Christian Churches of God
No. 282C
Rule of the Kings
Part III:
Solomon and the Key of David
(Edition 2.0 20000315-20060717-20070906-20150518)
The last phase of the Plan of God as reflected in the rule of the kings of Israel is that of King
Solomon. This sequence was to point towards Christ and the establishment of the Church as
the Spiritual Temple of God.
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Rule of the Kings Part III: Solomon and the Key of David
Rule of the Kings Part III: Solomon and the Key of David
The Charge to Solomon
As we have seen, God had selected Solomon to
be king, just as he selected David to replace
Saul. Each of the three rulers were taken for a
purpose and their lives were to illustrate the
Plan of God in the 6,000 years of the creation
from Adam and the closure of Eden leading up
to the millennial rest of Jesus Christ.
1Kings 2:1-46 Now the days of David drew nigh that
he should die; and he charged Solomon his son,
saying, 2 I go the way of all the earth: be thou strong
therefore, and shew thyself a man; 3 And keep the
charge of the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, to
keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his
judgments, and his testimonies, as it is written in the
law of Moses, that thou mayest prosper in all that
thou doest, and whithersoever thou turnest thyself: 4
That the LORD may continue his word which he
spake concerning me, saying, If thy children take
heed to their way, to walk before me in truth with all
their heart and with all their soul, there shall not fail
thee (said he) a man on the throne of Israel. 5
Moreover thou knowest also what Joab the son of
Zeruiah did to me, and what he did to the two
captains of the hosts of Israel, unto Abner the son of
Ner, and unto Amasa the son of Jether, whom he
slew, and shed the blood of war in peace, and put the
blood of war upon his girdle that was about his loins,
and in his shoes that were on his feet. 6 Do therefore
according to thy wisdom, and let not his hoar head go
down to the grave in peace. 7 But shew kindness unto
the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite, and let them be of
those that eat at thy table: for so they came to me
when I fled because of Absalom thy brother. 8 And,
behold, thou hast with thee Shimei the son of Gera, a
Benjamite of Bahurim, which cursed me with a
grievous curse in the day when I went to Mahanaim:
but he came down to meet me at Jordan, and I sware
to him by the LORD, saying, I will not put thee to
death with the sword. 9 Now therefore hold him not
guiltless: for thou art a wise man, and knowest what
thou oughtest to do unto him; but his hoar head bring
thou down to the grave with blood. 10 So David slept
with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David.
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And the days that David reigned over Israel were
forty years: seven years reigned he in Hebron, and
thirty and three years reigned he in Jerusalem.
David had seen the problems caused by those
who had affected him, such as Joab, and Shimei
the Benjamite, and he entrusted Solomon with
their punishment in blood. Solomon was
entrusted with the kingship and had specific
duties. From that time also he was given
wisdom in discernment and the first instance we
saw was with the sentence on Adonijah.
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Then sat Solomon upon the throne of David his
father; and his kingdom was established greatly. 13
And Adonijah the son of Haggith came to Bathsheba
the mother of Solomon. And she said, Comest thou
peaceably? And he said, Peaceably. 14 He said
moreover, I have somewhat to say unto thee. And she
said, Say on. 15 And he said, Thou knowest that the
kingdom was mine, and that all Israel set their faces
on me, that I should reign: howbeit the kingdom is
turned about, and is become my brother's: for it was
his from the LORD. 16 And now I ask one petition of
thee, deny me not. And she said unto him, Say on. 17
And he said, Speak, I pray thee, unto Solomon the
king, (for he will not say thee nay,) that he give me
Abishag the Shunammite to wife. 18 And Bathsheba
said, Well; I will speak for thee unto the king. 19
Bathsheba therefore went unto king Solomon, to
speak unto him for Adonijah. And the king rose up to
meet her, and bowed himself unto her, and sat down
on his throne, and caused a seat to be set for the
king's mother; and she sat on his right hand. 20 Then
she said, I desire one small petition of thee; I pray
thee, say me not nay. And the king said unto her, Ask
on, my mother: for I will not say thee nay. 21 And she
said, Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to
Adonijah thy brother to wife. 22 And king Solomon
answered and said unto his mother, And why dost
thou ask Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? ask
for him the kingdom also; for he is mine elder
brother; even for him, and for Abiathar the priest, and
for Joab the son of Zeruiah. 23 Then king Solomon
sware by the LORD, saying, God do so to me, and
more also, if Adonijah have not spoken this word
against his own life. 24 Now therefore, as the LORD
liveth, which hath established me, and set me on the
throne of David my father, and who hath made me an
house, as he promised, Adonijah shall be put to death
this day. 25 And king Solomon sent by the hand of
Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he fell upon him
that he died.
Solomon had spared the lives of these men
conditionally upon their proper conduct and
loyalty. Adonijah’s request shows his intent on
the throne after he had consolidated the
marriage of Abishag the Shunamite, as she was
David’s last companion and held in high
esteem. It would have provided the link that
Adonijah wanted to attempt to seize the throne
again.
Solomon spared the life of Abiathar, the priest,
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because he bore the Ark of the Covenant before
David. However, he banished him to Anathoth.
This was the home of the prophets also.
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And unto Abiathar the priest said the king, Get thee
to Anathoth, unto thine own fields; for thou art
worthy of death: but I will not at this time put thee to
death, because thou barest the ark of the Lord GOD
before David my father, and because thou hast been
afflicted in all wherein my father was afflicted. 27 So
Solomon thrust out Abiathar from being priest unto
the LORD; that he might fulfil the word of the
LORD, which he spake concerning the house of Eli
in Shiloh. 28 Then tidings came to Joab: for Joab had
turned after Adonijah, though he turned not after
Absalom. And Joab fled unto the tabernacle of the
LORD, and caught hold on the horns of the altar. 29
And it was told king Solomon that Joab was fled unto
the tabernacle of the LORD; and, behold, he is by the
altar. Then Solomon sent Benaiah the son of
Jehoiada, saying, Go, fall upon him. 30 And Benaiah
came to the tabernacle of the LORD, and said unto
him, Thus saith the king, Come forth. And he said,
Nay; but I will die here. And Benaiah brought the
king word again, saying, Thus said Joab, and thus he
answered me. 31 And the king said unto him, Do as he
hath said, and fall upon him, and bury him; that thou
mayest take away the innocent blood, which Joab
shed, from me, and from the house of my father. 32
And the LORD shall return his blood upon his own
head, who fell upon two men more righteous and
better than he, and slew them with the sword, my
father David not knowing thereof, to wit, Abner the
son of Ner, captain of the host of Israel, and Amasa
the son of Jether, captain of the host of Judah. 33
Their blood shall therefore return upon the head of
Joab, and upon the head of his seed for ever: but
upon David, and upon his seed, and upon his house,
and upon his throne, shall there be peace for ever
from the LORD. 34 So Benaiah the son of Jehoiada
went up, and fell upon him, and slew him: and he was
buried in his own house in the wilderness. 35 And the
king put Benaiah the son of Jehoiada in his room
over the host: and Zadok the priest did the king put in
the room of Abiathar. 36 And the king sent and called
for Shimei, and said unto him, Build thee an house in
Jerusalem, and dwell there, and go not forth thence
any whither. 37 For it shall be, that on the day thou
goest out, and passest over the brook Kidron, thou
shalt know for certain that thou shalt surely die: thy
blood shall be upon thine own head. 38 And Shimei
said unto the king, The saying is good: as my lord the
king hath said, so will thy servant do. And Shimei
dwelt in Jerusalem many days. 39 And it came to pass
at the end of three years, that two of the servants of
Shimei ran away unto Achish son of Maachah king of
Gath. And they told Shimei, saying, Behold, thy
servants be in Gath. 40 And Shimei arose, and saddled
his ass, and went to Gath to Achish to seek his
servants: and Shimei went, and brought his servants
from Gath. 41 And it was told Solomon that Shimei
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had gone from Jerusalem to Gath, and was come
again. 42 And the king sent and called for Shimei, and
said unto him, Did I not make thee to swear by the
LORD, and protested unto thee, saying, Know for a
certain, on the day thou goest out, and walkest abroad
any whither, that thou shalt surely die? and thou
saidst unto me, The word that I have heard is good. 43
Why then hast thou not kept the oath of the LORD,
and the commandment that I have charged thee with?
44
The king said moreover to Shimei, Thou knowest
all the wickedness which thine heart is privy to, that
thou didst to David my father: therefore the LORD
shall return thy wickedness upon thine own head; 45
And king Solomon shall be blessed, and the throne of
David shall be established before the LORD for ever.
46
So the king commanded Benaiah the son of
Jehoiada; which went out, and fell upon him, that he
died. And the kingdom was established in the hand of
Solomon. (KJV)
Shimei, the Benjamite, could not be trusted as
he had raised a rebellion and was capable of
doing it again. The charge was given to him so
that when he broke it, as he disregarded the
charges of the king previously, he could be
killed without blame.
Solomon then began the task of establishing
trading alliances by marriage with the
neighbouring rulers. This practice was to
ultimately bring him undone and divide the
kingdom under his son. God did not do that in
his reign because the Plan of God was to be
revealed in it, and it was not to be marred in any
way that would reflect on the rule of Christ and
the Church, which Solomon’s reign was to
symbolise. This entire sequence was to
constitute the plan of salvation, known as the
Key of David, and must remain complete until
the restoration of the Last Days.
Solomon married the daughter of Pharaoh
before the Temple was constructed. This was no
doubt done to secure peace with Egypt until he
had finished the Temples.
The Pharaoh concerned was of the 21st Tanite
Dynasty that ruled Egypt from ca. 1070-945
BCE. This Pharaoh would have been Psusennes
II Titkheprure (ca. 976-962), and he was
succeeded by Siamun Nutekhepere (ca. 962945). Solomon reigned for forty years to ca. 933
BCE. Thus, his relatives in Egypt were secure
over his reign and peace was fairly assured. The
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Tanite Dynasty was displaced by the 22nd
Dynasty (945-730 BCE), which was founded by
Sheshonq I. He was descended from former
Libyan mercenaries, the Meshwesh. He
supported Jeroboam against Rehoboam king of
Judah, perhaps because of Rehoboam’s father
Solomon’s alliance and marriage to the Tanite
princess. He campaigned in Palestine ca. 930
and laid tribute on Judah.
In this text in 1Kings 3 we see the wisdom given
to Solomon as he had asked, and it was
demonstrated in his judgments.
1Kings 3:1-28 And Solomon made affinity with
Pharaoh king of Egypt, and took Pharaoh's daughter,
and brought her into the city of David, until he had
made an end of building his own house, and the
house of the LORD, and the wall of Jerusalem round
about. 2 Only the people sacrificed in high places,
because there was no house built unto the name of the
LORD, until those days. 3 And Solomon loved the
LORD, walking in the statutes of David his father:
only he sacrificed and burnt incense in high places. 4
And the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there; for
that was the great high place: a thousand burnt
offerings did Solomon offer upon that altar. 5 In
Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream
by night: and God said, Ask what I shall give thee. 6
And Solomon said, Thou hast shewed unto thy
servant David my father great mercy, according as he
walked before thee in truth, and in righteousness, and
in uprightness of heart with thee; and thou hast kept
for him this great kindness, that thou hast given him a
son to sit on his throne, as it is this day. 7 And now, O
LORD my God, thou hast made thy servant king
instead of David my father: and I am but a little child:
I know not how to go out or come in. 8 And thy
servant is in the midst of thy people which thou hast
chosen, a great people, that cannot be numbered nor
counted for multitude. 9 Give therefore thy servant an
understanding heart to judge thy people, that I may
discern between good and bad: for who is able to
judge this thy so great a people? 10 And the speech
pleased the Lord, that Solomon had asked this thing.
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And God said unto him, Because thou hast asked
this thing, and hast not asked for thyself long life;
neither hast asked riches for thyself, nor hast asked
the life of thine enemies; but hast asked for thyself
understanding to discern judgment; 12 Behold, I have
done according to thy words: lo, I have given thee a
wise and an understanding heart; so that there was
none like thee before thee, neither after thee shall any
arise like unto thee. 13 And I have also given thee that
which thou hast not asked, both riches, and honour:
so that there shall not be any among the kings like
unto thee all thy days. 14 And if thou wilt walk in my
ways, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as
thy father David did walk, then I will lengthen thy
days. 15 And Solomon awoke; and, behold, it was a
dream. And he came to Jerusalem, and stood before
the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and offered up
burnt offerings, and offered peace offerings, and
made a feast to all his servants. 16 Then came there
two women, that were harlots, unto the king, and
stood before him. 17 And the one woman said, O my
lord, I and this woman dwell in one house; and I was
delivered of a child with her in the house. 18 And it
came to pass the third day after that I was delivered,
that this woman was delivered also: and we were
together; there was no stranger with us in the house,
save we two in the house. 19 And this woman's child
died in the night; because she overlaid it. 20 And she
arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me,
while thine handmaid slept, and laid it in her bosom,
and laid her dead child in my bosom. 21 And when I
rose in the morning to give my child suck, behold, it
was dead: but when I had considered it in the
morning, behold, it was not my son, which I did bear.
22
And the other woman said, Nay; but the living is
my son, and the dead is thy son. And this said, No;
but the dead is thy son, and the living is my son. Thus
they spake before the king. 23 Then said the king, The
one saith, This is my son that liveth, and thy son is
the dead: and the other saith, Nay; but thy son is the
dead, and my son is the living. 24 And the king said,
Bring me a sword. And they brought a sword before
the king. 25 And the king said, Divide the living child
in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other.
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Then spake the woman whose the living child was
unto the king, for her bowels yearned upon her son,
and she said, O my lord, give her the living child, and
in no wise slay it. But the other said, Let it be neither
mine nor thine, but divide it. 27 Then the king
answered and said, Give her the living child, and in
no wise slay it: she is the mother thereof. 28 And all
Israel heard of the judgment which the king had
judged; and they feared the king: for they saw that the
wisdom of God was in him, to do judgment. (KJV)
It was the capacity to see to the heart of the
matter, and see the heart of the person under
judgment that made Solomon great. Adonijah’s
intent was clear, as was the motivation behind
the harlot who would see the child dead. No true
mother would do that even one who genuinely
thought the child was her own rather than the
other woman’s child. The motivation behind a
woman who would see a child cut in half just to
ensure another woman was not happy is a
twisted mindset, and Solomon was able to get at
the heart of the matter by a simple test and
answer. Many in Israel were disconcerted at this
news, as they knew that by his judgment in great
matters he would be able to see through any ruse
or deceit of theirs.
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The blessing of Solomon is also recorded in
Chronicles.
2Chronicles 1:1-17 And Solomon the son of David
was strengthened in his kingdom, and the LORD his
God [was] with him, and magnified him exceedingly.
2
Then Solomon spake unto all Israel, to the captains
of thousands and of hundreds, and to the judges, and
to every governor in all Israel, the chief of the
fathers.
At the outset, Solomon set out to worship God
and be loyal and diligent.
2Chronicles 1:3-6 So Solomon, and all the
congregation with him, went to the high place that
[was] at Gibeon; for there was the tabernacle of the
congregation of God, which Moses the servant of the
LORD had made in the wilderness. 4 But the ark of
God had David brought up from Kirjathjearim to the
place which David had prepared for it: for he had
pitched a tent for it at Jerusalem. 5 Moreover the
brasen altar, that Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of
Hur, had made, he put before the tabernacle of the
LORD: and Solomon and the congregation sought
unto it. 6 And Solomon went up thither to the brasen
altar before the LORD, which [was] at the tabernacle
of the congregation, and offered a thousand burnt
offerings upon it. (KJV)
As a result of his loyalty and obedience
Solomon was asked by the Elohim (that we
know as Jesus Christ) what he wanted.
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In that night did God appear unto Solomon, and
said unto him, Ask what I shall give thee.
Solomon here asked for wisdom and as a result
received far more.
Chronicles 1:8-17 And Solomon said unto God, Thou
hast shewed great mercy unto David my father, and
hast made me to reign in his stead. 9 Now, O LORD
God, let thy promise unto David my father be
established: for thou hast made me king over a
people like the dust of the earth in multitude. 10 Give
me now wisdom and knowledge, that I may go out
and come in before this people: for who can judge
this thy people, that is so great? 11 And God said to
Solomon, Because this was in thine heart, and thou
hast not asked riches, wealth, or honour, nor the life
of thine enemies, neither yet hast asked long life; but
hast asked wisdom and knowledge for thyself, that
thou mayest judge my people, over whom I have
made thee king: 12 Wisdom and knowledge is granted
unto thee; and I will give thee riches, and wealth, and
honour, such as none of the kings have had that have
been before thee, neither shall there any after thee
have the like. 13 Then Solomon came from his
journey to the high place that was at Gibeon to
Jerusalem, from before the tabernacle of the
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congregation, and reigned over Israel. 14 And
Solomon gathered chariots and horsemen: and he had
a thousand and four hundred chariots, and twelve
thousand horsemen, which he placed in the chariot
cities, and with the king at Jerusalem. 15 And the king
made silver and gold at Jerusalem as plenteous as
stones, and cedar trees made he as the sycomore trees
that are in the vale for abundance. 16 And Solomon
had horses brought out of Egypt, and linen yarn: the
king's merchants received the linen yarn at a price. 17
And they fetched up, and brought forth out of Egypt a
chariot for six hundred shekels of silver, and an horse
for an hundred and fifty: and so brought they out
horses for all the kings of the Hittites, and for the
kings of Syria, by their means. (KJV)
This text shows that the kings of the Hittites and
the kings of Syria were allies with Solomon, and
were provided with chariots and horses for their
armies to the north of Israel, while Solomon’s
alliances and commerce secured the border with
Egypt under the 21st (Tanite) Dynasty, as it
controlled the Nile Delta and the north of Egypt.
The Syrians kept the lands to the Euphrates and
ensured peace to the North East. At that time,
the Hittite alliance of Hatti and Kalti (Celts)
stretched from the north of what is now
Lebanon, to the north of Turkey, to the borders
of the lands of Meshech and Tubal in the north
and eastwards towards the Caspian. They
extended to the remains of the former kingdom
of Wilusia and the city of Troy, which was
destroyed in the last years of Eli’s rule as judge
in Israel. They were to become mingled with
Israel in alliance from then until after Israel’s
captivity in 722 BCE. The Assyrians placed the
Ten Tribes to the north between them and the
Celts as a buffer to protect themselves. The
Israelites in turn mingled and formed part of the
horde with the Parthian Celts into Scythia
because of these earlier alliances. They
subsequently entered Europe in the second
century CE.
Today they are a group of people with differing
languages spread over North-West Europe,
distinguished only by their YDNA Haplogroups
but totally interbred by matrilineal mtDNA. The
Hittite Celts and the Lost Ten Tribes are now
both the children of Abraham (see the papers
The Genetic Origin of the Nations (No. 265) and
War of Hamon-Gog (No. 294)).
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1Kings 4:1-34 So king Solomon was king over all
Israel. 2 And these were the princes which he had;
Azariah the son of Zadok the priest, 3 Elihoreph and
Ahiah, the sons of Shisha, scribes; Jehoshaphat the
son of Ahilud, the recorder. 4 And Benaiah the son of
Jehoiada was over the host: and Zadok and Abiathar
were the priests: 5 And Azariah the son of Nathan was
over the officers: and Zabud the son of Nathan was
principal officer, and the king's friend: 6 And Ahishar
was over the household: and Adoniram the son of
Abda was over the tribute. 7 And Solomon had twelve
officers over all Israel, which provided victuals for
the king and his household: each man his month in a
year made provision.
Thus, the twelve tribes were detailed to supply
for the provisions of the household in Jerusalem
on the basis of one month per tribe. In like
manner, the priesthood and Levites were
divided among the tribes on the basis of two
divisions per tribe, and these received the tithe
also from those tribes and paid the tithe of the
tithe to the Temple at Jerusalem, which was
under Zadok.
Appendices 1 and 2 deal with the Egyptian
Dynasties related in the Bible and with the timeframes of the Key of David. Appendices 3 and 4
deal with the significance of the Levitical
Priesthood established from and with the
Temple, and also with the Mighty Men of Israel,
of the thirty and the seven and the
administration.
