Friday in Season after Pentecost

1Verse 1. Then Samuel took a flask of oil, poured it on Saul’s head, kissed him, and said, “Has not the LORD anointed you ruler over His inheritance? 2Verse 2. When you leave me today, you will find two men at Rachel’s tomb in Zelzah on the border of Benjamin. They will say to you, ‘The donkeys you seek have been found, and now your father has stopped worrying about the donkeys and started worrying about you, asking, “What should I do about my son?”’ 3Verse 3. Then you will go on from there until you come to the Oak of Tabor. Three men going up to God at Bethel will meet you there, one carrying three young goats, another carrying three loaves of bread, and another carrying a skin of wine. 4Verse 4. They will greet you and give you two loaves of bread, which you will accept from their hands. 5Verse 5. After that you will come to Gibeah of God, where the Philistines have an outpost. As you approach the city, you will meet a group of prophets coming down from the high place, preceded by harps, tambourines, flutes, and lyres, and they will be prophesying. 6Verse 6. Then the Spirit of the LORD will rush upon you, and you will prophesy with them; and you will be transformed into a different person. 7Verse 7. When these signs have come, do as the occasion demands, for God is with you. 8Verse 8. And you shall go before me to Gilgal, and surely I will come to you to offer burnt offerings and to sacrifice peace offerings. Wait seven days until I come to you and show you what you are to do.”

26Verse 26. Solomon accumulated 1,400 chariots and 12,000 horses, which he stationed in the chariot cities and also with him in Jerusalem. 27Verse 27. The king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar as abundant as sycamore in the foothills. 28Verse 28. Solomon’s horses were imported from Egypt and Kue; the royal merchants purchased them from Kue. 29Verse 29. A chariot could be imported from Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and a horse for a hundred and fifty. Likewise, they exported them to all the kings of the Hittites and to the kings of Aram. 1Verse 1. King Solomon, however, loved many foreign women along with the daughter of Pharaoh — women of Moab, Ammon, Edom, and Sidon, as well as Hittite women. 2Verse 2. These women were from the nations about which the LORD had told the Israelites, “You must not intermarry with them, for surely they will turn your hearts after their gods.” Yet Solomon clung to these women in love. 3Verse 3. He had seven hundred wives of royal birth and three hundred concubines — and his wives turned his heart away. 4Verse 4. For when Solomon grew old, his wives turned his heart after other gods, and he was not wholeheartedly devoted to the LORD his God, as his father David had been. 5Verse 5. Solomon followed Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians and Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites. 6Verse 6. So Solomon did evil in the sight of the LORD; unlike his father David, he did not follow the LORD completely. 7Verse 7. At that time on a hill east of Jerusalem, Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab and for Molech the abomination of the Ammonites. 8Verse 8. He did the same for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods.