BIBLICAL VIEW | FOOLISHNESS (3)

1. Introduction

a) Proverbs 20:21 New Living Translation (NLT)

21 An inheritance obtained too early in life is not a blessing in the end.

b) There's another version that suggests ultimate problems for those who obtain an inheritance dishonestly.

c) There are times when, under divine providence, men are advanced very quickly into positions of great wealth and/or authority...

2. Some get power and end up in ruins...

a) Adonijah claims the Throne.

i) 1 Kings 1:5-9 New Living Translation (NLT)

5 About that time David’s son Adonijah, whose mother was Haggith, began boasting, “I will make myself king.” So he provided himself with chariots and charioteers and recruited fifty men to run in front of him. 6 Now his father, King David, had never disciplined him at any time, even by asking, “Why are you doing that?” Adonijah had been born next after Absalom, and he was very handsome.

7 Adonijah took Joab son of Zeruiah and Abiathar the priest into his confidence, and they agreed to help him become king. 8 But Zadok the priest, Benaiah son of Jehoiada, Nathan the prophet, Shimei, Rei, and David’s personal bodyguard refused to support Adonijah.

9 Adonijah went to the Stone of Zoheleth near the spring of En-rogel, where he sacrificed sheep, cattle, and fattened calves. He invited all his brothers—the other sons of King David—and all the royal officials of Judah.

3. How did that end?

a) 1 Kings 2:25 New Living Translation (NLT)

25 So King Solomon ordered Benaiah son of Jehoiada to execute him, and Adonijah was put to death.