These are the names of the twelve officers of the
tribal levies.
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And these are their names: The son of Hur, in
mount Ephraim: 9 The son of Dekar, in Makaz, and in
Shaalbim, and Bethshemesh, and Elonbethhanan: 10
The son of Hesed, in Aruboth; to him pertained
Sochoh, and all the land of Hepher: 11 The son of
Abinadab, in all the region of Dor; which had
Taphath the daughter of Solomon to wife: 12 Baana
the son of Ahilud; to him pertained Taanach and
Megiddo, and all Bethshean, which is by Zartanah
beneath Jezreel, from Bethshean to Abelmeholah,
even unto the place that is beyond Jokneam: 13 The
son of Geber, in Ramothgilead; to him pertained the
towns of Jair the son of Manasseh, which are in
Gilead; to him also pertained the region of Argob,
which is in Bashan, threescore great cities with walls
and brasen bars: 14 Ahinadab the son of Iddo had
Mahanaim: 15 Ahimaaz was in Naphtali; he also took
Basmath the daughter of Solomon to wife: 16 Baanah
the son of Hushai was in Asher and in Aloth: 17
Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar: 18 Shimei
the son of Elah, in Benjamin: 19 Geber the son of Uri
was in the country of Gilead, in the country of Sihon
king of the Amorites, and of Og king of Bashan; and
he was the only officer which was in the land. 20
Judah and Israel were many, as the sand which is by
the sea in multitude, eating and drinking, and making
merry. 21 And Solomon reigned over all kingdoms
from the river unto the land of the Philistines, and
unto the border of Egypt: they brought presents, and
served Solomon all the days of his life. 22 And
Solomon's provision for one day was thirty measures
of fine flour, and threescore measures of meal, 23 Ten
fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and an
hundred sheep, beside harts, and roebucks, and
fallowdeer, and fatted fowl. 24 For he had dominion
over all the region on this side the river, from
Tiphsah even to Azzah, over all the kings on this side
the river: and he had peace on all sides round about
him. 25 And Judah and Israel dwelt safely, every man
under his vine and under his fig tree, from Dan even
to Beersheba, all the days of Solomon. 26 And
Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his
chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen. 27 And those
officers provided victual for king Solomon, and for
all that came unto king Solomon's table, every man in
his month: they lacked nothing. 28 Barley also and
straw for the horses and dromedaries brought they
unto the place where the officers were, every man
according to his charge. 29 And God gave Solomon
wisdom and understanding exceeding much, and
largeness of heart, even as the sand that is on the sea
shore. 30 And Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom
of all the children of the east country, and all the
wisdom of Egypt. 31 For he was wiser than all men;
than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, and Chalcol,
and Darda, the sons of Mahol: and his fame was in all
nations round about. 32 And he spake three thousand
proverbs: and his songs were a thousand and five. 33
And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in
Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of
the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of
creeping things, and of fishes. 34 And there came of
all people to hear the wisdom of Solomon, from all
kings of the earth, which had heard of his wisdom.
(KJV)
Solomon thus wrote the Book of Proverbs and
the full number thereof was three thousand.
Solomon was a botanist and an expert in
animals, birds and fish. He became expert in the
structure and extent of the creation.
When he became King, Hiram of Tyre set about
establishing his relationship with Solomon as he
had with David. This was what David had
sought to do with the Ammonites, but they were
foolish enough to insult and provoke David.
Solomon did not do that to Hiram. Instead he
enlisted his aid in the provision of materials for
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the Temple. So too are the Gentiles enlisted in
the construction of the Spiritual Temple, which
is the Church of God.
1Kings 5:1-18 And Hiram king of Tyre sent his
servants unto Solomon; for he had heard that they
had anointed him king in the room of his father: for
Hiram was ever a lover of David. 2 And Solomon sent
to Hiram, saying, 3 Thou knowest how that David my
father could not build an house unto the name of the
LORD his God for the wars which were about him on
every side, until the LORD put them under the soles
of his feet. 4 But now the LORD my God hath given
me rest on every side, so that there is neither
adversary nor evil occurrent. 5 And, behold, I purpose
to build an house unto the name of the LORD my
God, as the LORD spake unto David my father,
saying, Thy son, whom I will set upon thy throne in
thy room, he shall build an house unto my name. 6
Now therefore command thou that they hew me cedar
trees out of Lebanon; and my servants shall be with
thy servants: and unto thee will I give hire for thy
servants according to all that thou shalt appoint: for
thou knowest that there is not among us any that can
skill to hew timber like unto the Sidonians. 7 And it
came to pass, when Hiram heard the words of
Solomon, that he rejoiced greatly, and said, Blessed
be the LORD this day, which hath given unto David a
wise son over this great people. 8 And Hiram sent to
Solomon, saying, I have considered the things which
thou sentest to me for: and I will do all thy desire
concerning timber of cedar, and concerning timber of
fir. 9 My servants shall bring them down from
Lebanon unto the sea: and I will convey them by sea
in floats unto the place that thou shalt appoint me,
and will cause them to be discharged there, and thou
shalt receive them: and thou shalt accomplish my
desire, in giving food for my household. 10 So Hiram
gave Solomon cedar trees and fir trees according to
all his desire. 11 And Solomon gave Hiram twenty
thousand measures of wheat for food to his
household, and twenty measures of pure oil: thus
gave Solomon to Hiram year by year. 12 And the
LORD gave Solomon wisdom, as he promised him:
and there was peace between Hiram and Solomon;
and they two made a league together. 13 And king
Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the levy
was thirty thousand men. 14 And he sent them to
Lebanon, ten thousand a month by courses: a month
they were in Lebanon, and two months at home: and
Adoniram was over the levy. 15 And Solomon had
threescore and ten thousand that bare burdens, and
fourscore thousand hewers in the mountains; 16
Beside the chief of Solomon's officers which were
over the work, three thousand and three hundred,
which ruled over the people that wrought in the work.
17
And the king commanded, and they brought great
stones, costly stones, and hewed stones, to lay the
foundation of the house. 18 And Solomon's builders
and Hiram's builders did hew them, and the
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stonesquarers: so they prepared timber and stones to
build the house. (KJV)
The just methods of dealing with Hiram were
different from the sorts of ways that the more
powerful kings acted in those days towards less
powerful neighbours. The usual way was to
oppress them, but Solomon treated his father’s
friend with honour and just terms in all he did,
and they both prospered. It is on equal terms and
with honour that the Gentiles of all nations enter
the Kingdom of God, and are added to the
Temple of God. In the same way the Hittites of
the north were fused with Israel in later years
and spread throughout Europe.
(End tape 282C1)
The Key of David
There is a specific text regarding the matter of
the Key of David. It is mentioned as applying to
the Church of the Philadelphians. The promise
is made by Christ that he has the Key of David
and that he will give it to the Church of the
Philadelphians.
Revelation 3:7-8 These things saith the Holy One the
True One, the One having the key of David, the
[One] opening and no one shuts, and shuts and no
one opens; I know your works. Behold, I have given
a door being opened before you and no one is able to
shut it, for you have a little power and have kept my
word, and have not denied my name. (KJV)
Now it is one thing to claim the name of the
Church of the Philadelphians and say you have
the Key of David, and quite another thing to
behave as a Philadelphian and exercise the Key
and explain its power and meaning. This Church
actually carries the name of God and is given
the open door through the power of God. No
one can stop that Church from its work. It
proclaims the nature of the Faith and the power
of Eloah as the One True God.
In Revelation 3:7, we see that God reveals
Himself as He that is Holy, He that is true, and
He that has the Key of David. Thus, it is the
worship of this entity that provides the basis of
the Key of David. In Revelation 1:4, we see that
it is from God, who was and is and is to come,
and from the seven spirits of God which are
before His throne, that the revelation is given.
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From chapter 4 the Revelation then proceeds to
declare the holiness of God with some
seventeen heavenly utterances from Revelation
4:8,11; 5:9-10,12-14; 7:10,12; 11:15,17-18;
12:10-12; 14:13; 15:3-4; 19:1-8.
God’s holiness is proclaimed prior to judgment
in Revelation 4:8, and as we see in Psalms 93,
97, 99 and Isaiah 6:3.
So what is the Key of David? Why is it
important to the work of the Church of the Last
Days?
There is obviously some aspect of the life of
David that contains a key to the function of the
Plan of God as it relates to the Church. That key
opens the Mysteries of God to the Church in the
Last Days, and the Church of the Philadelphians
is given that open door to explain it, and to do
the works of God through Christ and the Holy
Spirit in the Last Days.
David was the key figure in the story of the Rule
of the Kings. He was born in the reign of Saul
and grew up to become the Lord’s Anointed.
When he was thirty he assumed the kingship
and reigned forty years. He handed over the
kingship to Solomon and was thus alive in all
three kingships.
The major thing he did in his life was to
consolidate Israel in peace, and assemble a
mighty collection of materials for the
construction of the Temple. He planned its
construction and wrote the Psalms for its
worship. The major aspect of the rule of David
was the Temple. Even though he did not build
the Temple himself, it is nevertheless his role in
that project that forms the key to understanding
the Plan of God. In understanding David’s role,
and the significance of the kings in that process,
we understand the Plan of God to the reign of
Jesus Christ and on under the Churches of God.
The understanding of the plan and the sequence
is given to the people entrusted with it by the
One True God, Eloah, in time as He determines
to reveal the Mysteries of God to the world.
Thus the One True God, Eloah, is the central
place of worship in the Church of the
Philadelphians. They cannot therefore be
Ditheist, or Binitarian, much less Trinitarian.
God gives His understanding of the Key of
David to his servants the prophets, and we see
from the prophets what exactly is entailed in this
Key.
The prophet Isaiah mentions the Key of David
specifically.
Isaiah 22:17-25 Behold, the LORD will carry thee
away with a mighty captivity, and will surely cover
thee. 18He will surely violently turn and toss thee like
a ball into a large country: there shalt thou die, and
there the chariots of thy glory shall be the shame of
thy lord's house. 19 And I will drive thee from thy
station, and from thy state shall he pull thee down. 20
And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will call
my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah: 21 And I will
clothe him with thy robe, and strengthen him with thy
girdle, and I will commit thy government into his
hand: and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of
Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah. 22 And the key
of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulder; so
he shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut,
and none shall open. 23 And I will fasten him as a nail
in a sure place; and he shall be for a glorious throne
to his father's house. 24 And they shall hang upon him
all the glory of his father's house, the offspring and
the issue, all vessels of small quantity, from the
vessels of cups, even to all the vessels of flagons. 25
In that day, saith the LORD of hosts, shall the nail
that is fastened in the sure place be removed, and be
cut down, and fall; and the burden that was upon it
shall be cut off: for the LORD hath spoken it. (KJV)
The Key of David is thus an aspect of prophecy
and of understanding the process of the
Government of God.
The person here is referred to in 2Kings 18:1826. Thus the Key of David was entrusted to
Eliakim, son of Hilkiah, who was head of the
household in Hezekiah’s reign when the
Assyrians came up against Jerusalem. When
they had called to Hezekiah, Eliakim came out
with Shebna the scribe and Joah (the son of
Asaph) the recorder as heralds. Eliakim rent his
clothes when he told Hezekiah of the words of
Rab-shakeh the messenger of the king of
Assyria, and Hezekiah rent his clothes also and
sent him Isaiah, son of Amoz, the prophet.
Isaiah uttered the oracle of the Valley of the
Vision in chapter 22. In this chapter he refers to
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Jerusalem and the “Valley of the Vision”, which
was the area where the most solemn visions had
been seen firstly with Abraham (Gen. 22:2,14;
cf. the name Yahovah Yireh; and also that of
David in 1Chr. 21:16,28; and the many visions
of Isaiah 1:1; 6:1-4; The Septuagint reads Zion).
Shebna was stated to be the treasurer and he was
to be sent into captivity. He may well have been
an alien or heathenised Jew. He was apostate
and God said that He would drive him from his
station and remove him (Isa. 22:17-19).
Thus the overthrow of apostasy was involved in
the establishment of Eliakim in the place of the
apostate Shebna.
Shebna was the one who thought he was the nail
in the house of the Lord with the Key of David.
However, he was overthrown and removed and
the true servant of God established. The
prophecy deals with the system that will be
established, and the true oracles of God (which
will be set up as the Key of David) as were set
up originally. Thus the true oracles of God are
set in place at the last phase before the
Witnesses take their stations (see the paper The
Witnesses (No. 135)). The system of the Church
that was before it is replaced, and the Gospel is
preached once and for all. The system of the
Plan of Salvation and the Mysteries of God are
delineated for the whole world as a witness, and
then the end of this age shall come.
This text was to deal with the captivity and then
the restoration of the Temple at Jerusalem under
a prophet of sound knowledge, who was able to
restore the Temple system and to deal with the
Mysteries.
From this text we see that there were to be two
dispersions and two restorations of the Temple
system. Thus the Key of David was in
understanding when those dispersions and
restorations occurred and how they would be
carried out. It is also clear that the first
Restoration was to be by Judah under an
appointed priest. Hezekiah was responsible for
one of the restorations but so was Josiah, and
then after the dispersion there was Nehemiah
and Ezra, as we see here with Hezekiah and
Eliakim. The restorations down to Christ are
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examined in the paper The Seven Great
Passovers of the Bible (No.107).
There were thus two Temples: one from
Solomon to the Babylonian Captivity, and the
Second Temple from the construction in the
reign of Darius II through Ezra and Nehemiah to
the Destruction in 70 CE (see the paper The
Sign of Jonah and the History of the
Reconstruction of the Temple (No. 13)).
The Last Restoration is to be for the Third and
final Temple. That phase is to be by the Church
in the work of the Last Days. The Philadelphian
system explains the process prior to Messiah’s
return and then carries it out under the Messiah
at His return for the establishment of the
Kingdom of God on Earth. There will be two
phases of this restoration for both the Spiritual
Temple and then the physical restoration of the
Physical Temple at Jerusalem, and the
establishment of its religious system for the rule
of the planet as prophesied by Ezekiel.
We will see how the Key of David is the
opening of the Mysteries of God as they concern
the Temple, and its ultimate construction as a
spiritual edifice that is the Church of God in
which God dwells in the power of the Holy
Spirit.
We will now look at the significance of the
dates and sequence of the revelation of God.
The Temple is Commenced
We see that in the 480th year after the children
of Israel came out of Egypt the Temple was
commenced. Israel had been in its land for 440
years (or eleven cycles of repentance) and still
the Temple had not been started. It was
commenced in the year 968/7 BCE in the fourth
year of the reign of King Solomon.
Israel had been 40 years in the wilderness and
then 436 years under the Judges (see the paper
Samson and the Judges (No. 73)), and then
under Saul and David; and now four years under
Solomon.
Relevance to the Exodus
The Exodus occurred in the year 1448/7 BCE. If
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we take the earliest chronology offered that
would make the Pharaoh of the Exodus
Amenhotep II (1450-1412 BCE). If we take the
later chronology of say Oxford then the Pharaoh
is Thumoses III. The Karnak Stele erected by
Amenhotep II’s son Thutmose IV speaks of the
campaign in year 2 of his father’s reign (1448
BCE would be in that year of his reign based on
the earlier chronology). There he is recorded as
having a victory over the Asiatics, but the record
of the booty is pitiful (quiver of arrows, etc.)
and it is obviously a disaster for them. It seems
he merely brought back a few strays.
The Karnak Stele says he captured 18 people
and 16 horses. In the ninth Egyptian month of
year 2 he captured 2 horses, 1 chariot, a coat of
mail, 2 bows and a quiver of arrows and a
corselet and an unknown object less important.
Then, in the following month, he faced a
rebellion on returning to central Egypt among a
garrison town of infantry at the behest of its
occupants. He quotes this as a victory also, but
it is Thutmoses IV that does so after his father’s
death. This view would accord with the Exodus
account. These accounts are not records of
victories.
After quelling the rebellion he tried to save face.
It appears as though he then attacked Gaza after
the Exodus disaster and brought back 550 men,
and 240 of their wives, and also some 612
kilograms of gold and 45 tonnes of copper.
This is based on the earlier chronology.
However, this view is now challenged. It makes
no difference whatsoever as to which Pharaoh
was at the Exodus as both their reigns could
easily have accommodated the Exodus from
what is known of them.
The name Moses is derived from the family of
the 18th Dynasty of Egypt. It appears, on the
earlier chronology, that Amenhotep II succeeded
his father in the 39th year of Moses’ sojourn in
Midian. Moses was 79 years of age.
Amenhotep’s father was Thutmoses III
Mekhepere.
Moses’ foster mother was the daughter of
Ahmose I Nebpehtyre (ca. 1570-1546) founder
of the 18th Dynasty, and thus Moses was named
for that fact. Moses was born in 1528 BCE.
Depending on the chronology used, it was either
in the reign of Amenhotep I Djesekare (early
dates ca. 1546-1527) who became Moses’ foster
uncle, or in the reign of Amosis I, which seems
to be the correct chronology. He would have
thus died when Moses was almost two years
old. Thutmose I Akheperkare succeeded him
and he was succeeded by Thutmose II
Akheperence. He was succeeded by Queen
Hatshepsut Maakare (see Appendix 1 for
analysis). She reigned as co-regent with her
young nephew Thutmose III on the death of
Thutmose II in 1498. Older documentation from
the 1960-1970s held that Thutmose III reigned
conjointly with Thutmose II from 1504 to 1498
BCE. That was based on an unsustainable reign
of 35 years for Thutmosis IV (ibid.). The
modern chronology states Thutmose III reigned
from 1479-1425.
It is thus a complete fiction to assert that Moses
knew the Pharaoh of the Exodus at all other than
by name, until he appeared before him. These
facts and sequence can be deduced from the
detail given here regarding the Temple, coupling
them with the finds of modern archaeology.
The Temple was begun in the Second month of
Zif or Iyar of the 480th year from the Exodus.
The Second month was required for the
consecration of the Temple sequence in the First
month as required by Law.
The Exodus occurred in the 26th year of the 51st
Jubilee. This was the fifth year of the fourth
cycle of the Jubilee, the year of Grace when the
Law was given at Sinai.
The Temple was commenced in the Sixth year
of the first cycle of the 61st Jubilee from the
closure of Eden in the Jubilee year of 3974
BCE. The period was exactly 3006 years from
Adam’s expulsion and immediately following
the Jubilee at the halfway mark in the rule of
Satan. This was to mark the turn of the creation
in the Plan of God. In a way, this was a divine
parody of the worship of the Sun God where
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the worship of the Mystery Cults of Satan.
Thus the 480 years marked the commencement.
It took twenty years to complete the work of the
Temple and the King’s house, and the work was
completed in the 500th year from the Exodus. It
took seven years and seven months to complete
the Temple building itself but twenty years
overall. Thus it was exactly ten Jubilees from
the removal of Israel as God’s chosen nation
from Egypt to the completion of the first
physical Temple, and the establishing of Israel
as the focal point of worship at Jerusalem.
It was the same time-frame for the restoration
under Ezra and Nehemiah to the declaration of
the Jubilee under Christ, and the establishment
of the Church from Jerusalem.
The Seventy Weeks of Years of Daniel 9:25ff.
went from the construction of the Temple to the
destruction and dispersal at the end of the 490
years, and the Jubilee saw the 497 years of the
cycle (see the paper The Sign of Jonah and the
History of the Reconstruction of the Temple
(No. 13)).
The 1263.5 days of the Witnesses are added as a
section of this period at the end. These are the
two golden lampstands that stand before the god
of this Earth.
From Ezra to Christ and on to the Millennium is
49 Jubilees, ending in 2027.
Christ’s ministry, as the son of David, began in
28 CE and the Forty Jubilees given to the world
for repentance ends in the 120th Jubilee in 2027.
Prior to this period, the Witnesses will deal with
the Earth from Jerusalem at the Temple site.
They will preach 1260 days and lie dead for
three and a half days, after which they will be
resurrected. That is the last marker before the
Messiah returns in all glory.
