It's week 10, and we've finally started into the stories of the kings. King Solomon has been crowned, the incredible Temple has been built, and the spectating Israelites "went to their tents joyful and glad of heart for all the goodness that the Lord had shown to David His servant and to Israel His people" (1 Kings 8:66b). At last, after their centuries of slavery and decades in the wilderness and long years of growing pains as a nation, it feels like Israel has found rest in her Promised Land.

And it's here, at the pinnacle of their prosperity, that we heard God issue a prophetic warning.