December 16, 2012 – 1 Kings 2

Solomon starts off with a real blaze of taking down daddy’s nemeses.  There appears to be no mercy here.  And I have heard the scene with Bathsheba used to describe Mary’s relationship with Christ in Heaven and there is a lot of truth to it, but taken in context of this particular story it doesn’t end well for the one asking the favor.  It seems a given that Bathsheba was with the king and that if you wanted to ask the king for something you would go to his mother.  The Queen Mother was titled such and it makes sense because the kings had more than one wife.  They didn’t know which wife should be queen, so none of them were, the mother of the king was queen.  But it appears that this system sets up Adonijah with a sense of confidence that is evidently misguided.  I guess the lesson is that if you go to Mary with your intercessions, they still need to be in response to God’s will and His call.  You can’t go to Mary asking for things you shouldn’t get.  Mary can intercede for us, but God is the one that answers and responds to those request and He may not always respond in the way in which we hoped or expected.