2028 begins the Fiftieth or Golden Jubilee of
Jubilees from the Restoration of the Temple as
the second physical Temple at Jerusalem.
Thus the Golden Jubilee is the First Jubilee of
the millennial system. That period is used to re-
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establish the physical Temple and the Law of
God from Jerusalem. The Earth will almost be
destroyed by 2027. The Jubilee from 2028 to
2077 will see the Earth restored to all its glory,
with the administration of the camp of the saints
at Jerusalem.
The return from Babylon under Ezra and
Nehemiah for the Reading of the Law, and the
restoration at Jerusalem for the Second Temple,
marked the commencement to Christ in the
same way the Exodus marked the
commencement under Moses to the completion
of the First Temple at Jerusalem. That period
was to see the destruction of the physical
Temple and its dispersion.
It will be exactly fifty Jubilees from Nehemiah
and Ezra’s Restoration to the establishment of
the millennial system under Christ and the
construction of the millennial Temple. There are
forty-nine Jubilees to 2027. The Fiftieth Jubilee
is 2028 to 2077. In that Jubilee the construction
of the Houses of worship and administration
will take place in Jerusalem. The Millennial
Temple, or House of Worship of the One True
God under the rule of Messiah and the elohim
who are the elect, will be finished in that
Jubilee.
The subjugation and the sanctification of the
nations take place over the last 21 years of the
120th Jubilee, that is, from 2006 to Atonement
of 2027 (see the paper Sanctification of the
Nations (No. 77)).
The restoration of the system takes place from
that time. Christ will return prior to that time to
save the elect. If he did not there would be no
flesh saved alive (see also the paper The Last
Thirty Years: the Final Struggle (No. 219) and
Forty Years for Repentance (No. 290)).
The First Temple
David passed the rule to Solomon in the First
year of the 61st Jubilee. The preparation began
so that the Temple could be built for the
Reading of the Law in that Jubilee. It was to
take twenty years to complete the House of God
and the King’s house and the other houses (see
below). The completion of it all was done by the
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25th year of the 61st Jubilee. The Temple was
commenced in the Fourth year of Solomon’s
reign, the year 968 BCE.
The entire construction and outfitting of the
House of God and the associated buildings was
completed in the Seventh month called Ethanim,
or Tishri, and the Feast was held for 14 days.
As we see below, the actual construction of the
building itself took seven years and seven
months and was completed in the Eighth month
of the Eleventh year of Solomon’s reign. The
completion was thus not in time for the Feast of
Tabernacles in that year. Thus there is another
significance to this period. The Temple was
commenced after the Passover, in the Second
month of the Fourth year of Solomon
and
completed in the Eighth month of Bul, or
Heshavan (October/November in the 487th year
from the Exodus, being the year 961 BCE).
These time sequences also form a part of the
Key of David. The time-frames mentioned
separately are also of significance to the period
of the Last Days from the return of the Messiah
and the establishment of the Spiritual Temple,
and the final completion of the physical
structure of the Temple in Jerusalem.
By the 28th year of the Jubilee the Law was read
in the House of God in Jerusalem. The entire
period of construction covered 21 years of the
Sanctification for the Temple. By the Sabbath
year it was ready. The 29th year commenced
another 21 years of the period leading up to the
Jubilee, and thus the nation was sanctified over
that period also. It was then to be three thousand
years until the establishment of the millennial
reign of Jesus Christ at the 120th Jubilee of the
creation from the closure of Eden, which is due
in 2027 CE.
The next 60 Jubilees were to mark the
construction of the physical system and its
passing into the spiritual system of the Church
and the government of God. It is clear that God
works to the Jubilee system and uses periods of
Jubilees in blocks of 10, 20 and 40.
From the OT texts it is clear that a Messiah had
to arise in the Jubilee of 27 CE and his ministry
had to commence in 28 CE. He had to die to
save sinners. It is equally clear that he had to
make Atonement and he had to return as the
King Messiah. That time-frame had to cover the
six thousand years of the creation of God and
end with the 120th Jubilee in 2027.
From that time the period of Messianic Rule
would commence from 2028 to 3027, being the
Sabbath rest of the Messiah. After that period
comes the Judgment following the Second or
General Resurrection of the Dead.
The texts read:
1Kings 6:1-38 And it came to pass in the four
hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel
were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year
of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month Zif,
which is the second month, that he began to build the
house of the LORD. 2 And the house which king
Solomon built for the LORD, the length thereof was
threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty
cubits, and the height thereof thirty cubits. 3 And the
porch before the temple of the house, twenty cubits
was the length thereof, according to the breadth of
the house; and ten cubits was the breadth thereof
before the house. 4 And for the house he made
windows of narrow lights. 5 And against the wall of
the house he built chambers round about, against the
walls of the house round about, both of the temple
and of the oracle: and he made chambers round
about: 6 The nethermost chamber was five cubits
broad, and the middle was six cubits broad, and the
third was seven cubits broad: for without in the wall
of the house he made narrowed rests round about,
that the beams should not be fastened in the walls of
the house. 7 And the house, when it was in building,
was built of stone made ready before it was brought
thither: so that there was neither hammer nor axe nor
any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in
building. 8 The door for the middle chamber was in
the right side of the house: and they went up with
winding stairs into the middle chamber, and out of
the middle into the third. 9 So he built the house, and
finished it; and covered the house with beams and
boards of cedar. 10 And then he built chambers
against all the house, five cubits high: and they rested
on the house with timber of cedar.
The stones of the Temple were made ready
elsewhere and brought to the site. In the same
way the living stones are made ready away from
Jerusalem and brought there for the
establishment of the Spiritual Temple at the
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no work on site, being a building fitly framed
together.
There are thus two phases to the construction:
one in the establishment of the Living Stones;
the other in the physical system under the Law
at Jerusalem.
In the construction of the Temple the word of
God then was given to Solomon, establishing a
covenant with Israel that was conditional to
obedience.
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And the word of the LORD came to Solomon,
saying, 12 Concerning this house which thou art in
building, if thou wilt walk in my statutes, and execute
my judgments, and keep all my commandments to
walk in them; then will I perform my word with thee,
which I spake unto David thy father: 13 And I will
dwell among the children of Israel, and will not
forsake my people Israel. 14 So Solomon built the
house, and finished it. 15 And he built the walls of the
house within with boards of cedar, both the floor of
the house, and the walls of the ceiling: and he
covered them on the inside with wood, and covered
the floor of the house with planks of fir. 16 And he
built twenty cubits on the sides of the house, both the
floor and the walls with boards of cedar: he even
built them for it within, even for the oracle, even for
the most holy place. 17 And the house, that is, the
temple before it, was forty cubits long. 18 And the
cedar of the house within was carved with knops and
open flowers: all was cedar; there was no stone seen.
19
And the oracle he prepared in the house within, to
set there the ark of the covenant of the LORD. 20 And
the oracle in the forepart was twenty cubits in length,
and twenty cubits in breadth, and twenty cubits in the
height thereof: and he overlaid it with pure gold; and
so covered the altar which was of cedar. 21 So
Solomon overlaid the house within with pure gold:
and he made a partition by the chains of gold before
the oracle; and he overlaid it with gold. 22 And the
whole house he overlaid with gold, until he had
finished all the house: also the whole altar that was
by the oracle he overlaid with gold. 23 And within the
oracle he made two cherubims of olive tree, each ten
cubits high. 24 And five cubits was the one wing of
the cherub, and five cubits the other wing of the
cherub: from the uttermost part of the one wing unto
the uttermost part of the other were ten cubits. 25 And
the other cherub was ten cubits: both the cherubims
were of one measure and one size. 26 The height of
the one cherub was ten cubits, and so was it of the
other cherub. 27 And he set the cherubims within the
inner house: and they stretched forth the wings of the
cherubims, so that the wing of the one touched the
one wall, and the wing of the other cherub touched
the other wall; and their wings touched one another in
the midst of the house. 28 And he overlaid the
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cherubims with gold. 29 And he carved all the walls of
the house round about with carved figures of
cherubims and palm trees and open flowers, within
and without. 30 And the floor of the house he overlaid
with gold, within and without. 31 And for the entering
of the oracle he made doors of olive tree: the lintel
and side posts were a fifth part of the wall. 32 The two
doors also were of olive tree; and he carved upon
them carvings of cherubims and palm trees and open
flowers, and overlaid them with gold, and spread
gold upon the cherubims, and upon the palm trees. 33
So also made he for the door of the temple posts of
olive tree, a fourth part of the wall. 34 And the two
doors were of fir tree: the two leaves of the one door
were folding, and the two leaves of the other door
were folding. 35 And he carved thereon cherubims
and palm trees and open flowers: and covered them
with gold fitted upon the carved work. 36 And he built
the inner court with three rows of hewed stone, and a
row of cedar beams. 37 In the fourth year was the
foundation of the house of the LORD laid, in the
month Zif: 38 And in the eleventh year, in the month
Bul, which is the eighth month, was the house
finished throughout all the parts thereof, and
according to all the fashion of it. So was he seven
years in building it. (KJV)
This is the first sequence of the Key of David
and it relates to the primary structure, which is
the House of God made of Living Stones; and
that sequence relates to the return of the
Messiah and its completion for the Nations.
Solomon’s House
Solomon’s house took thirteen years to build,
then he built the house of the Forest of Lebanon
also. The Temple was the major effort and it all
took twenty years. He also set Pharaoh’s
daughter up in her own house.
The sequence, as we see, is seven years and
seven months for the House of God and then
thirteen years for the House of the King, the
Porch of Judgment, and the House of the Forest
of Lebanon.
1Kings 7:1-51 But Solomon was building his own
house thirteen years, and he finished all his house. 2
He built also the house of the forest of Lebanon; the
length thereof was an hundred cubits, and the breadth
thereof fifty cubits, and the height thereof thirty
cubits, upon four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar
beams upon the pillars. 3 And it was covered with
cedar above upon the beams, that lay on forty five
pillars, fifteen in a row. 4 And there were windows in
three rows, and light was against light in three ranks.
5
And all the doors and posts were square, with the
windows: and light was against light in three ranks. 6
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And he made a porch of pillars; the length thereof
was fifty cubits, and the breadth thereof thirty cubits:
and the porch was before them: and the other pillars
and the thick beam were before them. 7 Then he made
a porch for the throne where he might judge, even the
porch of judgment: and it was covered with cedar
from one side of the floor to the other. 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. 9 All these were of
costly stones, according to the measures of hewed
stones, sawed with saws, within and without, even
from the foundation unto the coping, and so on the
outside toward the great court. 10 And the foundation
was of costly stones, even great stones, stones of ten
cubits, and stones of eight cubits. 11 And above were
costly stones, after the measures of hewed stones, and
cedars. 12 And the great court round about was with
three rows of hewed stones, and a row of cedar
beams, both for the inner court of the house of the
LORD, and for the porch of the house.
Hiram assisted in the construction. Hiram king
of Tyre was half-Israelite. His father was of
Tyre and his mother was a widow of the tribe of
Napthali. So too are the allied nations of Israel
today as we see in the texts mentioned herein.
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And king Solomon sent and fetched Hiram out of
Tyre. 14 He was a widow's son of the tribe of
Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a worker
in brass: and he was filled with wisdom, and
understanding, and cunning to work all works in
brass. And he came to king Solomon, and wrought all
his work. 15 For he cast two pillars of brass, of
eighteen cubits high apiece: and a line of twelve
cubits did compass either of them about. 16 And he
made two chapiters of molten brass, to set upon the
tops of the pillars: the height of the one chapiter was
five cubits, and the height of the other chapiter was
five cubits: 17 And nets of checker work, and wreaths
of chain work, for the chapiters which were upon the
top of the pillars; seven for the one chapiter, and
seven for the other chapiter. 18 And he made the
pillars, and two rows round about upon the one
network, to cover the chapiters that were upon the
top, with pomegranates: and so did he for the other
chapiter. 19 And the chapiters that were upon the top
of the pillars were of lily work in the porch, four
cubits. 20 And the chapiters upon the two pillars had
pomegranates also above, over against the belly
which was by the network: and the pomegranates
were two hundred in rows round about upon the other
chapiter. 21 And he set up the pillars in the porch of
the temple: and he set up the right pillar, and called
the name thereof Jachin: and he set up the left pillar,
and called the name thereof Boaz. 22 And upon the
top of the pillars was lily work: so was the work of
the pillars finished. 23 And he made a molten sea, ten
cubits from the one brim to the other: it was round all
about, and his height was five cubits: and a line of
thirty cubits did compass it round about. 24 And under
the brim of it round about there were knops
compassing it, ten in a cubit, compassing the sea
round about: the knops were cast in two rows, when
it was cast. 25 It stood upon twelve oxen, three
looking toward the north, and three looking toward
the west, and three looking toward the south, and
three looking toward the east: and the sea was set
above upon them, and all their hinder parts were
inward. 26 And it was an hand breadth thick, and the
brim thereof was wrought like the brim of a cup, with
flowers of lilies: it contained two thousand baths. 27
And he made ten bases of brass; four cubits was the
length of one base, and four cubits the breadth
thereof, and three cubits the height of it. 28 And the
work of the bases was on this manner: they had
borders, and the borders were between the ledges: 29
And on the borders that were between the ledges
were lions, oxen, and cherubims: and upon the ledges
there was a base above: and beneath the lions and
oxen were certain additions made of thin work. 30
And every base had four brasen wheels, and plates of
brass: and the four corners thereof had undersetters:
under the laver were undersetters molten, at the side
of every addition. 31 And the mouth of it within the
chapiter and above was a cubit: but the mouth thereof
was round after the work of the base, a cubit and an
half: and also upon the mouth of it were gravings
with their borders, foursquare, not round. 32 And
under the borders were four wheels; and the axletrees
of the wheels were joined to the base: and the height
of a wheel was a cubit and half a cubit. 33 And the
work of the wheels was like the work of a chariot
wheel: their axletrees, and their naves, and their
felloes, and their spokes, were all molten. 34 And
there were four undersetters to the four corners of
one base: and the undersetters were of the very base
itself. 35 And in the top of the base was there a round
compass of half a cubit high: and on the top of the
base the ledges thereof and the borders thereof were
of the same. 36 For on the plates of the ledges thereof,
and on the borders thereof, he graved cherubims,
lions, and palm trees, according to the proportion of
every one, and additions round about. 37 After this
manner he made the ten bases: all of them had one
casting, one measure, and one size. 38 Then made he
ten lavers of brass: one laver contained forty baths:
and every laver was four cubits: and upon every one
of the ten bases one laver. 39 And he put five bases on
the right side of the house, and five on the left side of
the house: and he set the sea on the right side of the
house eastward over against the south. 40 And Hiram
made the lavers, and the shovels, and the basons. So
Hiram made an end of doing all the work that he
made king Solomon for the house of the LORD: 41
The two pillars, and the two bowls of the chapiters
that were on the top of the two pillars; and the two
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which were upon the top of the pillars; 42 And four
hundred pomegranates for the two networks, even
two rows of pomegranates for one network, to cover
the two bowls of the chapiters that were upon the
pillars; 43 And the ten bases, and ten lavers on the
bases; 44 And one sea, and twelve oxen under the sea;
45
And the pots, and the shovels, and the basons: and
all these vessels, which Hiram made to king Solomon
for the house of the LORD, were of bright brass. 46 In
the plain of Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay
ground between Succoth and Zarthan. 47 And
Solomon left all the vessels unweighed, because they
were exceeding many: neither was the weight of the
brass found out. 48 And Solomon made all the vessels
that pertained unto the house of the LORD: the altar
of gold, and the table of gold, whereupon the
shewbread was, 49 And the candlesticks of pure gold,
five on the right side, and five on the left, before the
oracle, with the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs
of gold, 50 And the bowls, and the snuffers, and the
basons, and the spoons, and the censers of pure gold;
and the hinges of gold, both for the doors of the inner
house, the most holy place, and for the doors of the
house, to wit, of the temple. 51 So was ended all the
work that king Solomon made for the house of the
LORD. And Solomon brought in the things which
David his father had dedicated; even the silver, and
the gold, and the vessels, did he put among the
treasures of the house of the LORD. (KJV)
The names of the pillars of the Temple are
derived from the names of two Israelites. One,
Jachin, was a Simeonite, the ancestor of the
Jachinites. The second, Boaz, was a member of
Judah. The story of Boaz is well known. He
became the husband of Ruth and the father of
Obed and Jesse and David and thence to the
Messiah (see the paper Ruth (No. 27)). His name
Boaz (SHD 1162) is from an unused root of
uncertain meaning and was only applied to this
man, the ancestor of David. With different
vowels it may relate to being strengthened.
The name of Jachin (Yachin, SHD 3199) means:
He will establish, or Yah (or more fully
Yaho[vah]) will establish and can be more
readily seen as a reference to the meaning of the
name in God as being the One who will
establish.
Although we cannot discount the fact that as
Simeon was to be scattered in Israel, he may
also have been an ancestor of David, and that
David named both pillars for the strong
ancestors of his line as examples of the Faith.
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It is much more likely that the symbolism of the
names point to the role of God in the
establishment of the Spiritual Temple of God.
Whilst the name of Boaz is not as clear in
meaning, it also is explained by his redemptive
role in the story of Ruth. Thus the two pillars at
the entrance to the Temple mean: He
strengthens (Bullinger says: in Him is strength)
and He establishes. Those meanings point to the
central acts of the construction of the final
spiritual Temple of God.
They also have specific meaning and their
measurements are given differently in a number
of texts. These are not contradictions, but rather
variations on the way they were measured.
In 1Kings 7:15-16, the two pillars are stated to
measure 18 cubits high for one pillar, and the
second pillar was twelve cubits in girth. The
capitals were 5 cubits. The totals of pillar and
capitals are thus 23 cubits high and 12 cubits in
girth
We assume that both pillars are symmetrical and
it is merely worded as it is to show the
measurements of height and girth for the both
pillars. Jeremiah 52:21-22 gives exactly the
same height for the pillars and capitals. 2Kings
25:17 says the pillars were 18 high, plus 3 cubits
for the capitals. This measurement in all
probability excluded the leaf decoration, which
was lily work as mentioned in the texts (1Kgs.
7:22).
The text in 2Chronicles gives the pillars a
combined measurement of 35 cubits and 5 for
the capitals. So, the pillars are 35 cubits at 17.5
cubits each with a half cubit for the join, and the
pedestals were 5 cubits.
Commentators rarely examine the intention of
the text. The number forty is the number of
repentance, and the pillars symbolise the
redemption of God and His establishment over
the period of repentance allocated to the
individual.
The
pillars
represent
the
development of a man by the intervention of
God. The ratios of each pillar are 1 to 6 plus 2/3,
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which is the dimension of a man in body to
head, at almost 1 to 7.
The capitals have varying measurements.
1Kings 7:20 says that the pomegranates on the
capitals were two hundred in rows round about
the chapters. The pillar on the right was Jachin
and the one on the left was Boaz. Further down
in verse 42 it says they were two hundred in
order to show the two hundred were reckoned to
each capital (see also 2Chr. 4:13). In
2Chronicles 3:16 they are termed a hundred,
meaning, they are a hundred in each row.
Jeremiah 52:23 says that the rows to Ruach or to
windward (i.e. exposed) are 96.
2Chronicles also goes on to say that the porch
was 120 cubits, using me’ah (SHD 3967) and
'esriym (SHD 6242). 1Kings 6:2-3 says the
Temple was 60 cubits long, twenty cubits wide
and thirty cubits high. It also says the porch was
20 cubits long, and according to the breadth of
the house, and the breadth on the front of the
house (i.e. entering the porch) was 10 cubits. It
is silent as to the height of the porch, and people
assume that it was the same height as the body
of the Temple but the texts say it was four times
the height of the body of the Temple. The porch
at 120 cubits symbolised the duration of the
physical creation in this age measured in
Jubilees. That figure was also symbolised in the
life of Moses as we saw in the Pentateuch. The
life of Moses was divided into three parts of
forty years, and was reflected also in the three
phases of the Rule of the Kings. The figure
“thirty” in the main body depicted the inner
government of God, and also the age to be
attained before one could become an elder of the
congregation of God.
