Points To Ponder 08/08/2013

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POINTS TO PONDER:
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Growing in God takes time. Like a child growing…it takes time. But if you feed him he will grow. If you feed on Gods love you will grow.
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BIBLE QUIZ: 
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Old Testament/Stories of Solomon (I Kings 7:1 ff)

. . . It took Solomon __________ years, however, to complete the construction of his palace. He built the Palace of the Forest of Lebanon a hundred cubits long, fifty wide and thirty high, with four rows of cedar columns supporting trimmed cedar beams. It was roofed with cedar above the beams that rested on the columns-- forty-five beams, fifteen to a row. Its windows were placed high in sets of three, facing each other. All the doorways had rectangular frames; they were in the front part in sets of three, facing each other. He made a colonnade fifty cubits long and thirty wide. In front of it was a portico, and in front of that were pillars and an overhanging roof.

He built the throne hall, the Hall of Justice, where he was to judge, and he covered it with cedar from floor to ceiling.

And the palace in which he was to live, set farther back, was similar in design. Solomon also made a palace like this hall for Pharaoh's daughter, whom he had married. All these structures, from the outside to the great courtyard and from foundation to eaves, were made of blocks of high-grade stone cut to size and trimmed with a saw on their inner and outer faces. The foundations were laid with large stones of good quality, some measuring ten cubits and some eight. Above were high-grade stones, cut to size, and cedar beams. The great courtyard was surrounded by a wall of three courses of dressed stone and one course of trimmed cedar beams, as was the inner courtyard of the temple of the LORD with its portico.

King Solomon sent to Tyre and brought _______, whose mother was a widow from the tribe of Naphtali and whose father was a man of Tyre and a craftsman in bronze. _________ was highly skilled and experienced in all kinds of bronze work. He came to King Solomon and did all the work assigned to him. . . .

How many years did it take Solomon to build his palace? Who did Solomon bring to Jerusalem to do the bronze work?

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