12 So Solomon sat on the throne of David his father, and his kingdom was firmly established.
1 Kings 2:12 (ESV)
1. Solomon deals with Adonijah’s manipulation for more: 1 Kings 2:13-25 (ESV)
11 Not that I am speaking of being in need, for I have learned in whatever situation I am to be content. 12 I know how to be brought low, and I know how to abound. In any and every circumstance, I have learned the secret of facing plenty and hunger, abundance and need. 13 I can do all things through him who strengthens me. Philippians 4:11-13 (ESV)
30 “A man shall not take his father’s wife, so that he does not uncover his father’s nakedness Deuteronomy 22:30 (ESV).
2. Solomon deals with Abiathar’s straying spirit: 1 Kings 2:26-27 (ESV)
13 though formerly I was a blasphemer, persecutor, and insolent opponent. But I received mercy because I had acted ignorantly in unbelief, 1 Timothy 1:13 (ESV)
31 Behold, the days are coming when I will cut off your strength and the strength of your father’s house, so that there will not be an old man in your house. 32 Then in distress you will look with envious eye on all the prosperity that shall be bestowed on Israel, and there shall not be an old man in your house forever. 33 The only one of you whom I shall not cut off from my altar shall be spared to weep his eyes out to grieve his heart, and all the descendants of your house shall die by the sword of men. 1 Samuel 2:31-33 (ESV)
3. Solomon deals with Joab’s defiant spirit: 1 Kings 2:28-35 (ESV)
6 “Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed, for God made man in his own image. Genesis 9:6 (ESV)
14 But if a man willfully attacks another to kill him by cunning, you shall take him from my altar, that he may die. Exodus 21:14 (ESV)
28 Afterward, when David heard of it, he said, “I and my kingdom are forever guiltless before the LORD for the blood of Abner the son of Ner. 29 May it fall upon the head of Joab and upon all his father’s house, and may the house of Joab never be without one who has a discharge or who is leprous or who holds a spindle or who falls by the sword or who lacks bread!” 2 Samuel 3:28-29 (ESV)
4. Solomon deals with Shemei who forsook mercy: 1 Kings 2:36-46 (ESV)
6 He said to his men, “The LORD forbid that I should do this thing to my lord, the LORD’s anointed, to put out my hand against him, seeing he is the LORD’s anointed.”
1 Samuel 24:6 (ESV)
So the kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon. (1 Kings 2:46)
33 But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you. Matthew 6:33 (ESV)