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The second book of Chronicles picks up from where the first book had ended. (In fact, the separation of the book into two did not originate with Jews and Chronicles counts as one book among the 24 books of the Hebrew Bible.) It opens with King Solomon beginning to reign over the people of Israel. It was under Solomon that the Israelites were united and it was under Solomon that the Temple of God was built, two events that are linked more than can initially be perceived. The destruction of both the first and second Temples is attributed to the disunity of the Jewish people.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

I would, however, like to focus on the Biblical version of the genie story: God comes to Solomon and tells him he can request anything he wants. One wish and poof, it will happen. Before asking for anything, Solomon thanks God for the kindness done to his father David and only then he asks for something \u2013 wisdom. And why does he want wisdom? Not for his own sake, but so that he can come before the people and judge them.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Solomon could have asked for wealth, for power, for long life; he could have requested peace. But he asked for wisdom (and ends up being granted all the other things as well). What is fascinating is the realization of a political leader that he or she is there to serve the people, not the other way around; that in order to effectively lead the people he or she needs wisdom, not power, not an army, not a pen to sign decrees. It might be exactly because of Solomon\u2019s wisdom, tested shortly after through the story of the two prostitutes who are disputing a surviving newborn, that he is able to unite the tribes into one kingdom and he is able to bring all together, a community which \u2013 despite and because of its internal differences \u2013 is able to unite around a vision of a nation.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Politicians around the world could learn from Solomon. Jewish community leaders could learn from Solomon. And Jews around the world could learn from Solomon. We have many internal differences \u2013 many ways we label ourselves and each other, and others who dislike any labels at all. 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The end of I Chronicles consisted of multiple chapters detailing how much David had prepared for the Temple. None of that information appears in the book of Kings or Samuel II. From those books, one gets the impression that David had the idea for the Temple, but it was Solomon that actually put everything together and brought David's dream to life. I Chronicles made it seem like Solomon did not have a unique role in the building of the Temple.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The first chapter of II Chronicles tries to rectify that impression by including some additional details in the transition story. \"The bronze altar, which Bezalel son of Uri son of Hur had made, was also there before the Tabernacle of the L<\/span>ORD<\/span>, and Solomon and the assemblage resorted to it.\" (verse 5). This verse does not appear in the parallel story in I Kings.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Why was it necessary to include this additional fact that the copper altar that Solomon used was built by Bezalel? We already have the connection of the old tabernacle with references to Moses. To answer this we must look at how Bezalel is introduced:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\"See, I have singled out by name Bezalel son of Uri son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah. II have endowed him with a divine spirit of skill, ability, and knowledge in every kind of craft, to make designs for work in gold, silver, and copper, to cut stones for setting and to carve wood\u2014to work in every kind of craft. (Exodus 31:2-5).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Even though Moses is given the explicit instruction about how to build the Tabernacle, God still singles out Bezalel (and Oholiab) to use their unique skills to put the plan in action. By including Bezalel here, the Chronicler is linking the skilled craftsman to Solomon.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

David, much like Moses, may have set up the materials and plans, but it was Bezalel and now Solomon who needed to use their own unique wisdom to make it a reality. In fact, two verses after this obscure reference to Bezalal the chapter tells the famous story of Solomon's request for wisdom over wealth and grandeur. Just like God endowed Bezalel with skill and knowledge, so too he endows Solomon.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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\"Give me now wisdom and knowledge \u2026\"<\/em> (Second Chronicles 1:10)<\/p>\r\n

When King Solomon was young, he learned
\r\nThe language of soft-eyed gazelles that graze among the lilies,
\r\nWho taught him how to leap from crag to crag
\r\nOn the mountains of spices, and to step firmly along steep cliffs.
\r\nHe learned the language of doves that nest in clefts of rocks,
\r\nWho taught him the secrets of how the male courts the female,
\r\nAnd the way of a man with a maid.
\r\nAfter the winds blew gently before dawn,
\r\nAwakening him in his orchard of pomegranates,
\r\nSolomon wrote The Song of Songs.<\/p>\r\n

When King Solomon grew older, he learned
\r\nThe language of ants that gather their food in the summer,
\r\nOf locusts that have no general yet go forth in troops,
\r\nOf spiders that weave webs in his palace.
\r\nHe learned the language
\r\nOf snakes sunning themselves on rocks in spring,
\r\nOf eagles gliding in the air in autumn,
\r\nOf rock-badgers that hide in winter.
\r\nWhen his ships set sail to bring him peacocks and monkeys from Ophir,
\r\nSolomon wrote The Book of Proverbs.<\/p>\r\n

When King Solomon was an old man,
\r\nSatiated from conversing with animals and birds,
\r\nHe studied the language of the moon, the stars and the sun,
\r\nWho taught him to everything there is a season
\r\nAnd a time under heaven:
\r\nA time to sing and a time to refrain,
\r\nA time to speak and a time to keep silent,
\r\nA time to write and a time to lay down the pen.
\r\nFor what profit does a man have from all his labor
\r\nThat he labors under the sun?<\/p>\r\n

