Comparing 1Kings 8 and the 8th prophetic book Amos: God is a God of wonders. I had just finished making a study on 2Kings 8 and the 8th prophetic book Amos, mostly chapters 1-3 a few days ago. And today I was reading Amos from chapter 4. I realized that chapter 4 God did all that Solomon prayed that in times of difficulty man should pray unto God. But Amos writes that God sent all those difficulties also mentioned by Solomon and man didnt turn to God. //------------------------------------------------------------------// Solomons prayer in 1Kings 8 has come to reality as described in Amos 4. Ever since Israel, the northern tribes wandered away and made their own kingdom they fell in idolatry to avoid going to Jerusalem and make their sacrifices there in the temple. And this is Gods word to Israel that despite all the punishments God sent such as no rain, plagues, famine, pestilence, blasting, mildew, locusts Israel never returned to God. 1Kings 8 35 When heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against thee; if they pray toward this place, and confess thy name, and turn from their sin, when thou afflictest them: 36 Then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy servants, and of thy people Israel, that thou teach them the good way wherein they should walk, and give rain upon thy land, which thou hast given to thy people for an inheritance. 37 If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, blasting, mildew, locust, or if there be caterpiller; if their enemy besiege them in the land of their cities; whatsoever plague, whatsoever sickness there be; Amos 4 7 And also I have withholden the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest: and I caused it to rain upon one city, and caused it not to rain upon another city: one piece was rained upon, and the piece whereupon it rained not withered. 8 So two or three cities wandered unto one city, to drink water; but they were not satisfied: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD. 9 I have smitten you with blasting and mildew: when your gardens and your vineyards and your fig trees and your olive trees increased, the palmerworm devoured them: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD. 10 I have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of Egypt: your young men have I slain with the sword, and have taken away your horses; and I have made the stink of your camps to come up unto your nostrils: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD. 11 I have overthrown some of you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD. //------------------------------------------------------------------// Dan is mentioned in the book of Amos and during the reign Jeroboam Is reign right after Solomon, the northern tribes of Israel formed a separate kingdom. And to prevent Israelites to go sacrifice to Jerusalem which belonged to Judah Jeroboam I made idols/gods in Bethel and Dan. And this is the subject of the entire book of Amos written during Jeroboam II because they never recovered from this until Assyria took them captive. Heres another way which the book of Amos is connected, the number 8 mentioned in the eighth month and a feast: 1Kings 12 26 And Jeroboam said in his heart, Now shall the kingdom return to the house of David: 27 If this people go up to do sacrifice in the house of the LORD at Jerusalem, then shall the heart of this people turn again unto their lord, even unto Rehoboam king of Judah, and they shall kill me, and go again to Rehoboam king of Judah. 28 Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold, and said unto them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. 29 And he set the one in Bethel, and the other put he in Dan. 30 And this thing became a sin: for the people went to worship before the one, even unto Dan. 31 And he made an house of high places, and made priests of the lowest of the people, which were not of the sons of Levi. 32 And Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like unto the feast that is in Judah, and he offered upon the altar. So did he in Bethel, sacrificing unto the calves that he had made: and he placed in Bethel the priests of the high places which he had made. 33 So he offered upon the altar which he had made in Bethel the fifteenth day of the eighth month, even in the month which he had devised of his own heart; and ordained a feast unto the children of Israel: and he offered upon the altar, and burnt incense. Most probably this is the day which God mentioned: Amos 8 10 And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day. //------------------------------------------------------------------// gilgalsbiblewheel.blogspot.ca/2014/06/1kings-8.html //------------------------------------------------------------------// Please Like! Comment! Share among your friends and groups! Pass the word! 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