Good governance, stability and prosperity

Chronicles 8:1-10

1. Good governance, stability and prosperity: the king Solomon in the four decades (see the next generation of 9.30), first focus on the first two decades of construction of the temple and the palace above. Thereafter, he continued good governance. Although his writing in Chronicles, Solomon is the Prince of Peace, and the neighbors friendly, but in order to purge borders, the establishment of peaceful reunification of the country, he also had to lead the troops set off Zobah Hama (3). In addition, he has massive construction projects, the construction of city (2,5), the construction of integrated cargo City (4,6), to invest heavily on building national defense (5,6), created for the people of Israel live in peace and harmony are not afraid of its powerful neighbor harassment environment.

2. Large-scale construction, full employment: For many large construction projects, both require huge supplies of Solomon, but also a huge labor force. Solve the manpower problem in the Solomon requisition all the descendants of the Canaanites as coolie labor; they are occupying the land of Canaan when the people of Israel, not to kill people and their descendants, including the Hittites, Amorites, Billy washing people, hope not, and the Jebusites (7). These have been defeated in the people of Israel, has since become the slaves of the victors, until the age of Chronicles is still so. Solomon's manpower policy, enabling the people of Israel without hard labor, and focus on defense and management (9-10), is a reasonable arrangement.

In Solomon's leadership, Israel's national day by day increased. In Israel, full employment, everyone has a job, the exhibition director, concentric building economic prosperity, stability and prosperity of society.

Solomon for the nation and the people, building a prosperous and stable society, Chronicles of Solomon to this effect made a very positive assessment. However, the prosperity and stability after all the material and cultural level, but more importantly is the people's spiritual connotations. If only for the king to help the people who live in affluent and stable environment, but they ignore their moral and even spiritual life, society will have very easy to corrupt, and even died ease the crisis. In fact, the first recorded Chronicles of the temple project, that the Lord's presence, then it describes Israel's prosperity and stability of society, this is a reflection of the people should seek God first, and then led in pursuit of a better God life. Today, the prosperity and stability not that we dream of life? Life in the pursuit of this ideal process, you see the importance of spiritual meaning? Only emphasized the economic growth of a society, what crises and challenges?

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