{"query": "Solomon the Wise-Then-Divided", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_aef9ddf02a7d", "title": "Solomon the Wise-Then-Divided", "shelf": "reference", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Asks for wisdom and is given it abundantly; builds the temple; receives the queen of Sheba; multiplies wives and horses and gold against the law of the king; gods of his wives turn his heart; the king"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_1_kings_12_1", "title": "Matthew Henry on 1 Kings 12:1", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On 1 Kings 12:1 — Solomon had 1000 wives and concubines, yet we read but of one son he had to bear up his name, and he a fool. It is said (Hos 4:10), They shall commit whoredom, and shall not increase"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_1_kings_4_1", "title": "Matthew Henry on 1 Kings 4:1", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On 1 Kings 4:1 — Here we have,\nI. Solomon upon his throne (Kg1 4:1): So king Solomon was king, that is, he was confirmed and established king over all Israel, and not, as his successors, only over two"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_proverbs_21_20", "title": "Matthew Henry on Proverbs 21:20", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Proverbs 21:20 — Note, 1. Those that are wise will increase what they have and live plentifully; their wisdom will teach them to proportion their expenses to their income and to lay up for hereafte"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_1_kings_11_9", "title": "Matthew Henry on 1 Kings 11:9", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On 1 Kings 11:9 — Here is, I. God's anger against Solomon for his sin. The thing he did displeased the Lord. 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And what said Faithful to you then? HOPE. He bid me go to him and"}, {"id": "card_n_5da07e15b6f7", "title": "Pilgrim's Progress §381: HOPE.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "HOPE. Now I have showed you the reasons of their going back, do you show me the manner thereof. CHR. So I will willingly. 1. They draw off their thoughts, all that they may, from the remembrance of Go"}, {"id": "card_n_d0bd5a148095", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_04_xli: Oh, wretched I, to whom this mischance is happened!", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Oh, wretched I, to whom this mischance is happened! nay, happy I, to whom this thing being happened, I can continue without grief; neither wounded by that which is present, nor in fear of that which i"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_1_kings_4_20", "title": "Matthew Henry on 1 Kings 4:20", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On 1 Kings 4:20 — Such a kingdom, and such a court, surely never any prince had, as Solomon's are here described to be.\nI. Such a kingdom. Never did the crown of Israel shine so brightly as it did whe"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_proverbs_1_1", "title": "Matthew Henry on Proverbs 1:1", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Proverbs 1:1 — We have here an introduction to this book, which some think was prefixed by the collector and publisher, as Ezra; but it is rather supposed to have been penned by Solomon himself, wh"}, {"id": "card_n_1daa056bc81d", "title": "Pilgrim's Progress §103: I beheld, then, that they all went on till they came to the foot of the Hill Difficulty...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "I beheld, then, that they all went on till they came to the foot of the Hill Difficulty; at the bottom of which was a spring. 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