Oops of the Day

When Solomon was crowned king and asked God to give him wisdom because he was just a child, he was not literally a child. 

I Kings chapters 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 & Song of Solomon 3:11

Fact Of the Day 

No!  Solomon was only 18 or 19 years old when he became king. These are the events after Bathsheba becomes pregnant with Solomon in I Kings chap. 11:
1 year – war with Ammonites (chap. 12)
2 years – Dtr Tamar raped by son Amnon and Absalom’s revenge (chap. 13)
3 years – Absalom exiled by father (chap. 13)
2 years – Absalom back in Jerusalem still rejected (chap. 14)
4 years – Absalom judges people when David not making self available (chap. 15)
1 year – Absalom finally makes self king (chap. 15-19)
1 year – Sheba rebels (chap. 20)
3 years – Famine (chap. 21)
1 year – Census & plague (chap. 24) & dies (I Ki. 1-2)
18 years of events after Bathsheba becomes pregnant with Solomon
David died at age 70 after reigning 40 years. Solomon was crowned on his wedding day (Song of Solomon), reigned 40 years and died. His son, Rehoboam, became king when he was age 41. So, Solomon was around age 18 or maybe 19 when he became king.

Oops of the Day

Absalom was a rebellious son who always defied his father though David did nothing but love him.

II Samuel 13, 14, 15, 19:4

Fact Of the Day 

No! Absalom’s brother raped his sister, Tamar but their father did not punish the rapist  (II Samuel 13:14; 21, 23;) 2 YEARS later, Absalom killed his rapist brother, then was banished for 3 YEARS  (II Samuel 14:13; 28-32).  Finally, someone convinced David to let Absalom come home.  So he allowed Absalom to return to Jerusalem but David refused to see him for another 2 YEARS.  After still another 4 YEARS, Absalom finally rebelled (II Samuel 15:7).  FOR 11 YRS. DAVID TREATED ABSALOM BADLY.  David loved God dearly and was a good warrior, but was not always a good father.

Oops of the Day

Poor crippled Mephibosheth, orphaned son of Crown Prince Jonathan, lived in desolate LoDebar where nothing could grow and with no communication with the outside world. 

II Samuel 9:4

Fact Of the Day 

No! LoDebar was on the outskirts of a major east-west trade route between China and Europe and 10 miles from the prosperous Sea of Galilee.

Oops of the Day

The feet of  Mephibosheth, Jonathan’s son, were crippled.  So he used crutches to help him walk. 

II Samuel 4:4 – II Samuel 19:24

Fact Of the Day 

No! He wasn’t just a cripple.  His feet were paralyzed.  When King David was running from Absalom, Mephibosheth did not “care for his feet”.  The only reason he would have to take special care of his feet is if they were paralyzed.  He would have to check them constantly to see if they had accidentally hit something and been cut. He could not have used normal crutches because his feet were useless in touching the floor.  He could have only used 3-footed stand-alone crutches and swung his feet between them.

Oops of the Day

Jesus was made a little lower than angels.

Psalm 8:4-6 – Hebrews 2:6

Fact Of the Day 

No!  In both Greek and Hebrew, this word means messenger, emissary or envoy; someone who or something that carries a message or charge, without further saying what kind of being is doing the messaging.  Malachi predicted there were going to be two messengers with two messages – one (John the Baptist) to introduce the second messenger (Jesus), and the second messenger to introduce the kingdom of God.  Psalm 8:6 says this messenger created the world, and all things were put under his feet. Angels cannot create and will never have all things under their feet. The translation should be that God made him a little lower than God by putting him in a human body.  

Oops of the Day

A witch caused Samuel to come back from the dead to talk to King Saul.

I Samuel 28:11-14 & 19 – Deuteronomy 24:1

Fact Of the Day 

No! (1) The witch was surprised when she saw the “ghost”. (2) It came up out of the ground. Any human God allowed to return to earth always did so from the sky. (3) Just because what the “ghost” said came true does not prove it was Samuel; Pagan Balaam’s prophecy came true; but he was condemned in Revelation.

Oops of the Day

David was a mere boy when he killed Goliath.

I Samuel 16:17- I Samuel 17:38-39

Fact Of the Day 

No!  He was “a mighty man of valor’” when he sang for Saul to calm him soon after killing Goliath.  He was big enough to wear Saul’s armor.  He had already killed a lion and bear with his bare hands.

Oops of the Day

 

Saul was always a bad king.

I Samuel 13:1 – I Samuel 14:47-52

Fact Of the Day 

No!  For over 40 years, he fought all of Israel’s enemies valiantly in order to protect his people.  On all sides, one nation or another was always invading and trying to take over the Promised Land.  At the end, it was jealousy that destroyed King Saul.

Oops of the Day

 

Only priests from the tribe of Levi ever served as high priest.

I Samuel 1:1-2 – I Samuel 2:15 –  I Samuel 2:34-35 – I Samuel 3:19-21 – I Chronicles 6:1, 25-38

Fact Of the Day 

No! Even though Samuel was not a Levite, he served as high priest.  Samuel’s father was Elkhanah, an Ephriamite. But when High Priest Eli did not try to stop his priestly sons’ sins, God said he was going to choose the next high priest himself and it was not going to be by inheritance as before.  Samuel’s later descendants were identified as Levites.  Apparently, Levite High Priest, Eli, adopted Samuel at age 2-4 when his mother took him to the temple to live. God himself qualified Samuel to be high priest. 

Oops of the Day

 

Moses left his wife, Zipporah, back in Media and married another woman.

Exodus 2:21 – Exodus 18:3-4 – Exodus 4:20-26  – Exodus 7:7 – Exodus18:1-6 & 27 – Exodus 19:1 – Exodus 6:16-23 – Exodus 12:1 – Hebrews 3:2

Fact Of the Day 

No! Moses was 40 when he married Zipporah.  They had two sons – Gershon (not the son of Moses’ grandfather Levi) & Eleazar. (not the son of brother Aaron).  After 40 years of marriage at age 80, Moses took his wife and two sons with him to head for Egypt.  Part of the way there, Zipporah circumcised one of their sons (now ages 40 and c 38).  Moses sent them back to Midian (for the circumcised son to heal and because of too many hardships).  But, in less than 3 months after Moses freed the slaves, his father-in-law brought his wife and two sons to Moses.  Soon after, his father-in-law left, but not Moses’s wife and sons. Some time later, Moses’s sister and brother complained about the Cushite woman he had married.  Historians sometimes describe Cush as Ethiopia, sometimes Sudan, sometimes Yemen, sometimes South Arabia.  Media was a nomadic tribe in Arabia.  Centuries later in Hebrews 3:2, it says Moses and all his household were faithful to God.