Wednesday Bible Study: All the gold in Fort Knox

Chapter 22 is not derived in any way from the Deuteronomic history -- which is now at the beginning of  the Book of Kings, in which David dies and Solomon becomes king. However, while in Kings David does designate Solomon to be us successor, there is none of this discussion about the Temple, or preparations for it. We only start to learn about the physical nature of the Temple when Solomon starts to build it, after David ' s death.  The idea that God doesn ' t want David to build the Temple because he has shed too much blood seems quite hypocritical since God for the most part told him to do it, and supported his military adventures and genocidal campaigns, as he has with the previous leaders of the Israelites. But this does seem to be a signal that the days of national militancy and conquest are coming to an end, and Solomon is to establish a more peaceable kingdom. As usual, the Chronicler skips over a lot of material from the Deuteronomic history that would be embarrassing to David. There is also a lot of intrigue and violence around the succession that gets skipped over here -- this is on the whole a much more pacifist story than was told in Samuel and Kings.The amount of gold David gives to Solomon to build the Temple comes to 3.4 million kilograms, which is about as much as there is in Fort Knox. Seems kind of unlikely. 22 Then David said, “The house of theLord God is to be here, and also the altar of burnt offering for Israel. ”Preparations...
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