The prototype destroyed

David : 2 Samuel 11




²⁵ David said to the messenger, “Tell Yo’av, ‘Don’t let this matter get you down — the sword devours in one way or another. Intensify your battle against the city, and overthrow it.’ And encourage him.”

²⁶ When the wife of Uriyah heard that Uriyah her husband was dead, she mourned her husband. ²⁷ When the mourning was over, David sent and took her home to his palace, and she became his wife and bore him a son.
But Adonai saw what David had done as evil.













Solomon 1 Kings 11

11

King Solomon loved many foreign women along with the daughter of Pharaoh: Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, and Hittite women,
²from the nations concerning which the Lord had said to the Israelites, ‘You shall not enter into marriage with them, neither shall they with you; for they will surely incline your heart to follow their gods;’ Solomon clung to these in love.
³Among his wives were seven hundred princesses and three hundred concubines; and his wives turned away his heart.
⁴For when Solomon was old, his wives turned away his heart after other gods; and his heart was not true to the Lord his God, as was the heart of his father David.
⁵For Solomon followed Astarte the goddess of the Sidonians, and Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.

⁶So Solomon did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, and did not completely follow the Lord, as his father David had done.
⁷Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for Molech the abomination of the Ammonites, on the mountain east of Jerusalem.


⁸He did the same for all his foreign wives, who offered incense and sacrificed to their gods.
9 Then the Lord was angry with Solomon, because his heart had turned away from the Lord, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice,
¹⁰and had commanded him concerning this matter, that he should not follow other gods; but he did not observe what the Lord commanded.
¹¹Therefore the Lord said to Solomon, ‘Since this has been your mind and you have not kept my covenant and my statutes that I have commanded you, I will surely tear the kingdom from you and give it to your servant.

¹²Yet for the sake of your father David I will not do it in your lifetime; I will tear it out of the hand of your son.

¹³I will not, however, tear away the entire kingdom; I will give one tribe to your son, for the sake of my servant David and for the sake of Jerusalem, which I have chosen.’



2 Chronicles

¹¹ Moreover, he built high places in the hills of Y’hudah, caused the people living in Yerushalayim to prostitute themselves and drew Y’hudah away.

¹² A letter came to him from Eliyahu the prophet which said, “Here is what Adonai, the God of David your ancestor, says: ‘You have not lived by the examples of Y’hoshafat your father or Asa king of Y’hudah. 
 
 
 
¹³ Instead you have lived by the example of the kings of Isra’el and have caused Y’hudah and the people living in Yerushalayim to prostitute themselves, just as the house of Ach’av caused [Isra’el] to prostitute themselves. Moreover, you killed your brothers from your father’s house, men better than you. 







¹⁴ Because of all this, Adonai is going to strike your people with a terrible disease, also your children, your wives and everything you have. 
¹⁵ You will be very ill from a disease in your intestines, until your intestines protrude, because of the effects of this disease, day after day.’”

A Book about Exile - Deuteronomy

Deuteronomy 30 (RY: ii, LY: iv) 

“When the time arrives that all these things have come upon you, both the blessing and the curse which I have presented to you; and you are there among the nations to which Adonai your God has driven you; then, at last, you will start thinking about what has happened to you;  

² and you will return to Adonai your God and pay attention to what he has said, which will be exactly what I am ordering you to do today — you and your children, with all your heart and all your being.  

³ At that point, Adonai your God will reverse your exile and show you mercy; he will return and gather you from all the peoples to which Adonai your God scattered you.  

⁴ If one of yours was scattered to the far end of the sky, Adonai your God will gather you even from there; he will go there and get you.

⁵ Adonai your God will bring you back into the land your ancestors possessed, and you will possess it; he will make you prosper there, and you will become even more numerous than your ancestors.

⁶ Then Adonai your God will circumcise your hearts and the hearts of your children, so that you will love Adonai your God with all your heart and all your being, and thus you will live. 

 (RY: iii, LY: v)  

⁷ Adonai your God will put all these curses on your enemies, on those who hated and persecuted you;  

⁸ but you will return and pay attention to what Adonai says and obey all his mitzvot which I am giving you today.  

⁹ Then Adonai your God will give you more than enough in everything you set out to do — the fruit of your body, the fruit of your livestock, and the fruit of your land will all do well; for Adonai will once again rejoice to see you do well, just as he rejoiced in your ancestors.

¹⁰ “However, all this will happen only if you pay attention to what Adonai your God says, so that you obey his mitzvot and regulations which are written in this book of the Torah, if you turn to Adonai your God with all your heart and all your being. 

(LY: vi) 

¹¹ For this mitzvah which I am giving you today is not too hard for you, it is not beyond your reach. 
¹² It isn’t in the sky, so that you need to ask, ‘Who will go up into the sky for us, bring it to us and make us hear it, so that we can obey it?’  


¹³ Likewise, it isn’t beyond the sea, so that you need to ask, ‘Who will cross the sea for us, bring it to us and make us hear it, so that we can obey it?’  


¹⁴ On the contrary, the WORD is very close to you — in your MOUTH, even in your HEART; therefore, you can do it!

Deuteronomy 32

Complete Jewish Bible (CJB)

32 “Hear, oh heavens, as I speak!
Listen, earth, to the words from my mouth!

² May my teaching fall like rain.
May my speech condense like dew,
like light rain on blades of grass,
or showers on growing plants.

³ “For I will proclaim the name of Adonai.
Come, declare the greatness of our God!
⁴ The Rock! His work is perfect,
for all his ways are just.

A trustworthy God who does no wrong,
he is righteous and straight.

⁵ “He is not corrupt; the defect is in his children,
a crooked and perverted generation.
⁶ You foolish people, so lacking in wisdom,
is this how you repay Adonai?
He is your father, who made you his!
It was he who formed and prepared you!

Prototype Shelf-life

Deuteronomy

27 (CJB)

¹⁴ The L’vi’im, speaking loudly, will proclaim to every man of Isra’el:
¹⁵ “‘A curse on anyone who makes a carved or metal image, something Adonai detests, the handiwork of a craftsman, and sets it up in secret!’ All the people are to respond by saying, ‘Amen!’
¹⁶ “‘A curse on anyone who dishonors his father or mother.’ All the people are to say, ‘Amen!’
¹⁷ “‘A curse on anyone who moves his neighbor’s boundary marker.’ All the people are to say, ‘Amen!’
¹⁸ “‘A curse on anyone who causes a blind person to lose his way on the road.’ All the people are to say, ‘Amen!’
¹⁹ “‘A curse on anyone who interferes with justice for the foreigner, orphan or widow.’ All the people are to say, ‘Amen!’
²⁰ “‘A curse on anyone who has sexual relations with his father’s wife, because he has violated his father’s rights.’ All the people are to say, ‘Amen!’
²¹ “‘A curse on anyone who has sexual relations with any kind of animal.’ All the people are to say, ‘Amen!’
²² “‘A curse on anyone who has sexual relations with his sister, no matter whether she is the daughter of his father or of his mother.’ All the people are to say, ‘Amen!’
²³ “‘A curse on anyone who has sexual relations with his mother-in-law.’ All the people are to say, ‘Amen!’
²⁴ “‘A curse on anyone who secretly attacks a fellow member of the community.’ All the people are to say, ‘Amen!’
²⁵ “‘A curse on anyone who accepts a bribe to kill an innocent person.’ All the people are to say, ‘Amen!’
²⁶ “‘A curse on anyone who does not confirm the words of this Torah by putting them into practice.’ All the people are to say, ‘Amen!’



 

Deuteronomy 28

Complete Jewish Bible (CJB)

28 “If you listen closely to what Adonai your God says, observing and obeying all his mitzvot which I am giving you today, Adonai your God will raise you high above all the nations on earth; ² and all the following blessings will be yours in abundance — if you will do what Adonai your God says:

³ “A blessing on you in the city, and a blessing on you in the countryside.