The six levels in the entry depicted the first six
cycles in the life of man. The seventh level,
which was the body of the Temple itself,
symbolised the final Sabbath cycle of the
Jubilee allocated to mankind. A man had to be
twenty years of age to enter adulthood and be
eligible for war. One had to be twenty-five years
before being enrolled in the Temple service, and
thirty years to be an elder of God.
A person was allocated one Jubilee as an adult
to develop in the Holy Spirit. Moses was
allocated two Jubilees. David died at seventy
years of age, symbolising the reduction in time
to the single Jubilee. He handed over to
Solomon before his death, symbolising order in
the progression of authority to the Lord’s
Anointed.
The Holy of Holies was the Naos, which
represented the final year of human life and
when the person achieved oneness with God.
The Naos was to represent the stage of human
development when God entered man in the Holy
Spirit and elevated him to an elohim. That is
why the NT refers to us as being the Naos,
“which Naos we are” (1Cor. 3:17).
The tables, and the shewbread, and the ten
lampstands stood for the development of the
Church of God over the period allocated to the
Church in its seven stages of development under
the seven angels of the seven churches.
The other three represented the lampstands that
were Messiah and the Two Witnesses (see the
paper The Witnesses (including the Two
Witnesses) (No. 135)).
The Holy of Holies contained the Ark of the
Covenant and the Law of God, where the Law
was enshrined in the hearts of men who had
become the Temple of God.
The molten sea of the Temple was thirty cubits
around and ten cubits across and so God
revealed the ratio of the diameter to the
circumference (1:3) in the dimensions. It was
outside of the House of God as was the altar, to
symbolise that Christ died outside of the camp
as a sacrifice once and for all that we all might
be cleansed and redeemed to God.
The Temple dimensions pointed to the Plan of
Salvation and the redemption of humanity to
God. The sequence of its construction complied
with that plan and reflected it in every facet of
its development. The Key of David is
understanding and teaching the Mysteries of
God in accordance with the Jubilee structure
allocated to it, and being able to prophesy in
accordance with sound doctrine, and according
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to the Law and the Testimony.
Establishing the Ark in the Temple
Only when the Temple was complete was the
Ark of the Covenant brought to the Temple, so
that God might be seen as its centre. It was
brought up in the month of Tishri, which
symbolised the Advent of the Messiah and King
and Ruler of the Earth as the new Morning Star.
1Kings 8:1-66 Then Solomon assembled the elders
of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the chief of
the fathers of the children of Israel, unto king
Solomon in Jerusalem, that they might bring up the
ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the city of
David, which is Zion. 2 And all the men of Israel
assembled themselves unto king Solomon at the feast
in the month Ethanim, which is the seventh month. 3
And all the elders of Israel came, and the priests took
up the ark. 4 And they brought up the ark of the
LORD, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and
all the holy vessels that were in the tabernacle, even
those did the priests and the Levites bring up. 5 And
king Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel, that
were assembled unto him, were with him before the
ark, sacrificing sheep and oxen, that could not be told
nor numbered for multitude. 6 And the priests brought
in the ark of the covenant of the LORD unto his
place, into the oracle of the house, to the most holy
place, even under the wings of the cherubims. 7 For
the cherubims spread forth their two wings over the
place of the ark, and the cherubims covered the ark
and the staves thereof above. 8 And they drew out the
staves, that the ends of the staves were seen out in the
holy place before the oracle, and they were not seen
without: and there they are unto this day. 9 There was
nothing in the ark save the two tables of stone, which
Moses put there at Horeb, when the LORD made a
covenant with the children of Israel, when they came
out of the land of Egypt.
Thus the Tablets were placed in the Ark to
symbolise the fact that God would place His
Law in the hearts of all people and they would
become the central place of his residence as the
Naos or the Holy of Holies of the Temple of
God. That is why the Ark is to be brought no
more, as the Ark is the hearts of the elect of the
Churches of God.
10
And it came to pass, when the priests were come
out of the holy place, that the cloud filled the house
of the LORD, 11 So that the priests could not stand to
minister because of the cloud: for the glory of the
LORD had filled the house of the LORD. 12 Then
spake Solomon, The LORD said that he would dwell
in the thick darkness. 13 I have surely built thee an
house to dwell in, a settled place for thee to abide in
for ever. 14 And the king turned his face about, and
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blessed all the congregation of Israel: (and all the
congregation of Israel stood;) 15 And he said, Blessed
be the LORD God of Israel, which spake with his
mouth unto David my father, and hath with his hand
fulfilled it, saying, 16 Since the day that I brought
forth my people Israel out of Egypt, I chose no city
out of all the tribes of Israel to build an house, that
my name might be therein; but I chose David to be
over my people Israel. 17 And it was in the heart of
David my father to build an house for the name of the
LORD God of Israel. 18 And the LORD said unto
David my father, Whereas it was in thine heart to
build an house unto my name, thou didst well that it
was in thine heart. 19 Nevertheless thou shalt not build
the house; but thy son that shall come forth out of thy
loins, he shall build the house unto my name. 20 And
the LORD hath performed his word that he spake,
and I am risen up in the room of David my father,
and sit on the throne of Israel, as the LORD
promised, and have built an house for the name of the
LORD God of Israel. 21 And I have set there a place
for the ark, wherein is the covenant of the LORD,
which he made with our fathers, when he brought
them out of the land of Egypt. 22 And Solomon stood
before the altar of the LORD in the presence of all
the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands
toward heaven: 23 And he said, LORD God of Israel,
there is no God like thee, in heaven above, or on
earth beneath, who keepest covenant and mercy with
thy servants that walk before thee with all their heart:
24
Who hast kept with thy servant David my father
that thou promisedst him: thou spakest also with thy
mouth, and hast fulfilled it with thine hand, as it is
this day. 25 Therefore now, LORD God of Israel,
keep with thy servant David my father that thou
promisedst him, saying, There shall not fail thee a
man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel; so that
thy children take heed to their way, that they walk
before me as thou hast walked before me. 26 And
now, O God of Israel, let thy word, I pray thee, be
verified, which thou spakest unto thy servant David
my father. 27 But will God indeed dwell on the earth?
behold, the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot
contain thee; how much less this house that I have
builded? 28 Yet have thou respect unto the prayer of
thy servant, and to his supplication, O LORD my
God, to hearken unto the cry and to the prayer, which
thy servant prayeth before thee to day: 29 That thine
eyes may be open toward this house night and day,
even toward the place of which thou hast said, My
name shall be there: that thou mayest hearken unto
the prayer which thy servant shall make toward this
place. 30 And hearken thou to the supplication of thy
servant, and of thy people Israel, when they shall
pray toward this place: and hear thou in heaven thy
dwelling place: and when thou hearest, forgive. 31 If
any man trespass against his neighbour, and an oath
be laid upon him to cause him to swear, and the oath
come before thine altar in this house: 32 Then hear
thou in heaven, and do, and judge thy servants,
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condemning the wicked, to bring his way upon his
head; and justifying the righteous, to give him
according to his righteousness. 33 When thy people
Israel be smitten down before the enemy, because
they have sinned against thee, and shall turn again to
thee, and confess thy name, and pray, and make
supplication unto thee in this house: 34 Then hear thou
in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy people Israel,
and bring them again unto the land which thou gavest
unto their fathers. 35 When heaven is shut up, and
there is no rain, because they have sinned against
thee; if they pray toward this place, and confess thy
name, and turn from their sin, when thou afflictest
them: 36 Then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin
of thy servants, and of thy people Israel, that thou
teach them the good way wherein they should walk,
and give rain upon thy land, which thou hast given to
thy people for an inheritance. 37 If there be in the land
famine, if there be pestilence, blasting, mildew,
locust, or if there be caterpiller; if their enemy
besiege them in the land of their cities; whatsoever
plague, whatsoever sickness there be; 38 What prayer
and supplication soever be made by any man, or by
all thy people Israel, which shall know every man the
plague of his own heart, and spread forth his hands
toward this house: 39 Then hear thou in heaven thy
dwelling place, and forgive, and do, and give to every
man according to his ways, whose heart thou
knowest; (for thou, even thou only, knowest the
hearts of all the children of men;) 40 That they may
fear thee all the days that they live in the land which
thou gavest unto our fathers. 41 Moreover concerning
a stranger, that is not of thy people Israel, but cometh
out of a far country for thy name's sake; 42 (For they
shall hear of thy great name, and of thy strong hand,
and of thy stretched out arm;) when he shall come
and pray toward this house; 43 Hear thou in heaven
thy dwelling place, and do according to all that the
stranger calleth to thee for: that all people of the earth
may know thy name, to fear thee, as do thy people
Israel; and that they may know that this house, which
I have builded, is called by thy name. 44 If thy people
go out to battle against their enemy, whithersoever
thou shalt send them, and shall pray unto the LORD
toward the city which thou hast chosen, and toward
the house that I have built for thy name: 45 Then hear
thou in heaven their prayer and their supplication,
and maintain their cause. 46 If they sin against thee,
(for there is no man that sinneth not,) and thou be
angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so
that they carry them away captives unto the land of
the enemy, far or near; 47 Yet if they shall bethink
themselves in the land whither they were carried
captives, and repent, and make supplication unto thee
in the land of them that carried them captives, saying,
We have sinned, and have done perversely, we have
committed wickedness; 48 And so return unto thee
with all their heart, and with all their soul, in the land
of their enemies, which led them away captive, and
pray unto thee toward their land, which thou gavest
unto their fathers, the city which thou hast chosen,
and the house which I have built for thy name: 49
Then hear thou their prayer and their supplication in
heaven thy dwelling place, and maintain their cause,
50
And forgive thy people that have sinned against
thee, and all their transgressions wherein they have
transgressed against thee, and give them compassion
before them who carried them captive, that they may
have compassion on them: 51 For they be thy people,
and thine inheritance, which thou broughtest forth out
of Egypt, from the midst of the furnace of iron: 52
That thine eyes may be open unto the supplication of
thy servant, and unto the supplication of thy people
Israel, to hearken unto them in all that they call for
unto thee. 53 For thou didst separate them from among
all the people of the earth, to be thine inheritance, as
thou spakest by the hand of Moses thy servant, when
thou broughtest our fathers out of Egypt, O Lord
GOD. 54 And it was so, that when Solomon had made
an end of praying all this prayer and supplication
unto the LORD, he arose from before the altar of the
LORD, from kneeling on his knees with his hands
spread up to heaven. 55 And he stood, and blessed all
the congregation of Israel with a loud voice, saying,
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Blessed be the LORD, that hath given rest unto his
people Israel, according to all that he promised: there
hath not failed one word of all his good promise,
which he promised by the hand of Moses his servant.
57
The LORD our God be with us, as he was with our
fathers: let him not leave us, nor forsake us: 58 That
he may incline our hearts unto him, to walk in all his
ways, and to keep his commandments, and his
statutes, and his judgments, which he commanded our
fathers. 59 And let these my words, wherewith I have
made supplication before the LORD, be nigh unto the
LORD our God day and night, that he maintain the
cause of his servant, and the cause of his people
Israel at all times, as the matter shall require: 60 That
all the people of the earth may know that the LORD
is God, and that there is none else. 61 Let your heart
therefore be perfect with the LORD our God, to walk
in his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as at
this day. 62 And the king, and all Israel with him,
offered sacrifice before the LORD. 63 And Solomon
offered a sacrifice of peace offerings, which he
offered unto the LORD, two and twenty thousand
oxen, and an hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So
the king and all the children of Israel dedicated the
house of the LORD. 64 The same day did the king
hallow the middle of the court that was before the
house of the LORD: for there he offered burnt
offerings, and meat offerings, and the fat of the peace
offerings: because the brasen altar that was before the
LORD was too little to receive the burnt offerings,
and meat offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings.
65
And at that time Solomon held a feast, and all
Israel with him, a great congregation, from the
entering in of Hamath unto the river of Egypt, before
the LORD our God, seven days and seven days, even
fourteen days. 66 On the eighth day he sent the people
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away: and they blessed the king, and went unto their
tents joyful and glad of heart for all the goodness that
the LORD had done for David his servant, and for
Israel his people. (KJV)
(End tape 282C2)
The Covenant
Solomon
established
with
The Angel of God, the subordinate God of Israel
we know as Christ (Ps. 45:6-7; Heb. 1:8,9),
appeared to Solomon and established God’s
Covenant with him and the Nation. The
Covenant was conditional. They were told they
would be punished if they did not keep it.
1Kings 9:1-28 And it came to pass, when Solomon
had finished the building of the house of the LORD,
and the king's house, and all Solomon's desire which
he was pleased to do, 2 That the LORD appeared to
Solomon the second time, as he had appeared unto
him at Gibeon. 3 And the LORD said unto him, I
have heard thy prayer and thy supplication, that thou
hast made before me: I have hallowed this house,
which thou hast built, to put my name there for ever;
and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there
perpetually. 4 And if thou wilt walk before me, as
David thy father walked, in integrity of heart, and in
uprightness, to do according to all that I have
commanded thee, and wilt keep my statutes and my
judgments: 5 Then I will establish the throne of thy
kingdom upon Israel for ever, as I promised to David
thy father, saying, There shall not fail thee a man
upon the throne of Israel. 6 But if ye shall at all turn
from following me, ye or your children, and will not
keep my commandments and my statutes which I
have set before you, but go and serve other gods, and
worship them: 7 Then will I cut off Israel out of the
land which I have given them; and this house, which I
have hallowed for my name, will I cast out of my
sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword
among all people: 8 And at this house, which is high,
every one that passeth by it shall be astonished, and
shall hiss; and they shall say, Why hath the LORD
done thus unto this land, and to this house? 9 And
they shall answer, Because they forsook the LORD
their God, who brought forth their fathers out of the
land of Egypt, and have taken hold upon other gods,
and have worshipped them, and served them:
therefore hath the LORD brought upon them all this
evil. 10 And it came to pass at the end of twenty years,
when Solomon had built the two houses, the house of
the LORD, and the king's house, 11 (Now Hiram the
king of Tyre had furnished Solomon with cedar trees
and fir trees, and with gold, according to all his
desire,) that then king Solomon gave Hiram twenty
cities in the land of Galilee. 12 And Hiram came out
from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given
him; and they pleased him not. 13 And he said, What
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cities are these which thou hast given me, my
brother? And he called them the land of Cabul unto
this day. 14 And Hiram sent to the king sixscore
talents of gold. 15 And this is the reason of the levy
which king Solomon raised; for to build the house of
the LORD, and his own house, and Millo, and the
wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and
Gezer. 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. 17 And
Solomon built Gezer, and Bethhoron the nether, 18
And Baalath, and Tadmor in the wilderness, in the
land, 19 And all the cities of store that Solomon had,
and cities for his chariots, and cities for his
horsemen, and that which Solomon desired to build
in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all the land of
his dominion. 20 And all the people that were left of
the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and
Jebusites, which were not of the children of Israel, 21
Their children that were left after them in the land,
whom the children of Israel also were not able utterly
to destroy, upon those did Solomon levy a tribute of
bondservice unto this day. 22 But of the children of
Israel did Solomon make no bondmen: but they were
men of war, and his servants, and his princes, and his
captains, and rulers of his chariots, and his horsemen.
23
These were the chief of the officers that were over
Solomon's work, five hundred and fifty, which bare
rule over the people that wrought in the work. 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. 25 And three times in a year did
Solomon offer burnt offerings and peace offerings
upon the altar which he built unto the LORD, and he
burnt incense upon the altar that was before the
LORD. So he finished the house. 26 And king
Solomon made a navy of ships in Eziongeber, which
is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red sea, in the
land of Edom. 27 And Hiram sent in the navy his
servants, shipmen that had knowledge of the sea, with
the servants of Solomon. 28 And they came to Ophir,
and fetched from thence gold, four hundred and
twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon.
(KJV)
So also the text on Chronicles deals with the
sequence of the Temple and the Covenant
established with the Nation.
2Chronicles 2:1-18 And Solomon determined to
build an house for the name of the LORD, and an
house for his kingdom. 2 And Solomon told out
threescore and ten thousand men to bear burdens, and
fourscore thousand to hew in the mountain, and three
thousand and six hundred to oversee them. 3 And
Solomon sent to Huram the king of Tyre, saying, As
thou didst deal with David my father, and didst send
him cedars to build him an house to dwell therein,
even so deal with me. 4 Behold, I build an house to
the name of the LORD my God, to dedicate it to him,
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and to burn before him sweet incense, and for the
continual shewbread, and for the burnt offerings
morning and evening, on the sabbaths, and on the
new moons, and on the solemn feasts of the LORD
our God. This is an ordinance for ever to Israel. 5 And
the house which I build is great: for great is our God
above all gods. 6 But who is able to build him an
house, seeing the heaven and heaven of heavens
cannot contain him? who am I then, that I should
build him an house, save only to burn sacrifice before
him? 7 Send me now therefore a man cunning to work
in gold, and in silver, and in brass, and in iron, and in
purple, and crimson, and blue, and that can skill to
grave with the cunning men that are with me in Judah
and in Jerusalem, whom David my father did provide.
8
Send me also cedar trees, fir trees, and algum trees,
out of Lebanon: for I know that thy servants can skill
to cut timber in Lebanon; and, behold, my servants
shall be with thy servants, 9 Even to prepare me
timber in abundance: for the house which I am about
to build shall be wonderful great. 10 And, behold, I
will give to thy servants, the hewers that cut timber,
twenty thousand measures of beaten wheat, and
twenty thousand measures of barley, and twenty
thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of
oil. 11 Then Huram the king of Tyre answered in
writing, which he sent to Solomon, Because the
LORD hath loved his people, he hath made thee king
over them. 12 Huram said moreover, Blessed be the
LORD God of Israel, that made heaven and earth,
who hath given to David the king a wise son, endued
with prudence and understanding, that might build an
house for the LORD, and an house for his kingdom.
13
And now I have sent a cunning man, endued with
understanding, of Huram my father's, 14 The son of a
woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father was a
man of Tyre, skilful to work in gold, and in silver, in
brass, in iron, in stone, and in timber, in purple, in
blue, and in fine linen, and in crimson; also to grave
any manner of graving, and to find out every device
which shall be put to him, with thy cunning men, and
with the cunning men of my lord David thy father.
As Hiram was also half-Israelite, so too was the
artificer that he sent. His father was also Hiram
and the artificer was his father’s man. That man
was from a woman of Dan, and a man of Tyre.
The participation of the females of Israel in
intermarrying with Gentiles brought the Gentiles
into the construction of the Temple. That fact
pointed towards the composite nature of Israel
in the Last Days and that salvation was of the
Gentiles.
15
Now therefore the wheat, and the barley, the oil,
and the wine, which my lord hath spoken of, let him
send unto his servants: 16 And we will cut wood out
of Lebanon, as much as thou shalt need: and we will
bring it to thee in floats by sea to Joppa; and thou
shalt carry it up to Jerusalem. 17 And Solomon
numbered all the strangers that were in the land of
Israel, after the numbering wherewith David his
father had numbered them; and they were found an
hundred and fifty thousand and three thousand and
six hundred. 18 And he set threescore and ten
thousand of them to be bearers of burdens, and
fourscore thousand to be hewers in the mountain, and
three thousand and six hundred overseers to set the
people a work. (KJV)
There were 153,600 strangers in Israel and they
were put to work in the construction as levies.
Seventy thousand men were bearers of burdens,
80,000 were hewers in the mountains and 3,600
were overseers. Thus all the Gentiles within
Israel were used in the construction. Salvation
when extended to the Gentiles is universal.
