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  1. Gold. Women. Horses<\/em>. Joining the unimaginable quantities of gold, and the fantastically huge cavalry described in the previous chapter, is the absolutely legendary number of wives and concubines – 1000! (verse 4). The criticism of the number of wives is overt, and it reminds us that this is one of the three explicit limitations that the laws regarding kingship seeks to place on an Israelite king: \u201cMoreover, he shall not keep many <\/span>horses <\/b>or send people back to Egypt to add to his horses\u2026And he shall not have many <\/span>wives<\/b>, lest his heart go astray; nor shall he amass <\/span>silver and gold <\/b>to excess\u201d (Deut. 17:16-17).<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Regards from the Book of Samuel<\/em>. A kingdom torn from its king, and a cloak symbolically rent, are reminiscent of Saul (see 1 Samuel 15, e.g.). Now, though, the tearing is not final, and the symbolic rip is planned in advance.<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. Long-standing enemies.<\/em> Hadad the Edomite and Rezon the Aramean have some baggage still from David\u2019s regime, and they have been a nuisance during Solomon\u2019s rule (not just towards the end). So why are we hearing about them only now? So we can understand their actions in the context of Solomon\u2019s crime(s) and punishment(s).<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. Egypt<\/em>. Egypt has a changing political role throughout the chapter. At the end of David\u2019s reign, Egypt granted political asylum to Hadad the Edomite. At the height of Solomon\u2019s rule, a strong alliance is forged with Solomon\u2019s marriage to Pharaoh\u2019s daughter. At the end of Solomon\u2019s days, and after a new king arose in Egypt – Shishak – asylum is given to Jeroboam son of Nabat – who rebels against Solomon.<\/span><\/li>\n
  5. Things to keep in mind for the next chapter<\/em>. Jeroboam. He\u2019s from the tribe of Ephraim. He was in charge of \u201cthe laborers of the House of Joseph,\u201d that is the corv\u00e9e that the central government imposed on the northerners. 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