Description: This message looks at the life of Solomon, a king whose fame turned the heads of the most elite and powerful people of the world. Specifically, what did he get right?

1. “He Got
Something
Right”

4. Fast Facts on Solomon:
° He was the son of King David and of
Bathsheba.
° Was favored and loved by God.
° He was twenty years old when be
became king.
° He ruled Israel for forty years and
died around age sixty.
° He spoke 3,000 proverbs (wise
sayings) and wrote 1,005 songs.
° He wrote two Psalms (72 and 127).
He also wrote most of Proverbs, Song
of Songs, and Ecclesiastes.

5. Fast Facts on Solomon:
° He was the wisest man of his time and
in all of history.
° He was the richest king on the earth.
- The weight of gold that Solomon
received yearly was 666 talents, not
including the revenues brought in by
merchants and traders. Also all the kings
of Arabia and the governors of the land
brought gold and silver to Solomon.
II Chronicles 9:13-14
- King Solomon was greater in riches and
wisdom than all the other kings of the earth!
II Chronicles 9:22

6. Fast Facts on Solomon:
° He had 1,400 chariots and 12,000 horses.
° He had 700 wives of royal birth and 300
concubines.
° God chose him to build the Temple.
° God manifested himself to Solomon and
all Israel in the Temple.
° God spoke personally to Solomon twice.
- The Lord highly exalted Solomon in the
sight of all Israel and bestowed on him
royal splendor such as no king over Israel
ever had before.
II Chronicles 29:25

7. What Did He Get Right?
- Solomon cleaned up Adonijah’s
rebellion against the kingdom.

8. What Did He Get Right?
- Solomon cleaned up Adonijah’s
rebellion against the kingdom.
Now Adonijah, whose mother was
Haggith (Haggith was one of David’s
wives) put himself forward and said,
“I will be king.”
1 Kings 1:5

9. What Did He Get Right?
- Solomon cleaned up Adonijah’s
rebellion against the kingdom.
“If he shows himself to be a worthy
man, not a hair of his head will fall to
the ground; but if evil is found in him,
he will die.”
1 Kings 1:52

10. What Did He Get Right?
- He carried out his father’s
orders, showing loyalty to God’s
succession plan.

11. What Did He Get Right?
- He carried out his father’s
orders, showing loyalty to God’s
succession plan.
“You have made your servant king in
place of my father David, but I am only
a little child, and I don’t know how to
carry out my duties!”
1 Kings 3:7

12. What Did He Get Right?
- He carried out his father’s
orders, showing loyalty to God’s
succession plan.
“Now, do not consider (Joab) innocent.
Your are a man of wisdom; you will
know what to do to him. Bring his grey
head down to the grave in blood.”
1 Kings 2:9

13. What Did He Get Right?
- He humbled himself before the
Lord.

14. What Did He Get Right?
- He humbled himself before the
Lord.
“You have shown great kindness to
your servant, my father David, because
he was faithful to you and righteous
and upright in heart. You have
continued this great kindness to him
and have given him a son to sit on his
throne this very day. Now, O LORD my
God, you have made your servant king in
place of my father David.”

15. What Did He Get Right?
- He humbled himself before the
Lord.
“But I am only a little child and do
not know how to carry out my duties.
Your servant is here among the
people you have chosen, a great
people, too numerous to count or
number. So give your servant a
discerning heart to govern your
people and to distinguish between
right and wrong. For who is able to
govern this great people of yours?”
1 Kings 3:6-9

16. What Did He Get Right?
- Recognized the Goodness of God
AND the character traits of his
father, David.

17. What Did He Get Right?
- acknowledged that his father
David’s God was also HIS GOD.

18. What Did He Get Right?
- asked for a discerning heart to
govern the people and the ability
to distinguish right from wrong.

19. What Did He Get Right?
- asked for a discerning heart to
govern the people and the ability
to distinguish right from wrong.
“And you, my son Solomon,
acknowledge the God of your father,
and serve Him with wholehearted
devotion and with a willing mind, for
the Lord searches every heart and
understands every motive behind
the thoughts.”
I Chronicles 28:9

20. What Did He Get Right?
- asked for a discerning heart to
govern the people and the ability
to distinguish right from wrong.
“I am about to go the way of all the
earth,” David said. “So be strong, show
yourself a man, and observe what the
Lord your God requires: Walk in his
ways, and keep his decrees and
commands, his laws and requirements,
as written in the Law of Moses, so that
you may prosper in all you do and
wherever you go . . . ”
I Kings 2:2-3

21. What Did He Get Right?
- asked for a discerning heart to
govern the people and the ability
to distinguish right from wrong.
“Above all else, guard your heart, for it
is the wellspring of life.”
Proverbs 4:23

22. What Did He Get Right?
- asked for a discerning heart to
govern the people and the ability
to distinguish right from wrong.
“The heart is essentially the whole man,
with all his attributes, physical,
intellectual and psychological, of which
the Hebrew thought and spoke, and the
heart was conceived of as the governing
center for all of these. It is the heart
which makes a man . . . what he is, and
governs all his actions. Character,
personality, will, mind are modern terms
which all reflect something of the
meaning of ‘heart’ in its biblical usage.”
New Bible Dictionary

23. What Did He Get Right?
- asked for a discerning heart to
govern the people and the ability
to distinguish right from wrong.
“Solomon wanted a ‘hearing heart.’
True understanding comes from hearing
what God has to say, and to the Old
Testament Jew, ‘hearing’ meant
‘obeying.’”
Warren Wiersbe Commentary

24. Questions to Consider:
Where’s your heart today?
Have you ever prayed to have a
“hearing heart?”
Do you want to listen to God’s Word in
order to guard your life — your words,
your actions, attitudes, obedience?
Are you “getting it right?”