2Chronicles 3:1-17 Then Solomon began to build the
house of the LORD at Jerusalem in mount Moriah,
where the LORD appeared unto David his father, in
the place that David had prepared in the
threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite. 2 And he began
to build in the second day of the second month, in the
fourth year of his reign. 3 Now these are the things
wherein Solomon was instructed for the building of
the house of God. The length by cubits after the first
measure was threescore cubits, and the breadth
twenty cubits. 4 And the porch that was in the front of
the house, the length of it was according to the
breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the height
was an hundred and twenty: and he overlaid it within
with pure gold. 5 And the greater house he cieled with
fir tree, which he overlaid with fine gold, and set
thereon palm trees and chains. 6 And he garnished the
house with precious stones for beauty: and the gold
was gold of Parvaim. 7 He overlaid also the house, the
beams, the posts, and the walls thereof, and the doors
thereof, with gold; and graved cherubims on the
walls. 8 And he made the most holy house, the length
whereof was according to the breadth of the house,
twenty cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty cubits:
and he overlaid it with fine gold, amounting to six
hundred talents. 9 And the weight of the nails was
fifty shekels of gold. And he overlaid the upper
chambers with gold. 10 And in the most holy house he
made two cherubims of image work, and overlaid
them with gold. 11 And the wings of the cherubims
were twenty cubits long: one wing of the one cherub
was five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house: and
the other wing was likewise five cubits, reaching to
the wing of the other cherub. 12 And one wing of the
other cherub was five cubits, reaching to the wall of
the house: and the other wing was five cubits also,
joining to the wing of the other cherub. 13 The wings
of these cherubims spread themselves forth twenty
cubits: and they stood on their feet, and their faces
were inward. 14 And he made the vail of blue, and
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purple, and crimson, and fine linen, and wrought
cherubims thereon. 15 Also he made before the house
two pillars of thirty and five cubits high, and the
chapiter that was on the top of each of them was five
cubits. 16 And he made chains, as in the oracle, and
put them on the heads of the pillars; and made an
hundred pomegranates, and put them on the chains. 17
And he reared up the pillars before the temple, one
on the right hand, and the other on the left; and called
the name of that on the right hand Jachin, and the
name of that on the left Boaz. (KJV)
It is through the salvation of God that we enter
the Temple of God. The Cherubim protect the
throne of God and represent the Cherubim of the
Host. The Cherubim of Ezekiel’s Temple
demonstrate that the two replacement Cherubim
on either side of the palm that is Christ, are
replacing the man and lion-headed cherubim of
the Fallen Host, namely Satan and the lionheaded Aeon. These elohim are Abraham and
Moses, who are the only two mentioned as
Elohim in the texts of Genesis and Exodus.
Whilst Abraham and Moses are the only two
mentioned as Elohim, the transfiguration
couples Moses and Elijah (Mat. 17:3). Thus we
can assume that there are at least four beings
involved in the sequence, namely Enoch,
Abraham, Moses and Elijah and perhaps even
another two beings yet to be identified.
2Chronicles 4:1-22 Moreover he made an altar of
brass, twenty cubits the length thereof, and twenty
cubits the breadth thereof, and ten cubits the height
thereof. 2 Also he made a molten sea of ten cubits
from brim to brim, round in compass, and five cubits
the height thereof; and a line of thirty cubits did
compass it round about. 3 And under it was the
similitude of oxen, which did compass it round about:
ten in a cubit, compassing the sea round about. Two
rows of oxen were cast, when it was cast. 4 It stood
upon twelve oxen, three looking toward the north,
and three looking toward the west, and three looking
toward the south, and three looking toward the east:
and the sea was set above upon them, and all their
hinder parts were inward. 5 And the thickness of it
was an handbreadth, and the brim of it like the work
of the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies; and it
received and held three thousand baths. 6 He made
also ten lavers, and put five on the right hand, and
five on the left, to wash in them: such things as they
offered for the burnt offering they washed in them;
but the sea was for the priests to wash in. 7 And he
made ten candlesticks of gold according to their
form, and set them in the temple, five on the right
hand, and five on the left. 8 He made also ten tables,
and placed them in the temple, five on the right side,
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and five on the left. And he made an hundred basons
of gold. 9 Furthermore he made the court of the
priests, and the great court, and doors for the court,
and overlaid the doors of them with brass. 10 And he
set the sea on the right side of the east end, over
against the south. 11 And Huram made the pots, and
the shovels, and the basons. And Huram finished the
work that he was to make for king Solomon for the
house of God; 12 To wit, the two pillars, and the
pommels, and the chapiters which were on the top of
the two pillars, and the two wreaths to cover the two
pommels of the chapiters which were on the top of
the pillars; 13 And four hundred pomegranates on the
two wreaths; two rows of pomegranates on each
wreath, to cover the two pommels of the chapiters
which were upon the pillars. 14 He made also bases,
and lavers made he upon the bases; 15 One sea, and
twelve oxen under it. 16 The pots also, and the
shovels, and the fleshhooks, and all their instruments,
did Huram his father make to king Solomon for the
house of the LORD of bright brass. 17 In the plain of
Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay ground
between Succoth and Zeredathah. 18 Thus Solomon
made all these vessels in great abundance: for the
weight of the brass could not be found out. 19 And
Solomon made all the vessels that were for the house
of God, the golden altar also, and the tables whereon
the shewbread was set; 20 Moreover the candlesticks
with their lamps, that they should burn after the
manner before the oracle, of pure gold; 21 And the
flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs, made he of
gold, and that perfect gold; 22 And the snuffers, and
the basons, and the spoons, and the censers, of pure
gold: and the entry of the house, the inner doors
thereof for the most holy place, and the doors of the
house of the temple, were of gold. (KJV)
Gold did not tarnish and was a malleable metal.
So too the elect are to be pure and refined and
malleable or teachable.
2Chronicles 5:1 Thus all the work that Solomon
made for the house of the LORD was finished: and
Solomon brought in [all] the things that David his
father had dedicated; and the silver, and the gold, and
all the instruments, put he among the treasures of the
house of God.
There were items dedicated in preparation, and
these were then brought into the Temple when it
was ready. Thus there were elements used in the
construction and there were items set aside for
use after the first phase of the construction was
completed.
2Chronicles 5:2 Then Solomon assembled the elders
of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the chief of
the fathers of the children of Israel, unto Jerusalem,
to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out
of the city of David, which [is] Zion.
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When the Temple was ready the Ark of the
Covenant was brought to Jerusalem. Thus the
Ark symbolised the Holy Spirit within the elect,
which takes up residence at Jerusalem after the
Messiah has completed the primary phase.
Salvation is also of Judah and Jerusalem in that
phase, as with all Israel.
2Chronicles 5:3-14 Wherefore all the men of Israel
assembled themselves unto the king in the feast
which was in the seventh month. 4 And all the elders
of Israel came; and the Levites took up the ark. 5 And
they brought up the ark, and the tabernacle of the
congregation, and all the holy vessels that were in the
tabernacle, these did the priests and the Levites bring
up. 6 Also king Solomon, and all the congregation of
Israel that were assembled unto him before the ark,
sacrificed sheep and oxen, which could not be told
nor numbered for multitude. 7 And the priests brought
in the ark of the covenant of the LORD unto his
place, to the oracle of the house, into the most holy
place, even under the wings of the cherubims: 8 For
the cherubims spread forth their wings over the place
of the ark, and the cherubims covered the ark and the
staves thereof above. 9 And they drew out the staves
of the ark, that the ends of the staves were seen from
the ark before the oracle; but they were not seen
without. And there it is unto this day. 10 There was
nothing in the ark save the two tables which Moses
put therein at Horeb, when the LORD made a
covenant with the children of Israel, when they came
out of Egypt. 11 And it came to pass, when the priests
were come out of the holy place: (for all the priests
that were present were sanctified, and did not then
wait by course: 12 Also the Levites which were the
singers, all of them of Asaph, of Heman, of Jeduthun,
with their sons and their brethren, being arrayed in
white linen, having cymbals and psalteries and harps,
stood at the east end of the altar, and with them an
hundred and twenty priests sounding with trumpets:)
13
It came even to pass, as the trumpeters and singers
were as one, to make one sound to be heard in
praising and thanking the LORD; and when they
lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals
and instruments of musick, and praised the LORD,
saying, For he is good; for his mercy endureth for
ever: that then the house was filled with a cloud, even
the house of the LORD; 14 So that the priests could
not stand to minister by reason of the cloud: for the
glory of the LORD had filled the house of God.
(KJV)
The Ark will be brought to mind no more (see
the paper The Ark of the Covenant (No. 196)).
The representation is that the Holy Spirit, which
conveys the Law of God and its understanding,
will replace the physical Ark and will convert
Judah and Israel in the Last Days, but only after
the primary edifice – the Church of God – has
been established.
2Chronicles 6:1-42 Then said Solomon, The LORD
hath said that he would dwell in the thick darkness. 2
But I have built an house of habitation for thee, and a
place for thy dwelling for ever. 3 And the king turned
his face, and blessed the whole congregation of
Israel: and all the congregation of Israel stood. 4 And
he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, who
hath with his hands fulfilled that which he spake with
his mouth to my father David, saying, 5 Since the day
that I brought forth my people out of the land of
Egypt I chose no city among all the tribes of Israel to
build an house in, that my name might be there;
neither chose I any man to be a ruler over my people
Israel: 6 But I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name
might be there; and have chosen David to be over my
people Israel. 7 Now it was in the heart of David my
father to build an house for the name of the LORD
God of Israel. 8 But the LORD said to David my
father, Forasmuch as it was in thine heart to build an
house for my name, thou didst well in that it was in
thine heart: 9 Notwithstanding thou shalt not build the
house; but thy son which shall come forth out of thy
loins, he shall build the house for my name. 10 The
LORD therefore hath performed his word that he
hath spoken: for I am risen up in the room of David
my father, and am set on the throne of Israel, as the
LORD promised, and have built the house for the
name of the LORD God of Israel. 11 And in it have I
put the ark, wherein is the covenant of the LORD,
that he made with the children of Israel. 12 And he
stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence of
all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his
hands: 13 For Solomon had made a brasen scaffold, of
five cubits long, and five cubits broad, and three
cubits high, and had set it in the midst of the court:
and upon it he stood, and kneeled down upon his
knees before all the congregation of Israel, and
spread forth his hands toward heaven, 14 And said, O
LORD God of Israel, there is no God like thee in the
heaven, nor in the earth; which keepest covenant, and
shewest mercy unto thy servants, that walk before
thee with all their hearts: 15 Thou which hast kept
with thy servant David my father that which thou hast
promised him; and spakest with thy mouth, and hast
fulfilled it with thine hand, as it is this day. 16 Now
therefore, O LORD God of Israel, keep with thy
servant David my father that which thou hast
promised him, saying, There shall not fail thee a man
in my sight to sit upon the throne of Israel; yet so that
thy children take heed to their way to walk in my law,
as thou hast walked before me. 17 Now then, O LORD
God of Israel, let thy word be verified, which thou
hast spoken unto thy servant David. 18 But will God
in very deed dwell with men on the earth? behold,
heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain
thee; how much less this house which I have built! 19
Have respect therefore to the prayer of thy servant,
and to his supplication, O LORD my God, to hearken
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unto the cry and the prayer which thy servant prayeth
before thee: 20 That thine eyes may be open upon this
house day and night, upon the place whereof thou
hast said that thou wouldest put thy name there; to
hearken unto the prayer which thy servant prayeth
toward this place. 21 Hearken therefore unto the
supplications of thy servant, and of thy people Israel,
which they shall make toward this place: hear thou
from thy dwelling place, even from heaven; and when
thou hearest, forgive. 22 If a man sin against his
neighbour, and an oath be laid upon him to make him
swear, and the oath come before thine altar in this
house; 23 Then hear thou from heaven, and do, and
judge thy servants, by requiting the wicked, by
recompensing his way upon his own head; and by
justifying the righteous, by giving him according to
his righteousness. 24 And if thy people Israel be put to
the worse before the enemy, because they have
sinned against thee; and shall return and confess thy
name, and pray and make supplication before thee in
this house; 25 Then hear thou from the heavens, and
forgive the sin of thy people Israel, and bring them
again unto the land which thou gavest to them and to
their fathers. 26 When the heaven is shut up, and there
is no rain, because they have sinned against thee; yet
if they pray toward this place, and confess thy name,
and turn from their sin, when thou dost afflict them;
27
Then hear thou from heaven, and forgive the sin of
thy servants, and of thy people Israel, when thou hast
taught them the good way, wherein they should walk;
and send rain upon thy land, which thou hast given
unto thy people for an inheritance. 28 If there be
dearth in the land, if there be pestilence, if there be
blasting, or mildew, locusts, or caterpillers; if their
enemies besiege them in the cities of their land;
whatsoever sore or whatsoever sickness there be: 29
Then what prayer or what supplication soever shall
be made of any man, or of all thy people Israel, when
every one shall know his own sore and his own grief,
and shall spread forth his hands in this house: 30 Then
hear thou from heaven thy dwelling place, and
forgive, and render unto every man according unto all
his ways, whose heart thou knowest; (for thou only
knowest the hearts of the children of men:) 31 That
they may fear thee, to walk in thy ways, so long as
they live in the land which thou gavest unto our
fathers. 32 Moreover concerning the stranger, which is
not of thy people Israel, but is come from a far
country for thy great name's sake, and thy mighty
hand, and thy stretched out arm; if they come and
pray in this house; 33 Then hear thou from the
heavens, even from thy dwelling place, and do
according to all that the stranger calleth to thee for;
that all people of the earth may know thy name, and
fear thee, as doth thy people Israel, and may know
that this house which I have built is called by thy
name. 34 If thy people go out to war against their
enemies by the way that thou shalt send them, and
they pray unto thee toward this city which thou hast
chosen, and the house which I have built for thy
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name; 35 Then hear thou from the heavens their
prayer and their supplication, and maintain their
cause. 36 If they sin against thee, (for there is no man
which sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and
deliver them over before their enemies, and they
carry them away captives unto a land far off or near;
37
Yet if they bethink themselves in the land whither
they are carried captive, and turn and pray unto thee
in the land of their captivity, saying, We have sinned,
we have done amiss, and have dealt wickedly; 38 If
they return to thee with all their heart and with all
their soul in the land of their captivity, whither they
have carried them captives, and pray toward their
land, which thou gavest unto their fathers, and toward
the city which thou hast chosen, and toward the house
which I have built for thy name: 39 Then hear thou
from the heavens, even from thy dwelling place, their
prayer and their supplications, and maintain their
cause, and forgive thy people which have sinned
against thee. 40 Now, my God, let, I beseech thee,
thine eyes be open, and let thine ears be attent unto
the prayer that is made in this place. 41 Now therefore
arise, O LORD God, into thy resting place, thou, and
the ark of thy strength: let thy priests, O LORD God,
be clothed with salvation, and let thy saints rejoice in
goodness. 42 O LORD God, turn not away the face of
thine anointed: remember the mercies of David thy
servant. (KJV)
Healing was extended to all in forgiveness of
sin. Thus the dedication of the House of God
was so that the Gentiles also could be saved,
and could turn and ask of God whatever they
would and it would be granted to them.
After Solomon had prayed, fire came down
from Heaven and consumed the burnt offerings
as a sign that God had heard and consented to
their prayers. The children of Israel were then
deeply conscious of what God had done. Thus
five hundred years after the Exodus, signs were
given again to Israel concerning the presence of
the Angel of the Lord with them as the Yahovah
of Israel, who was Jesus Christ (Ps. 45:6-7; Heb
1:8-9).
2Chronicles 7:1-22 Now when Solomon had made an
end of praying, the fire came down from heaven, and
consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices; and
the glory of the LORD filled the house. 2 And the
priests could not enter into the house of the LORD,
because the glory of the LORD had filled the
LORD'S house. 3 And when all the children of Israel
saw how the fire came down, and the glory of the
LORD upon the house, they bowed themselves with
their faces to the ground upon the pavement, and
worshipped, and praised the LORD, saying, For he is
good; for his mercy endureth for ever. 4 Then the
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king and all the people offered sacrifices before the
LORD. 5 And king Solomon offered a sacrifice of
twenty and two thousand oxen, and an hundred and
twenty thousand sheep: so the king and all the people
dedicated the house of God. 6 And the priests waited
on their offices: the Levites also with instruments of
musick of the LORD, which David the king had
made to praise the LORD, because his mercy
endureth for ever, when David praised by their
ministry; and the priests sounded trumpets before
them, and all Israel stood. 7 Moreover Solomon
hallowed the middle of the court that was before the
house of the LORD: for there he offered burnt
offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings, because
the brasen altar which Solomon had made was not
able to receive the burnt offerings, and the meat
offerings, and the fat. 8 Also at the same time
Solomon kept the feast seven days, and all Israel with
him, a very great congregation, from the entering in
of Hamath unto the river of Egypt. 9 And in the
eighth day they made a solemn assembly: for they
kept the dedication of the altar seven days, and the
feast seven days. 10 And on the three and twentieth
day of the seventh month he sent the people away
into their tents, glad and merry in heart for the
goodness that the LORD had shewed unto David, and
to Solomon, and to Israel his people. 11 Thus
Solomon finished the house of the LORD, and the
king's house: and all that came into Solomon's heart
to make in the house of the LORD, and in his own
house, he prosperously effected.
The Feast of the Seventh month was for
fourteen days, being seven days for the
dedication of the altar, and seven days of
the Feast of Tabernacles. The dedication was
from 8 to 14 Tishri, and the seven days of the
Feast from 15 to 21 Tishri. The Last Great Day
was 22 Tishri, and on 23 Tishri they returned to
their homes. The Last Great Day was not
counted as the Feast in these calculations. The
Last Great Day in the end times signifies the
Great White Throne Judgment and is not part of
the millennial system. It is the Second
Resurrection of the Dead and relates to the
judgment of the world. In the Tishri sequence at
the end of this age it relates to the Jubilee of
2027. Then the Restoration is completed and the
people are returned to their lands in Israel and
the rest of the world.
This sequence also relates to the end of the age.
The twenty-one days referred to combine the
sequence to reach the millennial system as
outlined in the paper Sanctification of the
Nations (No. 77). That sequence is three lots of
seven days and the restoration for the new
system in Jerusalem. Thus the first seven years
of the Sanctification take us to 2012, which is
the responsibility of the Church. Its doctrine
must be correct and complete and published to
all nations by that date. The Key of David is
given to the faithful Church in the Last Days,
publishing the original doctrines of the Church
of God from the First century. That means a
Unitarian Monotheist structure with doctrine
intact, including the Sacred Calendar with New
Moons. That is the Key of David in explaining
the sequence of the Last Days in prophecy.
In the phase here, in the Temple sequence, the
Sanctification of the Altar is in fact the second
lot of seven days of Tishri, commencing on the
Eighth of Tishri, or 2013 in year-for-a-day terms
to the Jubilee of 2027. The final seven days is
the subjugation of the nations from Jerusalem
under Messiah from 2019 to 2026 (see also the
paper The Fall of Jericho (No. 142)). The
Jubilee in 2027 completes the process and 2028
is the New Millennial system. By 2028 the
physical Millennial Restoration is under way,
and the Temple system and the administrative
system in Jerusalem is constructed, as are the
houses of the King and the Porch of Judgment.
From there, judgment will issue to the world.
12
And the LORD appeared to Solomon by night, and
said unto him, I have heard thy prayer, and have
chosen this place to myself for an house of sacrifice.
13
If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I
command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send
pestilence among my people; 14 If my people, which
are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and
pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked
ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive
their sin, and will heal their land. 15 Now mine eyes
shall be open, and mine ears attent unto the prayer
that is made in this place. 16 For now have I chosen
and sanctified this house, that my name may be there
for ever: and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there
perpetually. 17 And as for thee, if thou wilt walk
before me, as David thy father walked, and do
according to all that I have commanded thee, and
shalt observe my statutes and my judgments; 18 Then
will I stablish the throne of thy kingdom, according
as I have covenanted with David thy father, saying,
There shall not fail thee a man to be ruler in Israel. 19
But if ye turn away, and forsake my statutes and my
commandments, which I have set before you, and
shall go and serve other gods, and worship them; 20
Then will I pluck them up by the roots out of my land
which I have given them; and this house, which I
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have sanctified for my name, will I cast out of my
sight, and will make it to be a proverb and a byword
among all nations. 21 And this house, which is high,
shall be an astonishment to every one that passeth by
it; so that he shall say, Why hath the LORD done thus
unto this land, and unto this house? 22 And it shall be
answered, Because they forsook the LORD God of
their fathers, which brought them forth out of the land
of Egypt, and laid hold on other gods, and
worshipped them, and served them: therefore hath he
brought all this evil upon them. (KJV)
Solomon was cautioned as to what would
happen if they engaged in idolatry, yet he
himself stumbled on this very injunction.