⁴ “A blessing on the fruit of your body, the fruit of your land and the fruit of your livestock — the young of your cattle and flocks.
⁵ “A blessing on your grain-basket and kneading-bowl.
⁶ “A blessing on you when you go out, and a blessing on you when you come in.
(vi) ⁷ “Adonai will cause your enemies attacking you to be defeated before you; they will advance on you one way and flee before you seven ways.

⁸ “Adonai will order a blessing to be with you in your barns and in everything you undertake; he will bless you in the land Adonai your God is giving you.
⁹ “Adonai will establish you as a people separated out for himself, as he has sworn to you — if you will observe the mitzvot of Adonai your God and follow his ways. ¹⁰ Then all the peoples on earth will see that Adonai’s name, his presence, is with you; so that they will be afraid of you.
¹¹ “Adonai will give you great abundance of good things — of the fruit of your body, the fruit of your livestock and the fruit of your land in the land Adonai swore to your ancestors to give you. ¹² Adonai will open for you his good treasure, the sky, to give your land its rain at the right seasons and to bless everything you undertake. You will lend to many nations and not borrow; ¹³ Adonai will make you the head and not the tail; and you will be only above, never below — if you will listen to, observe and obey the mitzvot of Adonai your God ¹⁴ and not turn away from any of the words I am ordering you today, neither to the right nor to the left, to follow after other gods and serve them.

²⁰ “Adonai will send on you curses, disasters and frustration in everything you set out to do, until you are destroyed and quickly perish, because of your evil actions in abandoning me.
²¹ “Adonai will bring on you a plague that will stay with you until he has exterminated you from the land you are entering in order to take possession of it.
²² Adonai will strike you down with wasting diseases, fever, inflammation, fiery heat, drought, blasting winds and mildew; and they will pursue you until you perish.


²³ “The sky over your head will be brass and the earth under you iron.
²⁴ Adonai will turn the rain your land needs into powder and dust that will fall on you from the sky until you are destroyed.
²⁵ “Adonai your God will cause you to be defeated before your enemies; you will advance on them one way and flee before them seven. You will become an object of horror to every kingdom on earth. 
²⁶ Your carcasses will become food for all the birds in the air and the wild animals, and there will be no one to scare them away.
²⁷ Adonai will strike you down with the boils that broke out on the Egyptians, tumors, skin lesions and itching, all incurable.
²⁸ Adonai will strike you with insanity, blindness and utter confusion.  

The Prototype fully built

The people: 1 Kings 4:20 (CJB)

²⁰ Y’hudah and Isra’el were as numerous as sand grains on the seashore; they ate, drank and enjoyed themselves




 

The Place: 1 Kings 4:21 (NIV)

²¹ And Solomon ruled over all the kingdoms from the Euphrates River to the land of the Philistines, as far as the border of Egypt. These countries brought tribute and were Solomon’s subjects all his life.


 

Eternal King : 1 Kings 8 (CJB)

⁶ The cohanim brought the ark for the covenant of Adonai in to its place inside the sanctuary of the house, to the Especially Holy Place, under the wings of the k’ruvim.  
⁷ For the k’ruvim spread out their wings over the place for the ark, covering the ark and its poles from above.  
⁸ The poles were so long that their ends could be seen from the Holy Place in front of the sanctuary, but they could not be seen from outside; they are there to this day.  
⁹ There was nothing in the ark except the two tablets of stone which Moshe put there at Horev, when Adonai made the covenant with the people of Isra’el at the time of their leaving the land of Egypt.
¹⁰ When the cohanim came out of the Holy Place, the cloud filled the house of Adonai,  
¹¹ so that, because of the cloud, the cohanim could not stand up to perform their service; for the glory of Adonai filled the house of Adonai.