Lord, etc.—The preparations which David had made for the temple are almost beyond conception. The gold and silver alone, according to conservative reckoning, is placed at $2,112,000,000; and if the reckoning of some is accepted, it would be more than twice that amount. However, when we remember David’s statement, that it was to be “exceeding magnifical, of fame and of glory throughout all countries,” we may expect preparations of an exhaustive character.
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—The queen of Sweden has joined the Salvation Army.
—Advices from Abyssinia state that King Menelek is again preparing for war.
—Molla Rega, who assassinated the shah of Persia, was hanged at Teheran on August 12.
—Baroness Tennyson, widow of the late poet laureate of England, died at her home August 10.
—There are 10,000 Spanish soldiers in the hospitals of Havana, 2,000 of whom are suffering from yellow fever.
—Two Japanese have purchased 300,000 acres of land in Mexico, and expect to establish a Japanese colony there.
—A French chemist has discovered seven different species of fish from whose eggs a fine quality of silk can be made.
—M. A. De Gerlache, the Belgian explorer, will start on an expedition to the Antarctic regions about the middle of September.
—The International Socialists Trades Congress in London declares in favor of free education from kindergarten to university.
—The International Congress for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals resolves to bring about the legal prohibition of vivisection.
—The French Government has demanded of Korea a franchise for the building of a railroad by French citizens from Seoul to Mokupo.
—Farmers in the Fraser River valley, B. C., are suffering from a plague of mosquitoes, some of them having been compelled to abandon their farms.
—A flood on the River Kistna, in Bombay, August 14, has rendered thousands of people homeless. By the capsizing of a river boat 200 were drowned.
—An Italian man-of-war has captured and taken to the prize port of Masowah the Dutch steamer Doelwyk, which was carrying 34,000 rifles to king Menelek, of Abyssinia.
—The cholera outbreak in Egypt has now spread so that it is entirely beyond the control of the sanitary authorities. The record of thirteen days shows a death list of 2,000.
—The Romish priests of Ecuador have no love for President Alfaro or the liberal reforms conducted by him, and the revolution now in progress there is said to be due to their influence.
—Two enterprising Americans in Guatemala have been buying up fifty-cent dollars and coining them into American dollars, and it is stated that the fraud has already reached the sum of $2,500,000.
—On the occasion of the marriage of Princess Maud she received a gold antique bracelet from the pope, which is interpreted as a proof of the wish of the vatican to be on friendly terms with the Anglicans.
—The Yaqui Indians of Mexico are on the war path, the outbreak being due to the work of Señorita Teresa Urrea, who is regarded by the Yaquis as a saint, and who is claimed to have wonderful powers as a divine healer.
—A rebellion has broken out in the island of Formosa, due to the alleged cruelties of the Japanese officials. It is claimed on good authority that the Japanese are conducting a most cruel war of extermination in the island.
—Prof. Otto Lilienthal, the well-known flying-machine inventor of Berlin, was hurled to the ground on August 11 by the collapse of his flying apparatus, and sustained injuries from which he died twenty-four hours later.
—The Cretan revolutionists, despairing of European diplomacy and Turkish bad faith, have dissolved their reform government and established a provisional revolutionary government, with Geromostaros, who is 92 years old, as president.
—The man who stole a $12,600 gold brick from the bank of Ensenada, Mexico, and was acquitted for lack of evidence, was caught on August 8 in the act of digging up the treasure; and, altho the authorities secured the brick, they were compelled to release the culprit, as he could not be brought to trial twice for the same crime.
—Spain has filed a claim for damages against the United States in consequence of filibustering expeditions sent to Cuba from American ports. This is believed by many to be a ruse for provoking war with the United States, as it is well known that no American congress would ever appropriate a dollar in the payment of such a claim.
—A Sunday newspaper has been started in Honolulu, and as a result the advocates of Sunday observance are seeking to revive a class of religious legislation, which for a long time has been a dead letter, in order that the paper may be suppressed.
—An English syndicate has made arrangements with the Mexican Government for finishing and leasing the Tehuantepec Isthmus Railway, and will enter into sharp competition with lines now plying between San Francisco and eastern and European ports.
—Evidences of a prehistoric race have recently been discovered near Quatsino, on the island of Vancouver, in the shape of footprints in a rocky hillside, which are twenty-nine inches long and nine feet apart. It is estimated that this giant of other days must have been nearly twenty feet tall.
—A Cuban train carrying passengers and troops was wrecked by an explosion of dynamite recently, in which a number of train hands, soldiers, and passengers were injured, one mortally. It was the work of the insurgents, who have frequently warned the inhabitants against riding on trains conveying troops.
