1.Kings
Last week we learned about King Solomon who was one of David's sons. Solomon asked God for wisdom, which pleased God. As you learned he built the temple for God and became very wealthy. But his problems started when he started disobeying God and stopped following the Covenant. He married almost 1,000 women and started worshiping their false gods. Things ended badly for Solomon. But not as bad as they would become for the rest of Israel.
If you remember back to the stories of David and his brothers, Jacob had 12 brothers including David. These 12 brothers and their descendants were the leaders of the 12 tribes of Israel. Then David became king after Saul and David's son Solomon followed him. During David's & Solomon's reigns the 12 tribes kept more or less to themselves in spite of wars etc. But due to Solomon's disobedience, God divided the whole nation into 2 separate nations, 10/12 tribes made up Israel in the north and 2/12 tribes made up Judah in the south. This is where the reigns of many different kings began. Almost all of these kings were terrible leaders, did not follow God's covenant, worshipped false gods, fought against each other and even offered children as sacrifices to their false gods.
The reigns of the terrible kings lasted for many many years.
Watch the videos on the right for this part of our Old Testament Story.