King Solomon sighed.
\r\n\u201cThis too is vanity and a striving after the wind.
\r\nSurely for the wise man, whose eyes are in his head,
\r\nHis wisdom should make his face shine.
\r\nSurely God should bring every deed into judgment
\r\nConcerning every hidden thing,
\r\nBe it for good or for evil.\u201d
\r\nAfter writing Kohelet, the old man
\r\nStood up, leaned down on his cane
\r\nAnd said 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With the commencement of the second half of the Book of Chronicles, we resume, at least temporarily, our comparisons with parallel texts in the Earlier Prophets, noting some of the same sort of discrepancies we noted previously. For instance, let us compare the following two verses:<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
\r\n

1 Kings 3:3<\/span><\/p>\r\n

And Solomon, though he loved the L<\/span>ORD<\/span> and followed the practices of his father David, also sacrificed and offered at the shrines.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<\/td>\r\n

\r\n

2 Chr. 1:1<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Solomon son of David took firm hold of his kingdom, for the L<\/span>ORD<\/span> his God was with him and made him exceedingly great.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n

Just as the Chronicler omitted references to some of King David\u2019s egregious errors (see, in particular, 1 Chr. 20-22), here he seems to have turned the same \u201cblind\u201d eye towards King Solomon. Indeed, his downplaying of the king\u2019s tolerance for \u201cshrines\u201d (<\/span>bamot<\/span><\/em>, literally high places) is magnified in a subsequent verse. Whereas 1 Kings explains the choice of Gibeon as: \u201cfor that was the largest shrine; on that altar Solomon presented a thousand burnt offerings\u201d (3:4), namely, its size and prominence, the Chronicler awarded its selection a less controversial reason: \u201cfor the Tent of Meeting, which Moses the servant of the L<\/span>ORD<\/span> had made in the wilderness, was there\u201d (1:3).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The <\/span>bamot<\/span><\/em> became a constant thorn in the side of the rulers of both Judah and Israel, as attested to by the recurring coda accompanying the digest of their activities as reported throughout the Book of Kings: \u201cOnly the <\/span>bamot<\/span><\/em> remained in place; the people continuing to sacrifice and offer incense on them.\u201d Malbim, revisiting some of his commentary on 1 Kings, wove that religious element into this chapter, too:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

After he offered the sacrifices at Gibeon and spent the night there, [Solomon] took the copper altar and the utensils of the Tent of the Meeting from Gibeon and brought them to Jerusalem. This is what appears to me from the language of Scripture because in 1 Kings it says: \u201cThey took the ark of the Lord and the Tent of the Meeting and all of the holy utensils that were in the tent\u201d (8:4 [parallel in 2 Chr. 5:5]), which implies that they were all to be found in Jerusalem along with the ark\u2026<\/span><\/p>\r\n

It was a chore to go to Gibeon every time [Solomon] wanted to sacrifice, so he brought it all to Jerusalem and sacrificed there either on the copper altar of Moses or [presumably] sacrifice at a shrine was permitted once the Tent and all its utensils were no longer in Gibeon.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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1:3 \u201cAnd Solomon and all the assembly with him went to the high place that was in Gibeon, for there the Tent of God\u2019s Meeting was that Moses servant of God had made in the wilderness.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Even though there is no historical possibility that the Tent of Meeting could have been preserved until Solomon\u2019s time, this is still another way of confirming the sacrosanct legitimacy of the cult overseen by Solomon.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

From: Robert Alter, The Hebrew Bible<\/em>, vol. 3: Writings, W. W. Norton & Co., 2019, ad loc. 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  1. Comp lit<\/em>. In 1 Kings 3 you can find the story of the revelation in Gibeon. There are differences, and they are worth comparing: in Kings, after divine wisdom was granted to Solomon, the story of the Judgment of Solomon is brought as proof. Here in 2 Chronicles, there is also a proof of Solomon\u2019s greatness. But it\u2019s in the realm of wealth and international trade and not in law and society.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  2. What is left unsaid<\/em>. In 1 Kings chapters 1-2, the story of the coronation of Solomon begins with the story of how Adonijah his brother crowns himself, and in that context, Bathsheba and Nathan the Prophet intervene. David passes on the kingship with an explicit will, ordering the closing of accounts, including dealing with unpleasant issues that are liable to bother Solomon in his reign.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  3. Everything is alright<\/em>. A high place in Gibeon? The Chronicler makes some order here in the Temple cult. The Tent of Meeting is in Gibeon includes the copper basin from the days of Moses, and the Ark is in a tent in Jerusalem. There is order and continuity between the Tabernacle and the Temple (coming soon).\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
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