Wednesday Bible Study: More selective plagiarism

2 Chronicles 1 borrows selectively from 1 Kings 3. Specifically, Solomon ' s vision at Gibeon appears in both. However, in the Book of Kings, before he makes the sacrifice at Gibeon, he " takes " Pharaoh ' s daughter. Then, in Kings, after the vision, we get the story of Solomon proposing to split the baby in half, which was claimed by two " harlots. " Here, instead, we have Solomon gathering up a lot of horses and other expensive stuff. I can only speculate about the reason for these omissions, although as I have said before the Chronicler seems to want to clean up David and Solomon ' s act. Solomon ' s 700 wives and 300 concubines don ' t get mentioned, and the baby splitting story, if you think about it, is ridiculous.1 Solomon son of David established himself firmly over his kingdom, for theLord his God was with him and made him exceedingly great.2 Then Solomon spoke to all Israel —to the commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds, to the judges and to all the leaders in Israel, the heads of families—3 and Solomon and the whole assembly went to the high place at Gibeon, for God ’s tent of meeting was there, which Moses theLord’s servant had made in the wilderness.4 Now David had brought up the ark of God from Kiriath Jearim to the place he had prepared for it, because he had pitched a tent for it in Jerusalem.5 But the bronze altar that Bezalel son of Uri, the son of Hur, had made was in Gibeon in front of the tabernacle of theLord...
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