{"id":2624,"date":"2023-11-24T14:53:28","date_gmt":"2023-11-24T20:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/?p=2624"},"modified":"2023-11-18T14:59:01","modified_gmt":"2023-11-18T20:59:01","slug":"november-26-2023-1-kings-11-the-fall-and-death-of-solomon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/?p=2624","title":{"rendered":"November 26, 2023 &#8211;  1 Kings 11 &#8211; The Fall and Death of Solomon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>King Solomon&#8217;s fall from being a wise and righteous ruler to a deluded, foolish, idolatrous doormat to his many wives&#8217; demands is both puzzling and tragic. His sin caused God to later rip away 10 tribes from his son Rehoboam and split the kingdom in two. It&#8217;s unclear whether Solomon changed his ways in his old age, but hints in scripture including the Book of Ecclesiastes point to his eventual repentance.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.communityoncolumbia.org\/pdf\/Readings_Notes\/1Kings11_Notes.pdf\">Notes on 1 Kings 11:1-43<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>King Solomon&#8217;s fall from being a wise and righteous ruler to a deluded, foolish, idolatrous doormat to his many wives&#8217; demands is both puzzling and tragic. His sin caused God to later rip away 10 tribes from his son Rehoboam &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/?p=2624\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2625,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-readings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2626,"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2624\/revisions\/2626"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}