8/11/2023 0 Comments Journey meaning![]() ![]() After Solomon’s death, when his son Rehoboam foolishly refused to lighten that burden, but vowed to make it even heavier, the northern part of the kingdom rebelled, seceded, and set up its own separate kingdom. Supporting this lavish court put a heavy financial burden on the people. Solomon built up a vast and very expensive royal court, including “seven hundred wives of royal birth and three hundred concubines” (1 Kings 11:3). You can read all about it in 1 Kings 10–12. ![]() In fact, it was Solomon’s lavish reign that led to the breakup and decline of the nation. His son Solomon’s lavish reign was also a distant memory. King David’s spectacular military conquests, which enlarged the borders of the nation to its widest extent, were now a matter of history. To understand the deeper meaning of this story, we need to know its background in the Bible narrative.īy the time of Elijah’s and Elisha’s prophetic careers, the glory days of the nation of Israel were already behind it. ![]() But mostly, we’ll look more deeply at the text of the story itself, and sleuth out a few of the spiritual insights it contains. We’ll draw on the method of Bible interpretation offered by Emanuel Swedenborg (1688–1772), and on various commentaries inspired by that method, without actually quoting from them. In this second (and final) article in response to Adom’s question, we’ll dig deeper, and look at the spiritual significance of this story for our Christian walk. In that article, we drew out a few of the lessons in that Bible story that are plain for anyone to see. The previous article, “ What Can We Learn from the Story of Elijah and Elisha?” responded to this Spiritual Conundrum submitted to Spiritual Insights for Everyday Life by a reader named Adom Ameyaw:Ĭan you explain and give the significance 2 Kings 2:1–18 in the life of a Christian? ![]()
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