Solomon Furnished the Temple
2 Chronicles 4:1-5:1
Key Verse: 4:5:1
Date: May. 14, 2018
Question
What are we specifically taught in the first commandment by the words before me?
Answer
The words before me in the first commandment teach us that God, Who sees everything, notices and is very offended by the sin of having any other god.
Reference Passages
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Deuteronomy 30:17-18
17 But if your heart turns away, and you will not hear, but are drawn away to worship other gods and serve them, 18 I declare to you today, that you shall surely perish. You shall not live long in the land that you are going over the Jordan to enter and possess.
Psalm 44:20-21
20 If we had forgotten the name of our God
or spread out our hands to a foreign god,
21 would not God discover this?
For he knows the secrets of the heart.
Ezekiel 8:12
12 Then he said to me, “Son of man, have you seen what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the dark, each in his room of pictures? For they say, ‘The LORD does not see us, the LORD has forsaken the land.’”