2Chronicles 8:1-18 And it came to pass at the end of
twenty years, wherein Solomon had built the house of
the LORD, and his own house, 2 That the cities which
Huram had restored to Solomon, Solomon built them,
and caused the children of Israel to dwell there. 3 And
Solomon went to Hamathzobah, and prevailed
against it. 4 And he built Tadmor in the wilderness,
and all the store cities, which he built in Hamath. 5
Also he built Bethhoron the upper, and Bethhoron the
nether, fenced cities, with walls, gates, and bars; 6
And Baalath, and all the store cities that Solomon
had, and all the chariot cities, and the cities of the
horsemen, and all that Solomon desired to build in
Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and throughout all the
land of his dominion. 7 As for all the people that were
left of the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the
Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which
were not of Israel, 8 But of their children, who were
left after them in the land, whom the children of
Israel consumed not, them did Solomon make to pay
tribute until this day. 9 But of the children of Israel
did Solomon make no servants for his work; but they
were men of war, and chief of his captains, and
captains of his chariots and horsemen. 10 And these
were the chief of king Solomon's officers, even two
hundred and fifty, that bare rule over the people. 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. 12
Then Solomon offered burnt offerings unto the
LORD on the altar of the LORD, which he had built
before the porch, 13 Even after a certain rate every
day, offering according to the commandment of
Moses, on the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and
on the solemn feasts, three times in the year, even in
the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of
weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles.
Solomon established the Laws of God and the
Calendar and kept the Sabbaths and New Moons
as Holy Days, as he did the Holy Days of the
Feasts; these he kept three times in the year,
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according to the sacred Calendar (see the paper
God’s Calendar (No. 156)). That system was
meant to be kept right down until the Temple
was destroyed in 70 CE. However, it was often
not kept, and the Feasts and the Reading of the
Law were often not done at all through apostasy
and indolence.
The system organised by David was instituted
and kept down to the porters on the gates, as
everything had meaning for the future Temple
under Jesus Christ.
14
And he appointed, according to the order of David
his father, the courses of the priests to their service,
and the Levites to their charges, to praise and
minister before the priests, as the duty of every day
required: the porters also by their courses at every
gate: for so had David the man of God commanded.
15
And they departed not from the commandment of
the king unto the priests and Levites concerning any
matter, or concerning the treasures. 16 Now all the
work of Solomon was prepared unto the day of the
foundation of the house of the LORD, and until it
was finished. So the house of the LORD was
perfected. 17 Then went Solomon to Eziongeber, and
to Eloth, at the sea side in the land of Edom. 18 And
Huram sent him by the hands of his servants ships,
and servants that had knowledge of the sea; and they
went with the servants of Solomon to Ophir, and took
thence four hundred and fifty talents of gold, and
brought them to king Solomon. (KJV)
The Queen of Sheba
Solomon took women from outside of Israel.
The selection of the wives of Solomon was to
represent the inclusion of Gentiles into the
Church, and the idolatry that Israel saw and
suffered was to represent the corruption of the
Church by these foreign wives who were the
Gentile churches. The worst of these was to be
the system corrupted from Rome.
1Kings 10:1-29 And when the queen of Sheba heard
of the fame of Solomon concerning the name of the
LORD, she came to prove him with hard questions. 2
And she came to Jerusalem with a very great train,
with camels that bare spices, and very much gold,
and precious stones: and when she was come to
Solomon, she communed with him of all that was in
her heart. 3 And Solomon told her all her questions:
there was not any thing hid from the king, which he
told her not. 4 And when the queen of Sheba had seen
all Solomon's wisdom, and the house that he had
built, 5 And the meat of his table, and the sitting of
his servants, and the attendance of his ministers, and
their apparel, and his cupbearers, and his ascent by
which he went up unto the house of the LORD; there
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was no more spirit in her. 6 And she said to the king,
It was a true report that I heard in mine own land of
thy acts and of thy wisdom. 7 Howbeit I believed not
the words, until I came, and mine eyes had seen it:
and, behold, the half was not told me: thy wisdom
and prosperity exceedeth the fame which I heard. 8
Happy are thy men, happy are these thy servants,
which stand continually before thee, and that hear thy
wisdom. 9 Blessed be the LORD thy God, which
delighted in thee, to set thee on the throne of Israel:
because the LORD loved Israel for ever, therefore
made he thee king, to do judgment and justice. 10 And
she gave the king an hundred and twenty talents of
gold, and of spices very great store, and precious
stones: there came no more such abundance of spices
as these which the queen of Sheba gave to king
Solomon. 11 And the navy also of Hiram, that brought
gold from Ophir, brought in from Ophir great plenty
of almug trees, and precious stones. 12 And the king
made of the almug trees pillars for the house of the
LORD, and for the king's house, harps also and
psalteries for singers: there came no such almug
trees, nor were seen unto this day. 13 And king
Solomon gave unto the queen of Sheba all her desire,
whatsoever she asked, beside that which Solomon
gave her of his royal bounty. So she turned and went
to her own country, she and her servants. 14 Now the
weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was
six hundred threescore and six talents of gold, 15
Beside that he had of the merchantmen, and of the
traffick of the spice merchants, and of all the kings of
Arabia, and of the governors of the country.
the place of the seat, and two lions stood beside the
stays. 20 And twelve lions stood there on the one side
and on the other upon the six steps: there was not the
like made in any kingdom. 21 And all king Solomon's
drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of
the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold;
none were of silver: it was nothing accounted of in
the days of Solomon. 22 For the king had at sea a navy
of Tharshish with the navy of Hiram: once in three
years came the navy of Tharshish, bringing gold, and
silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks. 23 So king
Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth for
riches and for wisdom. 24 And all the earth sought to
Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God had put in
his heart. 25 And they brought every man his present,
vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and garments,
and armour, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate year
by year. 26 And Solomon gathered together chariots
and horsemen: and he had a thousand and four
hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen,
whom he bestowed in the cities for chariots, and with
the king at Jerusalem. 27 And the king made silver to
be in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars made he to be
as the sycomore trees that are in the vale, for
abundance. 28 And Solomon had horses brought out
of Egypt, and linen yarn: the king's merchants
received the linen yarn at a price. 29 And a chariot
came up and went out of Egypt for six hundred
shekels of silver, and an horse for an hundred and
fifty: and so for all the kings of the Hittites, and for
the kings of Syria, did they bring them out by their
means. (KJV)
The significance here is that the King of Tyre is
often a name applied to Satan. The total weight
of gold that came in through trade was 666 six
hundred and sixty-six talents of gold, which is
the number of the Beast. It represents the
iniquity of the system of the Host and the
corruption of the system established under the
final phase, which represents the Church. It
pointed towards the corruption of the Church
system by wealth and trade and pointed to the
perversion of doctrine over the last phase of the
Church in the wilderness. Those who sought
wealth were corrupted in the Beast system.
Note: 666 is the value of the symbol of Isis of
the Egyptian Mysteries at SSS.
The names mentioned here show that the naval
forces of Tarshish, which were centred in Spain,
were the naval forces of the Ancient Sea Kings.
Solomon aligned with Hiram and they were
centred on the coast of Tyre and Sidon. This fact
also explains the YDNA K2 groups of the
Phoenicians in Lebanon, and also in Malta, and
among the modern Jews and Druze (see the
papers The Genetic Origin of the Nations (No.
265) and War of Hamon-Gog (No. 294)). We
now know that at this time they were trading
with South America and were bringing tobacco
and cocaine to Egypt. Forensic tests on the
mummies in Berlin and Britain confirm that
fact.
16
And king Solomon made two hundred targets of
beaten gold: six hundred shekels of gold went to one
target. 17 And he made three hundred shields of
beaten gold; three pound of gold went to one shield:
and the king put them in the house of the forest of
Lebanon. 18 Moreover the king made a great throne
of ivory, and overlaid it with the best gold. 19 The
throne had six steps, and the top of the throne was
round behind: and there were stays on either side on
Chronicles also record details of the Queen of
Sheba, and the blessings and wisdom of
Solomon.
2Chronicles 9:1-31 And when the queen of Sheba
heard of the fame of Solomon, she came to prove
Solomon with hard questions at Jerusalem, with a
very great company, and camels that bare spices, and
gold in abundance, and precious stones: and when
she was come to Solomon, she communed with him
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of all that was in her heart. 2 And Solomon told her
all her questions: and there was nothing hid from
Solomon which he told her not. 3 And when the
queen of Sheba had seen the wisdom of Solomon,
and the house that he had built, 4 And the meat of his
table, and the sitting of his servants, and the
attendance of his ministers, and their apparel; his
cupbearers also, and their apparel; and his ascent by
which he went up into the house of the LORD; there
was no more spirit in her. 5 And she said to the king,
It was a true report which I heard in mine own land of
thine acts, and of thy wisdom: 6 Howbeit I believed
not their words, until I came, and mine eyes had seen
it: and, behold, the one half of the greatness of thy
wisdom was not told me: for thou exceedest the fame
that I heard. 7 Happy are thy men, and happy are
these thy servants, which stand continually before
thee, and hear thy wisdom. 8 Blessed be the LORD
thy God, which delighted in thee to set thee on his
throne, to be king for the LORD thy God: because
thy God loved Israel, to establish them for ever,
therefore made he thee king over them, to do
judgment and justice. 9 And she gave the king an
hundred and twenty talents of gold, and of spices
great abundance, and precious stones: neither was
there any such spice as the queen of Sheba gave king
Solomon. 10 And the servants also of Huram, and the
servants of Solomon, which brought gold from Ophir,
brought algum trees and precious stones. 11 And the
king made of the algum trees terraces to the house of
the LORD, and to the king's palace, and harps and
psalteries for singers: and there were none such seen
before in the land of Judah. 12 And king Solomon
gave to the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatsoever
she asked, beside that which she had brought unto the
king. So she turned, and went away to her own land,
she and her servants. 13 Now the weight of gold that
came to Solomon in one year was six hundred and
threescore and six talents of gold; 14 Beside that
which chapmen and merchants brought. And all the
kings of Arabia and governors of the country brought
gold and silver to Solomon. 15 And king Solomon
made two hundred targets of beaten gold: six hundred
shekels of beaten gold went to one target. 16 And
three hundred shields made he of beaten gold: three
hundred shekels of gold went to one shield. And the
king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon.
17
Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory,
and overlaid it with pure gold. 18 And there were six
steps to the throne, with a footstool of gold, which
were fastened to the throne, and stays on each side of
the sitting place, and two lions standing by the stays:
19
And twelve lions stood there on the one side and
on the other upon the six steps. There was not the like
made in any kingdom. 20 And all the drinking vessels
of king Solomon were of gold, and all the vessels of
the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold:
none were of silver; it was not any thing accounted of
in the days of Solomon. 21 For the king's ships went to
Tarshish with the servants of Huram: every three
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years once came the ships of Tarshish bringing gold,
and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks. 22 And king
Solomon passed all the kings of the earth in riches
and wisdom. 23 And all the kings of the earth sought
the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom, that
God had put in his heart. 24 And they brought every
man his present, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold,
and raiment, harness, and spices, horses, and mules, a
rate year by year. 25 And Solomon had four thousand
stalls for horses and chariots, and twelve thousand
horsemen; whom he bestowed in the chariot cities,
and with the king at Jerusalem. 26 And he reigned
over all the kings from the river even unto the land of
the Philistines, and to the border of Egypt. 27 And the
king made silver in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar
trees made he as the sycomore trees that are in the
low plains in abundance. 28 And they brought unto
Solomon horses out of Egypt, and out of all lands. 29
Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, first and last,
are they not written in the book of Nathan the
prophet, and in the prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite,
and in the visions of Iddo the seer against Jeroboam
the son of Nebat? 30 And Solomon reigned in
Jerusalem over all Israel forty years. 31 And Solomon
slept with his fathers, and he was buried in the city of
David his father: and Rehoboam his son reigned in
his stead. (KJV)
In his old age Solomon turned into an idolater.
This was to be so at the end of the age in the
Church. Many were corrupted by false doctrine.
The symbolism was to reflect the Church in its
decadent phase.
1Kings 11:1-43 But king Solomon loved many
strange women, together with the daughter of
Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites,
Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites; 2 Of the nations
concerning which the LORD said unto the children
of Israel, Ye shall not go in to them, neither shall they
come in unto you: for surely they will turn away your
heart after their gods: Solomon clave unto these in
love. 3 And he had seven hundred wives, princesses,
and three hundred concubines: and his wives turned
away his heart. 4 For it came to pass, when Solomon
was old, that his wives turned away his heart after
other gods: and his heart was not perfect with the
LORD his God, as was the heart of David his father.
5
For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of
the Zidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of
the Ammonites. 6 And Solomon did evil in the sight
of the LORD, and went not fully after the LORD, as
did David his father. 7 Then did Solomon build an
high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, in
the hill that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the
abomination of the children of Ammon. 8 And
likewise did he for all his strange wives, which burnt
incense and sacrificed unto their gods. 9 And the
LORD was angry with Solomon, because his heart
was turned from the LORD God of Israel, which had
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appeared unto him twice, 10 And had commanded
him concerning this thing, that he should not go after
other gods: but he kept not that which the LORD
commanded. 11 Wherefore the LORD said unto
Solomon, Forasmuch as this is done of thee, and thou
hast not kept my covenant and my statutes, which I
have commanded thee, I will surely rend the kingdom
from thee, and will give it to thy servant. 12
Notwithstanding in thy days I will not do it for David
thy father's sake: but I will rend it out of the hand of
thy son. 13 Howbeit I will not rend away all the
kingdom; but will give one tribe to thy son for David
my servant's sake, and for Jerusalem's sake which I
have chosen.
Because of this idolatry God decided to deal
with Solomon through the adjunct lands. Thus
peace was removed from him.
14
And the LORD stirred up an adversary unto
Solomon, Hadad the Edomite: he was of the king's
seed in Edom. 15 For it came to pass, when David was
in Edom, and Joab the captain of the host was gone
up to bury the slain, after he had smitten every male
in Edom; 16 (For six months did Joab remain there
with all Israel, until he had cut off every male in
Edom:) 17 That Hadad fled, he and certain Edomites
of his father's servants with him, to go into Egypt;
Hadad being yet a little child. 18 And they arose out
of Midian, and came to Paran: and they took men
with them out of Paran, and they came to Egypt, unto
Pharaoh king of Egypt; which gave him an house,
and appointed him victuals, and gave him land. 19
And Hadad found great favour in the sight of
Pharaoh, so that he gave him to wife the sister of his
own wife, the sister of Tahpenes the queen. 20 And
the sister of Tahpenes bare him Genubath his son,
whom Tahpenes weaned in Pharaoh's house: and
Genubath was in Pharaoh's household among the
sons of Pharaoh. 21 And when Hadad heard in Egypt
that David slept with his fathers, and that Joab the
captain of the host was dead, Hadad said to Pharaoh,
Let me depart, that I may go to mine own country. 22
Then Pharaoh said unto him, But what hast thou
lacked with me, that, behold, thou seekest to go to
thine own country? And he answered, Nothing:
howbeit let me go in any wise. 23 And God stirred him
up another adversary, Rezon the son of Eliadah,
which fled from his lord Hadadezer king of Zobah: 24
And he gathered men unto him, and became captain
over a band, when David slew them of Zobah: and
they went to Damascus, and dwelt therein, and
reigned in Damascus. 25 And he was an adversary to
Israel all the days of Solomon, beside the mischief
that Hadad did: and he abhorred Israel, and reigned
over Syria. 26 And Jeroboam the son of Nebat, an
Ephrathite of Zereda, Solomon's servant, whose
mother's name was Zeruah, a widow woman, even he
lifted up his hand against the king. 27 And this was the
cause that he lifted up his hand against the king:
Solomon built Millo, and repaired the breaches of the
city of David his father. 28 And the man Jeroboam
was a mighty man of valour: and Solomon seeing the
young man that he was industrious, he made him
ruler over all the charge of the house of Joseph. 29
And it came to pass at that time when Jeroboam went
out of Jerusalem, that the prophet Ahijah the
Shilonite found him in the way; and he had clad
himself with a new garment; and they two were alone
in the field: 30 And Ahijah caught the new garment
that was on him, and rent it in twelve pieces: 31 And
he said to Jeroboam, Take thee ten pieces: for thus
saith the LORD, the God of Israel, Behold, I will
rend the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon, and
will give ten tribes to thee: 32 (But he shall have one
tribe for my servant David's sake, and for Jerusalem's
sake, the city which I have chosen out of all the tribes
of Israel:) 33 Because that they have forsaken me, and
have worshipped Ashtoreth the goddess of the
Zidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and
Milcom the god of the children of Ammon, and have
not walked in my ways, to do that which is right in
mine eyes, and to keep my statutes and my
judgments, as did David his father. 34 Howbeit I will
not take the whole kingdom out of his hand: but I will
make him prince all the days of his life for David my
servant's sake, whom I chose, because he kept my
commandments and my statutes: 35 But I will take the
kingdom out of his son's hand, and will give it unto
thee, even ten tribes. 36 And unto his son will I give
one tribe, that David my servant may have a light
alway before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have
chosen me to put my name there. 37 And I will take
thee, and thou shalt reign according to all that thy
soul desireth, and shalt be king over Israel. 38 And it
shall be, if thou wilt hearken unto all that I command
thee, and wilt walk in my ways, and do that is right in
my sight, to keep my statutes and my commandments,
as David my servant did; that I will be with thee, and
build thee a sure house, as I built for David, and will
give Israel unto thee. 39 And I will for this afflict the
seed of David, but not for ever. 40 Solomon sought
therefore to kill Jeroboam. And Jeroboam arose, and
fled into Egypt, unto Shishak king of Egypt, and was
in Egypt until the death of Solomon. 41 And the rest
of the acts of Solomon, and all that he did, and his
wisdom, are they not written in the book of the acts
of Solomon? 42 And the time that Solomon reigned in
Jerusalem over all Israel was forty years. 43 And
Solomon slept with his fathers, and was buried in the
city of David his father: and Rehoboam his son
reigned in his stead. (KJV)
2Chronicles 10:2 And it came to pass, when
Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who [was] in Egypt,
whither he had fled from the presence of Solomon the
king, heard [it], that Jeroboam returned out of Egypt.
Here we see how Jeroboam left for Egypt and
joined Sishak, or Shishonq I, the king of Libyan
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with and had destroyed the 21st Tanite Dynasty,
which allied with Solomon through his
marriage. This was to prove a great trouble for
Judah under Rehoboam when the Egyptians
supported Jeroboam on his return and imposed
tribute on Judah.
2Chronicles 12:9 So Shishak king of Egypt came up
against Jerusalem, and took away the treasures of the
house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king's
house; he took all: he carried away also the shields of
gold which Solomon had made.
The Egyptians removed the treasures of the
House of God put there by Solomon, and it was
no longer the glory it once had been.
From his writings, Solomon appears to have
repented in his old age and restored himself, but
he was to be punished. The story was to remain
as it was so that the Church would understand
what was to happen to it in later years. The last
phases of the Churches of God were to be
spiritually dead and corrupted by Binitarianism,
or Ditheism, and ultimately by Trinitarianism.
Some adopted the false calendar of post-Temple
rabbinical Judaism. They were poor, pitiable,
blind and naked, yet thought they were rich.
On the death of Solomon, God then proceeded
to allow the kingdom to be torn apart and the
northern tribes to be taken away from the
kingship in Judah.
