2 Chronicles 2
THE PRIVILEGE OF SLAVES

Solomon conscripted a slave labour force to build the temple of the LORD. His slaves were made up of all the aliens in the land – those who were left from the time when Joshua led Israel into Canaan.

“Then Solomon counted all the resident aliens who were in the land of Israel, after the census of them that David his father had taken, and there were found to be 153,600. Seventy thousand of them he assigned to bear burdens, 80,000 to quarry in the hill country, and 3,600 as overseers to make the people work.” (2 Chronicles 2 v 17 – 18 ESV).

Looking at it from the point of view of the slaves, it could have seemed quite a burden to be made a slave again when they had been free for so long. It wouldn’t have seemed fair. But there is an upside to this story. These slaves were given the grand privilege of building the temple of the LORD. They cut the stones, hauled the logs and carried the nails for the greatest structure ever built for the Living God – the greatest the world had ever seen.

Sometimes we may feel as if life isn’t treating us fairly, as I am sure the slaves felt. But God has plans for us even in those trying circumstances: his glory may be growing right under our noses.

May we give glory to God in all we do this week.

With love in our Lord,
Robert

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