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What were the failures of King Solomon?

      

Describe the failures of King Solomon.

  

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Maurice
(i) He introduced forced labour to carry out his building programmes.

(ii) He gave an area of Israel to the king of Tyre to pay off his debts.

(iii) He had a large army and trusted in chariots and political alliances.

(iv) He relied on political alliances through royal marriages instead of trusting in God.

(v) He committed murder by killing his half brother, Adonijah.

(vi) He disobeyed his father's instructions to obey God only.

(vii) He worshipped idols/ pagan gods.

(viii) He married many foreign wives who brought with them foreign gods to Israel.

(ix) He allowed his foreign wives to worship their gods.

(x) He built high places of worship for the gods of his wives.

(xi) He imposed heavy taxation on his subjects in order to maintain his large army.

(xii) He overspend and misused the wealth of the kingdom by building a huge palace.
maurice.mutuku answered the question on June 24, 2017 at 08:14


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