2Chronicles 10:1-19 And Rehoboam went to
Shechem: for to Shechem were all Israel come to
make him king. 2 And it came to pass, when
Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who was in Egypt,
whither he fled from the presence of Solomon the
king, heard it, that Jeroboam returned out of Egypt. 3
And they sent and called him. So Jeroboam and all
Israel came and spake to Rehoboam, saying. 4 Thy
father made our yoke grievous: now therefore ease
thou somewhat the grievous servitude of thy father,
and his heavy yoke that he put upon us, and we will
serve thee. 5 And he said unto them, Come again
unto me after three days. And the people departed. 6
And king Rehoboam took counsel with the old men
that had stood before Solomon his father while he yet
lived, saying, What counsel give ye me to return
answer to this people? 7 And they spake unto him,
saying, If thou be kind to this people, and please
them, and speak good words to them, they will be thy
servants for ever. 8 But he forsook the counsel which
the old men gave him, and took counsel with the
young men that were brought up with him, that stood
before him. 9 And he said unto them, What advice
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give ye that we may return answer to this people,
which have spoken to me, saying, Ease somewhat the
yoke that thy father did put upon us? 10 And the
young men that were brought up with him spake unto
him, saying, Thus shalt thou answer the people that
spake unto thee, saying, Thy father made our yoke
heavy, but make thou it somewhat lighter for us; thus
shalt thou say unto them, My little finger shall be
thicker than my father's loins. 11 For whereas my
father put a heavy yoke upon you, I will put more to
your yoke: my father chastised you with whips, but I
will chastise you with scorpions. 12 So Jeroboam and
all the people came to Rehoboam on the third day, as
the king bade, saying, Come again to me on the third
day. 13 And the king answered them roughly; and king
Rehoboam forsook the counsel of the old men, 14
And answered them after the advice of the young
men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, but I
will add thereto: my father chastised you with whips,
but I will chastise you with scorpions. 15 So the king
hearkened not unto the people: for the cause was of
God, that the LORD might perform his word, which
he spake by the hand of Ahijah the Shilonite to
Jeroboam the son of Nebat. 16 And when all Israel
saw that the king would not hearken unto them, the
people answered the king, saying, What portion have
we in David? and we have none inheritance in the son
of Jesse: every man to your tents, O Israel: and now,
David, see to thine own house. So all Israel went to
their tents. 17 But as for the children of Israel that
dwelt in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over
them. 18 Then king Rehoboam sent Hadoram that was
over the tribute; and the children of Israel stoned him
with stones, that he died. But king Rehoboam made
speed to get him up to his chariot, to flee to
Jerusalem. 19 And Israel rebelled against the house of
David unto this day.
2Chronicles 13:6 Yet Jeroboam the son of Nebat, the
servant of Solomon the son of David, is risen up, and
hath rebelled against his lord.
2Chronicles 13:7 And there are gathered unto him
vain men, the children of Belial, and have
strengthened themselves against Rehoboam the son
of Solomon, when Rehoboam was young and
tenderhearted, and could not withstand them.
This act was to make a clear demarcation in the
period of the Rule of the Kings and the Plan of
God as outlined under the Key of David and
those given in the subsequent lineages. Israel
was later to be removed by the Assyrians, ca.
722 BCE, so it could be placed elsewhere in its
inheritance, as God had promised the blessings
to Abraham.
In 120 years, over the reigns of three kings, God
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had shown what would happen to the world and
to the Church of God to be established under the
Messiah.
Judah and part of Benjamin stayed with the
kingship and the North removed itself.
However, they only lasted three years before
they fell from grace.
2Chronicles 11:17 So they strengthened the kingdom
of Judah, and made Rehoboam the son of Solomon
strong, three years: for three years they walked in the
way of David and Solomon.
order to save the world from sin and destruction.
There were occasional restorations but often it
was sin and destruction (see the paper The Seven
Great Passovers of the Bible (No.107)). These
restorations were high points following
disobedience and captivity.
Appendix 1:The Dynasties of Egypt in the
Bible
Appendix 2: The Key of David Outline
Appendix 3: 282E The Mighty Men of Israel
Appendix 4: 282F The Temple Priesthood
Judah had to stay where it was so that the
Messiah would come to his place and destiny, in
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Appendix 1: The Dynasties of Egypt in the Bible
The Bible records that a change in the rulership of Egypt occurred and a Pharaoh arose that did not
know Joseph. This Pharaoh began to oppress the Israelites. The reason that oppression occurred is
that the period in which the Israelites prospered was in the reign of the Hyksos, or Shepherd kings,
who were an Asiatic and pastoral people that invaded Egypt and ruled it for a few hundred years.
The record of Manetho and later scribes employs a technique of comparison of evil aliens and good
native heroes, and so the Hyksos are demonised far more than they should have been. The place of
Israel in Egypt in the early days is no doubt because of the place of the Hyksos and Israel’s Asiatic
and Semitic origin. Their persecution followed the fall of the Hyksos, or they may have even been
part of the Hyksos rule. The Hyksos ruled for 104 years and Egypt was split in two. Upper Egypt
was ruled by the 17th Dynasty while at the same time the 16th Hyksos Dynasty ruled Lower Egypt.
This so-called division might even have originated when Joseph was made viceroy of Egypt and
the Israelites moved into Goshen and covered the 15th dynasty. The Bible story is obviously
supported by Egyptian history, yet historians deliberately try to mislocate the Bible so as to make it
into a myth.
The 18th Dynasty originated from the 17th and the founder was the result of a sibling marriage of
Seqenenre II and his sister. He in turn married his niece. Ahmose subjugated the Hyksos and
assumed total control. The 18th Dynasty is thus not a new Dynasty but the record of a Pharaoh who
did not know Joseph, enslaving the Hyksos and removing Semitic administration in Lower Egypt.
The Pharaohs
1785-1650 BC
13th-15th Dynasty
Second Intermediate Period
1650-1554 BC
16th Dynasty
Hyksos Domination from Lower Egypt
1650-1554 BC
17th Dynasty
Kamose Seqenenre II (Upper Egypt)
1554-1305 BC
18th Dynasty
Ahmose (Amosis I)
Amenhotep I (Amenophis I)
Tuthmosis I
Tuthmosis II
Hatshepsut
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Tuthmosis III
Amenhotep II
Tuthmosis IV
Amenhotep III
Amenhotep IV
Semenkare
Tutankhamen
Queen Ankhesenamun
Ay
Horemhab
1305-1196 BC
19th Dynasty
Rameses I
Seti I
Rameses II
Lord Ameni
Merenptah
Seti II
Siptah
Overview of the 18th Dynasty
Name
Manetho
Highest Year
Dates
Ahmose
Amosis
1550 – 1525
The start date for this Dynasty is held by some to be 1554. The dates by Baine and Malek in the
Atlas of Ancient Egypt (Time Life, 1994) say 1550-1307 (see below). The Wikipedia dates are
given as follows.
Amenhotep I
Amenophis
1525 - 1494
Thutmosis I
Tethmosis
1494 - 1482
Thutmosis II
Khebron
1482 - 1479
Thutmosis III
Misphragmuthosis
1479 - 1425
Hatshepsut
Amensis
1473 - 1458
Amenhotep II
1425 - 1401
Thutmosis IV
Tuthmosis
1401 - 1391
Amenhotep III
1391 - 1353
Amenhotep IV
Akhenaten
Semenekhkare
Tutankhamun
Ay
Horemheb
Armaios
13
1353 - 1335
1335 - 1334
1334 - 1325
1325 - 1321
1321 - 1307
(note Wikipedia says 1540-1307. The Wikipedia dates are thus quite out of sequence to the dates accepted by others).
Details of the Pharaohs involved
1785-1650 BC
13th-15th Dynasty
Second Intermediate Period
1650-1554 BC
16th Dynasty
Hyksos Domination from Lower Egypt
1650-1554 BC
17th Dynasty
Kamose Seqenenre II (Upper Egypt)
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The fourteenth king of the Theban Dynasty, ruling Egypt contemporaneously
with the Hyksos 15th and 16th Dynasties, was the son of Tao I and Queen
Tetisheri. When Tao received word from Apophis, ruler of the Hyksos,
capital in Avaris, that the hippopotami in the sacred pool at Thebes kept him
awake with their snoring, Tao regarded it as an insult. The hippopotami were
400 miles from Apophis’ sleeping chambers! Tao declared war but was soon
killed. His mummy shows evidence of blows by battle-axes, spears and
lances. His ribs, vertebrae and skull were fractured. His heir, Kamose,
assumed the throne and the war, and was victorious (cf.
http://www.touregypt.net). Kamose was the last of the 17th Dynasty but his
son (brother?) Ahmose commenced the 18th Dynasty, which was in effect
simply a consolidation of Egypt when the Hyksos were deposed. Thus the
enslaving of Israel was coincidental with the fall of the Hyksos. The most
logical explanation, when the later propaganda is discarded, is that the
administration of Egypt had been established by Joseph and this is the period
referred to as the rule of the Hyksos. They are recorded as levying tribute
over all Egypt. Such a proposition was rejected because it is assumed they
were a separate rule rather than an administration. Later denigration of the
Hyksos is now being seen as uninformed propaganda.
1554-1305 BC
1554-1525
18th Dynasty
Ahmose (Amosis I)
King Amosis asserts his parents were the children of the same mother and
father, a classical example of brother and sister marriage. The mother of
Amosis was 'Ahhotpe, and she was the wife of Sekenenre' Ta'o II. In all
probability, her mother Terisheri was the consort of Ta'o I, whose tomb, like
that of Ta'o II, had to be inspected in the reign of Ramesses IX and found
intact. Nothing much known about Ta'o I but it is thought that his Prenomen
was Senakhtenre'.
1528/7 BCE: Moses was born, prior to the death of Ahmosis and was named after him by his sister.
Based on the earlier chronology for the 18th Dynasty he would have been born in the reign of
Amenhotep I.
1525-1504 BCE
Amenhotep I (Amenophis I)
1525 BCE: The death of Ahmose/Ahmosis I, (some say 1527). The year was the Sabbath year of
the final cycle of the 49th Jubilee. It saw an end of the murder of the Israelite children in their
persecution. The New Kingdom, or the Empire experienced more than a century and a half of
unbroken prosperity. The orders for the extermination of the Israelites were probably motivated by
their being seen as part of the hated Hyksos. The orders were given by this king to establish the
dynasty.
“The son of Ahmose and Queen Ahmose Nefretiri, Amenhotep I was the second king of the 18th Dynasty. He may
have ascended to the throne at a relatively young age, for an elder brother had been designated as heir only about five
years earlier.”
It appears that Ahmosis’ eldest son died. We might say that this was a punishment for the death of
the Israelite children.
“Amenhotep evidently carried on many of the practices of his father, and his mother certainly played an important
part in his reign, acting as God's Wife of Amun. Amenhotep I may have been married to his sister, (Ahmose-)
Merytamun, who was a God's Wife of Amun, though there is apparently little documentation to substantiate this
relationship. Better known is this king's daughter, Satamun, who is known both from her coffin found in one of the
royal mummy caches, and from two statues at central and southern Karnak” (see the article by Jimmy Dunn
http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/amenhotep1.htm)
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1524 BCE
1504-1492
1492-1479
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49th Jubilee
Tuthmosis I
Tuthmosis II
1488 BCE: Moses turns 40 years of age and is exiled to Midian by Tuthmosis II, in his fourth year
of rule, after killing the guard
1479-1458 BCE
1473 BCE
Hatshepsut (Ma’atkare’) Queen Regent
Hatshepsut crowned herself Pharaoh.
Wikipedia gives some confusing comment regarding Hatshepsut.
Hatshepsut was the eldest daughter of Thutmose I and Queen Ahmose, the first king and queen of the Thutmosid
clan of the 18th Dynasty. Thutmose I and Ahmose are known to have had only one other child, a daughter
Akhbetneferu (Neferubity), who died in infancy. Thutmose I also married Mutnofret, possibly a daughter of
Ahmose I, and produced several half-brothers to Hatshepsut: Wadjmose, Amenose, Thutmose II, and possibly
Ramose, through that union. Both Wadjmose and Amenose were prepared to succeed their father, but neither lived
beyond adolescence. In childhood, Hatshepsut is believed to have been favored by the Temple of Karnak over her
two brothers—a view promoted by her own propaganda. She apparently had a loving relationship with both
parents, and produced a propaganda story in which her father Thutmose I supposedly named her as his direct heir
(see below).
Upon the death of her father in 1492 BC, she married Thutmose II and assumed the title of Great Royal Wife.
Thutmose II ruled for thirteen years, during which it has been traditionally believed that Hatshepsut exerted a
strong influence over him.
Thutmose II had one daughter with Hatshepsut, Neferure. Hatshepsut groomed Neferure as crown prince,
commissioning official portraits of her wearing the false beard and side lock of youth. Some scholars speculate
that this is evidence that Hatshepsut was grooming Neferure for the throne; others that she was merely planning
another Hatshepsut. Whatever her intentions were, they came to nothing as Neferure did not live into adulthood.
The Wikipedia article then gives the reign of Hatshepsut as being from 1503 BCE to 1482 BCE.
However, that seems to be based on early incorrect dates or confuses her marriage to Thutmose II
with Thutmose I. It says she died “in early February 1482 BC or 1483 BC”. It then also claims that
she had herself crowned pharaoh around 1473 BC, taking the throne name Maatkare.
Maatkare Hatshepsut or Hatchepsut (late 16th century BC – c. 1482 BC) was the fifth pharaoh of the
Eighteenth dynasty of Ancient Egypt. Hatshepsut is generally regarded by modern Egyptologists as one of the
most successful pharaohs, ruling longer than any female ruler of an indigenous dynasty. She was one of the most
prolific builders of ancient Egypt, commissioning hundreds of construction projects throughout both Upper and
Lower Egypt and under her reign Egypt's trade networks began to be rebuilt, after their disruption during the
Hyksos occupation of Egypt during the Second Intermediate Period. She is believed to have ruled from 1503 BC
to 1482 BC. Josephus writes that she reigned 21 years and 9 months, while Africanus states her reign lasted 22
years; both of whom were quoting Manetho. Hatshepsut is regarded variously as the earliest known queen regnant
in history, as the first known female to take the title King of Upper and Lower Egypt, and the first great woman in
recorded history.
Lesser sheds more light on the matter as follows. She married Thutmose II about a year before the
death of Thutmose I.
“The duration of the reign of Thutmosis II is given by Beckerath (1997) with [as] 12 - 14 years and by Grimm and
Schoske (1999) with [as] only 3 years - then he was buried. Up to now no tomb in the Valley of Kings could be
assigned to him with certainty but some evidence points to tomb KV42. The fact that KV42 is [a] simple tomb in
which a sarcophagi without inscriptions was found indicates that the king died rather surprisingly and neither a
suitable tomb nor a sarcophagi of an appropriate high quality was available.
Based on the aforementioned calculations about her age at her marriage and about the duration of the reign of
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Thutmosis II Hatshepsut might have been between 15 (after Grimm and Schoske) and 30 years (after Beckerath)
old at the time her husband died.
Since there is some evidence that Thutmosis I still reigned for at least 1 year after her marriage with Thutmosis II
Hatshepsut could have been quite 15 years - or only little older - at least if her husband Thutmosis II had reigned
only for about 3 years. Therefore, it is quite possible that her mother Ah-mose exercised the regency for some
time, before Hatshepsut after the death of Ah-mose - in agreement with the family tradition of the Ahmosids and
the Egyptian history (the exercise of the regency for an under-age king is testified since the Old Kingdom) exercised the regency for the under-age Thutmosis III.” (Dr Karl Lesser http://www.maat-kara.de/english/maat_ka_ra/regentin.htm)
These next of kin marriages resulted in severe inbreeding in the Egyptian aristocracy. The practice
was common in those days. The names given to both males and females were variations on the
name Mose or Mosis, and the root origin of the name Moses (or Moshe) is obvious.
www.touregypt.net summaries the matters as follows.
Hatshepsut, the fifth ruler of the 18th Dynasty, was the daughter of Thutmose I and Queen Ahmose. As was
common in royal families, she married her half-brother, Thutmose II, who had a son, Thutmose III, by a minor
wife. When Thutmose II died in 1479 B.C. his son, Thutmose III, was appointed heir. However, Hatshepsut was
appointed regent due to the boy's young age. They ruled jointly until 1473 when she declared herself pharaoh.
Dressed in men’s attire, Hatshepsut administered affairs of the nation, with the full support of the high priest of
Amun, Hapuseneb and other officials. When she built her magnificent temple at Deir el Bahari in Thebes she made
reliefs of her divine birth as the daughter of Amun. Hatshepsut disappeared in 1458 B.C. when Thutmose III,
wishing to reclaim the throne, led a revolt. Thutmose had her shrines, statues and reliefs mutilated.
This was the general view regarding the mutilations of her reliefs but we now question this view.
After her death, many of Hatshepsut's monuments and depictions were subsequently defaced or destroyed,
including those in her famous mortuary temple complex at Deir el-Bahri. These have traditionally been interpreted
to be evidence of acts of damnatio memoriae (condemning a person by erasing him or her from recorded
existence) by Thutmose III. However, recent research by scholars such as that of Charles Nims and Peter Dorman
have re-examined these erasures and found that the acts which could be dated occurred after the forty-second year
of Thutmose's reign. This casts serious doubt upon the popular theory that Thutmose III ordered their destruction
in a fit of vengeful rage shortly after his accession. Rather, it is more widely accepted today that Thutmose III may
have simply decided to erase the memory of Hatshepsut's from the historical records because under Egypt's deeply
conservative and hierarchical political system, only men were supposed to rule the state while women were
expected to remain loyal to their husbands and nourish their households. Indeed, prior to Hatshepsut's reign only
two other female Egyptian Pharaohs were known to exist: Nitocris and Sobekneferu. Unlike Hatshepsut however,
both these queens enjoyed a very brief reign (Wikipedia).
1479-1425
Tuthmosis III
“The successor of Thutmosis II was his son, Thutmosis III, who was born by his second wife, Isis. How old Thutmosis
III had been at the time his father died and he ascended to the throne (in year 1479 B.C. due to Beckerath, 1997) is not
known. However he ruled for about 54 years - including the regency of Hatshepsut - and his mummy is not that of a
very old man. Thus, he was most likely an infant and in each case not older than 10 years. According to an inscription
dated to year 42 of his reign he was 6 years old when he was chosen by an oracle of Amun to become king. This
inscription surely was an attempt to legitimize his reign since no male heir to the throne came from the marriage of his
father with Hatshepsut and from his mother's side he was not of royal descent - however the inscription can be used as
a rough reference to his age at his accession” (Lesser ibid).
1448/7 BCE: Within this chronology, the Exodus occurred ten years after the death of Hatshepsut.
As regent with her stepson and nephew she was a great builder and developer of Egypt. Her seizure
of the throne in 1473 led to her eventual overthrow and disappearance in 1458.
Menkheperre Thutmose III (also written as Tuthmosis III or Thothmes III; called Manahpi(r)ya in the Amarna
letters) (d. 1425 BC), was the sixth Pharaoh of Egypt in the Eighteenth Dynasty, and is regarded as the greatest of
Egypt's pharaohs. He ruled from 1479 BC to 1425 BC, according to the Middle Chronology of Ancient Egypt.
Older publications in the 1960's and 1970's have suggested that he ruled Egypt from 1504 BC to 1450 BC but this
was based partly on the outdated and unsustainable view of a 35 Year reign for Thutmose IV. However, it is
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known that Manetho gives Thutmose IV a reign of only 9 Years and 8 Months in his Epitome while this king's
Highest dated Year is only his Year 8. Finally, Thutmose IV's monuments are comparatively small and minor
compared to those of his son Amenhotep III, who enjoyed a reign of 38 Years. Hence, Egyptologists today ascribe
Thutmose IV a reign of only c.10 Years and have dated Thutmose III's accession at 1479 BC instead.
Thutmose was very short, barely five feet (1.5m) tall, a fact not known to later historians until the discovery of his
mummy in 1881.
1427- 1401
Amenhotep II
As usual, different resources provide different time frames for Amenhotep II's reign. The Chronicle
of the Pharaohs by Peter A. Clayton gives his reign lasting from 1453 until 1419 BCE, which
makes him the Pharaoh of the Exodus. Thus would accord with the Karnak Stele record in relation
to the Exodus but it may be totally unrelated. The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt provides a
reign between 1427 until 1400 BCE. Wikipedia has 1425 and Baines and Malek have 1427-1401.
