First and Second Kings (Biblia.com)

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Old Testament scholar Terence Fretheim identifies the theology in the dramatic accounts of the books of Kings, which chronicles the reigns of more than forty kings over a period of nearly four hundred years. Interspersing theological reflections throughout, Fretheim trace’s God’s words of judgment and promise for Israel—and for us—across the entirety of Kings.

God’s gift of wisdom does not function in independence from Solomon’s own use, misuse, or non-use of that gift. The story of Solomon, finally, testifies to his failure to use well the wisdom God has made available to him. The wisdom that God grants Solomon is not a supernatural implantation of a body of knowledge or a miraculous reconfiguration of Solomon’s brain cells. Rather, it is an ongoing effective divine presence that includes instruction (see 8:36; Deut. 1:17; Ps. 25:4–5, 8–10; 143:10). As

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