Study Habits of the Wisest Builder

What did Solomon spend his time learning about?

Read or Listen: 1 Kings 4:20-34

As I have mentioned previously, Jesus’s concluding words in the famous sermon on the mount contrast a tale of two builders:

“Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock. But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash.” - Matthew 7:24-27

This contrast should cause us to consider more the difference between wise and foolish. The Bible’s greatest expert on this subject is King Solomon. Not only did he write a great deal about wisdom in the book of Proverbs, but the Bible tells us that he himself was the wisest man to ever live, and he was the one who built God’s temple in Jerusalem.