—News from Kansu, China, is to the effect that the famous Tung Tuhsiang, in obedience to the imperial command, has begun a systematic massacre of all Mohammedans he may come across. At Hsining he slew 3,000 men and sold their wives and female children. The Mohammedans across the Russian border have promised assistance to their Chinese brethren, and it is feared that the spark lighted near the Thibetan border may grow into a great conflagration, embracing central Asia and India.
—Dr. Fridtjof Nansen, who started on Aug. 3, 1893, in a specially constructed ship, the Fram, to explore the regions of the north pole, has returned to civilization, having reached a higher latitude than any previous polar explorer, 86 degrees and 14 minutes, or within 225 miles of the yet unreachable pole. Nansen and one of his lieutenants left the vessel in order to make independent explorations, and after making the high latitude mentioned, met the “Jackson Harmsworth” expedition at Franz Josef Land, and returned to civilization in the English ship Windward. The result of the expedition seems to disprove the theory that there is an open polar sea.
—The Turkish Government has finally rejected the demands of the Christians of Crete, except so far as the provisions of the convention and general amnesty to the insurgents is concerned. The Macedonian insurgents fought a battle with the Turkish soldiers on August 11, and routed them, with a loss of fifty killed. The powers are urging Greece to put an immediate stop to all relief or filibustering expeditions to Crete. The Grecian Government replies that this is impossible, on account of the popular excitement, and further adds that it would be inhuman to leave the Cretans a helpless prey to Turkish ferocity. There is great discord among the powers with reference to the course which should be pursued, as Russia shows a disinclination to allow a very great pressure to be brought to bear upon the sultan.
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—Seventy-five of the 119 counties in Kentucky have driven out the licensed saloon.
—Plans have been filed for new buildings, costing $250,000, by the Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum of Brooklyn, N. Y.
—A clash between union and non-union workmen at Cleveland, Ohio, on August 14, resulted in the shooting of three men.
—The bottoms of iron ships are now being sheeted with copper by a process similar to that by which cutlery and jewelry are plated.
—The mill of the Sperry Flour Company at Paso Robles, Cal., was destroyed by fire on August 12. The mill was valued at $35,000.
—The clerk of the Bullion and Exchange Bank of Carson, Nevada, absconded recently, and experts report a shortage of over $74,000 in his accounts.
—As the result of a race war between white and colored laborers in Polk County, Arkansas, three negroes have been shot and a number wounded.
—The recent hot wave is said to have caused the death of George H. Miller, builder of the Capitol dome at Washington, who died on August 12, at the age of 72.
—Warren & Co.'s electrical supply factory in New York City was destroyed by fire on August 11, causing a loss of $200,000 and the lives of five employees and firemen.
—The wife of President Dole, of the Hawaiian republic, is now in this country, arranging for the matriculation of her nephew at Williams College, Williamstown, Mass.
—The big dry dock at the Brooklyn Navy Yard collapsed on August 8 and nearly destroyed the new torpedo boat Ericsson, as well as a number of other vessels in its immediate vicinity.
—William J. Bryan and Arthur Sewall were formally notified, at Madison Square Garden, N. Y., on August 12, of their selection by the Democratic party for president and vice president of the United States.
—At a Christian Alliance camp-meeting at Old Orchard, Maine, on August 9, the sum of $101,324 was raised for foreign missions, $2,500 of which will be used for building two steam launches for the Kongo mission.
—The wonderful Roentgen ray, which enables the eye to see through opaque substances, has been declared by Nicola Tesla to be composed of material particles instead of simply light waves, as heretofore supposed.
—A gang of swindlers operating under various names in New York and Chicago was arrested on August 9, after having amassed a fortune of nearly or quite a million dollars by fraudulent misrepresentation.
—According to reports from Alaska, a young whale, captured there two years ago, has been tamed and trained to work in harness. The owners are contemplating a trip down the coast with this unique propeller.
—Four bathers caught in the undertow on Lake Michigan on August 9 were drowned. Five yachtsmen were drowned in the Detroit River on the same day, in consequence of a heavy storm which capsized their boat.
—The Pacific Coast Steamship Company's steamer St. Paul was wrecked near Monterey on the night of August 10 while a thick fog obscured the rocky shore. The passengers were safely landed, but the vessel will be a complete loss.
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—A party of Louisiana negroes employed in building railroads in Guatemala, tell harrowing tales of their treatment at the hands of the contractors. In attempting to escape, four of the negroes were shot by the soldiers detailed to guard them.
—By the derailment of a trolley car at Columbia, Pa., on August 9, three persons were killed and fifteen more or less injured. The next day, at Lancaster, Pa., a car of the same kind ran away and killed eleven persons, and injured about fifty more.
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