Thus his father Thutmose III was the Pharaoh of the Exodus on these later dates for Thutmoses III.
Amenhotep II was the son of Thutmose III and a minor wife, Hatshepsut-Meryetre. Amenhotep was certainly the
junior co-regent to his father for 2 Years and 4 Months according to contemporary historical records since his
accession date was "IV Akhet day 1" as noted in the Semna stela of Usersatet, the serving King's son(ie: viceroy)
of Kush under Amenhotep II, while Tuthmose III is recorded to have died on III Peret day 30 in the Tomb
Biography of Amenemheb (c.f. Wikipedia).
The fact that he was the son of Pharaoh by a minor wife may well accord with the Bible record that
the firstborn son of the pharaoh of the Exodus (Thutmoses III) was killed with the other firstborn of
Egypt.
1424 BCE: 51st Jubilee
Amenhotep II was the son of Thutmose III and a minor wife, Hatshepsut-Meryetre. Amenhotep was certainly the
junior co-regent to his father for 2 Years and 4 Months according to contemporary historical records since his
accession date was "IV Akhet day 1" as noted in the Semna stela of Usersatet, the serving King's son(ie: viceroy)
of Kush under Amenhotep II, while Tuthmose III is recorded to have died on III Peret day 30 in the Tomb
Biography of Amenemheb. Peter Der Manuelian in his 1987 book "Studies in the Reign of Amenophis II," gives
this translation of the text in Usersatet's stela: "Year 23, IV Akhet [day] 1, the day of the Festival of the king's
accession" (p.21). Amenhotep was faced with a major rebellion in Syria by the vassal state of Naharin in his Year
3 almost immediately after the death of his father and dispatched his Army to the Levant to suppress it. The king
was well known for his physical prowess and is said to have singlehandedly killed 7 rebel Princes at Takhsy. After
capturing Kadesh and thus successfully terminating his first Syrian campaign, the king ordered the bodies of the
seven princes to be hung upside down on the prow of his ship--a common punishment for rebel leaders in
Pharaonic Egypt. Upon reaching Thebes all but one of the princes were mounted on the city walls. The other was
taken to the often rebellious territory of Nubia and hung on the city wall of Napata, as an example of the
consequence of rising against Pharaoh and to demoralise any Nubian opponents of Egyptian authority there.
Amenhotep II was evidently successful in his endeavour since no mention of any rebellion was recorded in Nubia
under his reign--unlike the situation with his successor Thutmose IV. Amenhotep also embarked on his second and
third Syrian campaigns in Year 7 and 9 of his reign. Both rebellions were caused by a revolt in the Syrian regions
of the Egyptian Empire, which was likely instigated by Egypt's chief Near Eastern rival, Mitanni. The Year 9 battle
occurred on the heights of Niy and resulted in Egypt's loss off control over the entire area between the rivers
Orontes and Euphrates despite the recorded Egyptian pillaging in Retenu and the capture of 3,600 Apiru prisonersof-war. After this campaign, no further conflicts developed between Mitanni and Egypt, and an informal peace was
maintained between Amenhotep and the king of Mitanni. Thereafter, Amenhotep concentrated on domestic matters
but maintained Egypt's imperial control over Canaan and Egypt's overall prosperity.
1408 BCE Israel’s entry into the Promised Land and the subjugation of the Canaanites in the 16th
year of the 52nd Jubilee following on from the death of Moses.
1401-1391 BCE
Tuthmosis IV (Cult of Aten emerges and Egypt copies Israelite
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monotheism.)
1391-1353 BCE
Amenhotep III
1353-1335
Amenhotep IV “Akhenaten” (Monotheist heresy emerges full
blown.)
1335-1334
Semenkare (Queen Nefertiti?)
1334-1325
Tutankhamen
?
Queen Ankhesenamun
Ankhesenamun- She married Tutankhamun at the age of thirteen. King Tutankhamun was married when he was very
young, probably little more than ten years old. The reason for this was that the Egyptian king was expected to have a
wife (sometimes more than one) who would have helped him to carry out some of the official religious duties of his
office. Tutankhamun married Ankhesenaten, one of the daughters of his father Akhenaten and his stepmother Queen
Nefertiti, so she was his half-sister! She was a little older than Tutankhamun himself. Later, Ankhesenaten changed her
name to Ankhesenamun, "She lives (ankhes) for (en) the god Amun (amun)". She was originally called
Ankhesenpa'aten and she was born in 'Amarna Period probably in the city Akhetaten. During their marriage, she gave
birth to two premature children. It’s possible the children died because of close blood relations.
1323-1319
1319-1307/5
1305-1196 BC
1305-1290
19th Dynasty
Ay
Horemhab
Rameses I
“Originally called Paramessu, he was of non-royal birth, born into a noble family from the Nile delta region,
perhaps near the former Hyksos capital of Avaris. He was a career soldier, originally the chief of the archers (a
position he inherited from his father, Seti), and ultimately general of the armies. He found favor with Horemheb,
the last pharaoh of the tumultuous Eighteenth dynasty, who appointed Ramesses as his vizier. He also served as the
High Priest of Amun – as such, he would have played an important role in the restoration of the old religion
following the Amarna heresy of a generation earlier, under Akhenaten.
Horemheb himself had been a nobleman from outside the immediate royal family, who rose through the ranks of
the Egyptian army to serve as royal advisor and, ultimately, Pharaoh. Having no son of his own to continue his
own lineage, Horemheb chose Ramesses to be his heir in the final years of his reign presumably because Ramesses
I was both an able administrator and had a son and a grandson (the future Ramesses II) to succeed him and avoid
any succession difficulties.
Upon his accession, Ramesses took a prenomen, or royal name, which is written in Egyptian hieroglyphs to the
right. When transliterated, the name is mn-pḥty-r‘ , which is usually interpreted as Menpehtyre, meaning
"Established by the strength of Ra". However, he is better known by his nomen, or personal name. This is
transliterated as r‘-ms-sw, and is usually realised as Ramessu or Ramesses, meaning 'Ra bore him'. Already an old
man when he was crowned, Ramesses appointed his son, the later pharaoh Seti I, to serve as his co-regent. Seti
undertook several military operations during this time– in particular, an attempt to recoup Egypt's lost possessions
in Syria. Ramesses appears to have taken charge of domestic matters: most memorably, he completed the second
pylon
at
Karnak
Temple,
begun
under
Horemheb
(cf.
the
article
in
Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramses_I)
1290-1279 BCE
Seti I
In the film The Ten Commandments, the Pharaoh Seti I was assumed to be the Pharaoh under
which Moses was a General of Egypt, and his son Rameses II was portrayed as the Pharaoh of the
Exodus. Seti was already the father of Rameses II when Horemheb appointed him his successor as
Pharaoh. He was an able administrator. The Bible texts and dates however make this pharaoh, on
the current time frames as accepted, an impossible candidate as Moses was already dead and Israel
occupied before this pharaoh ascended the throne. The reason for this idea was because the
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Egyptologists decided that the making of bricks as major construction materials was prominent in
the Ramesside period. The Bible however places the Exodus 480 years before the Temple was
started in the Fourth year of Solomon and that makes the date 1448/7 BCE. The Bible says that the
Israelites built the city of Rameses and thus it is assumed it was this Rameses’ dynasty that was
involved, as they built Pi-Ramesse. However, the name Rameses itself has also been found
inscribed on a burial tomb painting from Pharaoh Amenhotep III, who ruled almost a century
before Rameses II.
1279-1213 BCE
Rameses II
Lord Ameni
Merenptah
Seti II
Siptah
The Dynasty of Solomon’s Wife
Twenty-First Dynasty
Name
Smendes
Amenemnisu
Psusennes I
Amenemopet
Osorkon the Elder
Siamun
Psusennes II
Dates
1069 BC - 1043
1043 BC - 1039
1039 BC - 990
992 BC - 983
983 BC - 977
977 BC - 958
958 BC - 943C
After the reign of Ramesses III, there was a long, slow decline of royal power in Egypt
The 22nd Dynasty: The conquerors of Israel and Judah.
Twenty-Second Dynasty
The Twenty-second dynasty of Egypt were a series of Meshwesh Libyans kings who ruled from 945 BC or
943 BC until 720 BC. They had settled in Egypt since the Twentieth Dynasty. Manetho states that the
dynasty originated at Bubastis, but the kings almost certainly ruled from Tanis, which was their capital and
the city where their tombs have been excavated. This dynasty is often considered part of the Third
Intermediate Period.
Name
Shoshenq I
Comments
He is said to be the Biblical Shishaq
922 – 887 BC
Osorkon I
Shoshenq II
enjoyed an independent reign of around 2 years at
Tanis according to Von Beckerath
887 – 885 BC
885 – 872 BC
Takelot I
Harsiese A
Dates
943 – 922 BC
a separate king at Thebes who ruled during
Osorkon II and Takelot I's reign.
880 – 860 BC
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Osorkon II
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helped Israel defeat Shalmaneser III of Assyria
at the Battle of Qarqar in 853 BC.
837 – 798 BC
Shoshenq III
Shoshenq
(IV)"quartus"
not to be confused with Shoshenq VI – the original
Shoshenq IV in pre-1993 books and journal articles
Pami
buried two Apis Bulls in his reign. Only king whose
deeds were preserved on an Annal document
798 – 785 BC
785 – 778 BC
778 – 740 BC
Shoshenq V
Osorkon IV
872 – 837 BC
a separate king who ruled a fragmented Delta
Region with Tefnakhte of Sais and Iuput II of Leontopolis
740 – 720 BC
Another king who belongs to this group is Tutkheperre Shoshenq, whose precise position in this dynasty is
currently uncertain. The so-called Twenty-third dynasty was an offshoot of this dynasty based in Upper
Egypt. All of its kings reigned in Middle and Upper Egypt including the Western Desert Oases where a
hieratic donation stela dated to the 13th regnal year of Takelot III has been found.0 (cf Wikipedia).
Appendix 2: Outline Timetable for the Key of David
1974 BCE: 40th Jubilee from the closure of Eden. Abraham is approximately 22 years old. He
reached manhood in the Sixth year of the 39th Jubilee.
1785-1650 BC E
13th-15th Dynasty
Second Intermediate Period
1650-1554 BC E
16th Dynasty
Hyksos Domination from Lower Egypt
1650-1554 BCE
17th Dynasty
Kamose Seqenenre II (Upper Egypt)
1554-1305 BC E
1554-1525 BCE
18th Dynasty
(Hyksos overthrown)
Ahmose (Amosis I)
1528/7 BCE
1525-1504 BCE
1525 BCE
1524 BCE
1504-1492 BCE
1492-1479 BCE
1488 BCE
Moses was born prior to the death of Ahmosis, and was named after him by
his sister.
Amenhotep I (Amenophis I)
The death of Ahmose/Ahmosis I (some say 1527). The year was the Sabbath
year of the final cycle of the 49th Jubilee. It saw an end of the murder of the
Israelites’ children in their persecution. The New Kingdom or the Empire
experienced more than a century and a half of unbroken prosperity. The
orders for the extermination of the Israelites were probably motivated by
their being seen as part of the hated Hyksos. The orders were given by this
king to establish the dynasty.
49th Jubilee
Tuthmosis I
Tuthmosis II
Moses turns 40 years of age and is exiled to Midian by Tuthmosis II, in his
fourth year of rule, after killing the guard. Symbolically represents end of
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1479-1458 BCE
1473 BCE
1479-1425 BCE
1448/7 BCE
1427-1401 BCE
1424 BCE
1408 BCE
1401-1391 BCE
1391-1353 BCE
1353-1335 BC
1335-1334 BCE
1334-1325 BCE
?
1323-1319 BCE
1319-1307/5
BCE
1305-1196 BCE
1305-1290
1290-1279 BCE
1279-1213 BCE
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first age. (Phase one of the Key of David begins.)
Hatshepsut (Ma’atkare’) Queen Regent
Hatshepsut crowned herself Pharaoh.
Tuthmosis III
Thus, within this chronology, the Exodus occurred ten years after the death
of Hatshepsut. As regent with her stepson and nephew she was a great
builder and developer of Egypt. Her seizure of the throne in 1473 led to her
eventual overthrow and disappearance in 1458.
Amenhotep II
The fact that he was the son of Pharaoh by a minor wife may well accord
with the Bible record that the first-born son of the Pharaoh of the Exodus
(Thutmoses III) was killed with the other first-born of Egypt.
51st Jubilee
Israel’s entry into the Promised Land and the subjugation of the Canaanites
in the 16th year of the 52nd Jubilee following on from the death of Moses.
Tuthmosis IV (Cult of Aten emerges and Egypt copies Israelite monotheism.)
Amenhotep III
Amenhotep IV “Akhenaten” Monotheist heresy emerges full blown.
Semenkare (Queen Nefertiti?)
Tutankhamen
Queen Ankhesenamun
Ay
Horemhab
19th Dynasty
Rameses I
Seti I
Rameses II
Lord Ameni
Merenptah
Seti II
Siptah
1224 BCE
1074 BCE
1054 BCE
1053/2 BCE
1024 BCE
1012 BCE
1005 BCE
974 BCE
972 BCE
968/7 BCE
948 BCE
55th Jubilee
58th Jubilee
Fall of Troy and the Western Hittites of Wilusia. Ripathian Celts move to
Britain and are joined by elements of the Tuathan De Danaan from Ireland
and subjugate Magogites in Britain.
End of the period of the rule of the 12 Judges with Eli and Samuel. Rule of
the Kings begins with the reign of Saul.
59th Jubilee
Rule of David begins. He reigns seven years at Hebron.
David enters Jerusalem. Exact halfway point in the creation, 3000 years from
Adam. Melchisedek gives way to Levi in Jerusalem for 20 Jubilees or 1000
years until the birth of Christ as High Priest of the order of Melchisedek.
60th Jubilee from the closure of Eden. (Halfway point in the age of Satan.)
David hands over the Solomon. (Phase one Complete)
Temple commenced in the Fourth year of Solomon.
The Temple and the Houses of the King and the House of the Forest of
Lebanon are finished.
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932 BCE
932-924 BCE
924 BCE
Table 3
724 BCE
722 BCE
722 BCE
605 BCE
598/7 BCE
594 BCE
587
574 BCE
539 BCE
538/7 BCE
530-522 BCE
525 BCE
524 BCE
522 BCE
521 BCE
516 BCE
486 BCE
465
424 BCE
424 BCE
423 BCE
418 BCE
404 BCE
398 BCE
385 BCE
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Solomon’s reign ends. (Phase two of the Key of David is complete.)
Division of the Kingdom due to Solomon’s idolatry; and idolatry enters the
Northern tribes.
61st Jubilee: 1000 years or 20 Jubilees to the declaration of the Acceptable
Year of the Lord by Messiah in 27 CE.
65th Jubilee: Siege of Samaria is undertaken to remove Israel from its lands
from the Sabbath Year, the Jubilee and 723 BCE or Year One of the New
Jubilee. 250 years from the Jubilee of David in Jerusalem and the handover
to Solomon.
Sargon II destroys Samaria after a three-year siege and the death of
Shalmaneser V.
Israel was taken captive in three stages: Reuben, Gad and half of Manasseh
in east Jordan under Pul or Tiglath-Pileser III. Then they were followed into
Media by the west Israelite tribes under Sargon II, who had also destroyed
the Hittites (Hatti or Kalti) in northern Syria, the Chaldeans in Urartu. Judah
followed later. (Phase three of the Key of David.)
Battle of Carchemish. Nebuchadnezzar defeats Egypt.
Jehoiakin’s captivity (2 WeAdar or 14/15 March 597). (Phase four of the
Key of David.)
Ezekiel’s Vision (30th year) (1st Scriptural Witness).
Fall of Jerusalem. (Phase five of the Key of David.)
Judah sent into captivity for breaking the land Sabbaths and the calendar.
(Phase six)
68th Jubilee Year
Conquest of Babylon by Cyrus and Darius the Mede, son of Astyages (called
Xerxes by Daniel).
Edict of Cyrus and return of the exiles to Palestine but not to Jerusalem
(exact date uncertain).
Reign of Cambyses.
Cambyses’ occupation of Egypt (Prophecy of Pharaoh’s Broken Arms
complete in its first phase (see paper Prophecy of Pharaoh’s Broken Arms
(No. 36); see also Table 5 Outline Table of the Age (No. 272)).
69th Jubilee
Reign of the Magi.
Darius I
Prophecy of the seventy years expires (Jer. 25:8-14; Dan. ch. 9). Jerusalem
could not have been inhabited until this date. Scripture cannot be broken.
Xerxes I. Letter written to him no reply recorded (Ezra 4:6).
Artaxerxes I (real name Cyrus also called Macrocheir or Longimanus). Stops
construction of the Temple and all construction ceases until the reign of
Darius the Persian (Ezra 4:7-24).
71st Jubilee
Xerxes II (no biblical record).
Darius II issues decree to commence construction in 422.
Seventy Weeks of Years commences in the first year of the 72nd Jubilee.
Construction of the Temple completed in sixth year of Darius in 3 Adar.
Artaxerxes II
Provisioning decree issued for the return of Ezra (Ezra 7:1-26).
Second decree of Artaxerxes II. Nehemiah is made governor of Judea (385-
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375/4 BCE
374/3 BCE
323/1 BCE
27 CE
30 CE
62/3 CE
70 CE
73CE
77 CE
590-1850 CE
1799
1916-1948
1916-1996
1939-1945
1977
1987
1997
1998-2005
2006-2012
2012
2015
2019-2027
2027
2028
2028-2077
2028-3027
3015
3027
3128
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372). Walls of Jerusalem are reconstructed (Neh. 5:14).
First seven weeks of years of the first anointed one of Daniel 9:25.
Jubilee year and the Reading of the Law. (2nd Scriptural Witness)
Ezra dies in the same year as Alexander the Great (Seder Olam Rabbah 30).
Canon of the Bible closed. (Phase seven of the Key of David is complete.)
Messiah announces the 80th Jubilee as the Acceptable Year of the Lord
and commences the New Testament Witness as Phase eight of the Key of
David.
Sacrifice of Christ and receipt of the Holy Spirit. Commences the Forty
Jubilees in the Wilderness for the Church.
End of the 62 weeks of years and the effective change of the tithe system to
Mechisedek. Martyrdom of James brother of Christ, first bishop of
Jerusalem.
End of the Seventy Weeks of Years and the destruction of the Temple.
Fall of Judea and the Masada.
81st Jubilee.
1260 years of the Persecution of the Church.
2520 years of “seven times” from Israel’s captivity. All Israel settled into the
birthright lands.
Establishment of the Jewish homeland.
End of the prophecy of Pharaoh’s Broken Arms in its second phase. (Phase
eight ends 1996.)
Empire of the Beast and the Second Antichrist try to destroy the Church and
the nation of Judah in the Holocaust.
119th Jubilee, start of the end. (Phase nine begins.)
Measuring the Temple commences. See the paper Measuring the Temple
(No. 137)
End of the Times of the Gentiles and the Last Thirty Years of the Mourning
for Moses.
Reading of the Law established as the end two periods of witness.
Sanctification of the Nations commences
(see paper Sanctification of the Nations (No. 77).)
Gospel published in all nations. Third reading of the Law. Commencement
of the period of the Dedication of the Altar for the restoration.
Year of the proclamation of the King.
Subjugation of the Nations in the Return of the King.
120th Jubilee (Phase nine ends).
Millennium begins. The physical Temple begins and the administration is
constructed and housed (Phase ten of the Key of David.)
Planet is restored and the Laws of God are enforced.
The Millennium as the Sabbath Rest of Jesus Christ is undertaken. The
Fourth Temple period is underway.
Satan is released again and the final Wars of the End begin. Jerusalem is
attacked.
140th Jubilee: the Second Resurrection of the Dead. Phase ten reaches
completion in the Great White Throne Judgment.
The City of God descends. Beginning of the New Heaven and Earth.