Lesson Notes By Weeks and Term - Senior Secondary School 2

SUBJECT: CHRISTIAN RELIGIOUS KNOWLEDGE

CLASS:  SS 2

DATE:

TERM: 2nd TERM

REFERENCE

• Essential Christian Religious Knowledge for SS 1-3. By EdmondUgochukwu.
• Comprehensive Christian Religious Knoledge for SS 1-3. By Martins I.Amaechi,
• Holy Bible R.S.V (compulsory)
• WAEC CRK PAQ. (1988-2017)

 
WEEK SEVEN

TOPIC: MAKING DECISIONS

• Solomon’s Wisdom. I Kings3;3-28;4;29-34;5;-1-12;8;1
• Unwise policies of Solomon and Rehoboam /How Solomon Misused his Wisdom-I king’s 9;15-23;11;-13;`12;1-20
• Consequences of Solomon’s Misuse of his Wisdom

SOLOMON’S WISDOM I KING’S3;3-28;4;29-34;51-12;8-1

Solomon succeeded his father –David.During this time, he had a lot of responsibilities resting on his shoulders.As was the custom, Solomon went to Gibeon to offer sacrifice to God. The Lord appeared to him in a dream and said ‘’Ask what l shall give ‘’.He asked for wisdom. Solomon’s request pleased God so exceeding that he granted him his request. He also added to him riches and honour. Solomon used his wisdom to Judge the case of two harlots who lived in the same room and both had babies.One of the babies died and the mother now claimed to the living baby. Solomon ruled that the living child be cut into two and each half be giving to each woman

However, the real mother of the living child wept and asked the king not to slay the baby,instead, it should be giving to her rival who insisted that the baby be divided. From their utterances, Solomon knew the real mother and gave her the baby.

Apart  from judicial matters, his wisdom was manifested in other ways. In all, Solomon spoke three thousand proverbs and his songs werea thousandand five.He was reputed to be the wisest man then.

BUILDING OF THE TEMPLE AND ITS DEDICATION

Solomon made arrangement with Hiram of Tyre to supply him with cypress timber and cedar with which to build the temple of the Lord as well as his personal house. In return, he gave Hiram twenty thousand measures of Kors wheat and twenty measures of pressed oil as food  for his household yearly. When the temple was completed, the ark of covenant was brought into the temple and he prayed and dedicated it to the Lord.

EVALUATION

1. What did king Solomon ask from God when he became the king of Israel?
2. How did he demonstrate this attribute?

UNWISE POLICIES OF SOLOMON AND REHOBOAM / HOW SOLOMON MISUSE HIS WISDOM I KING 9: 15-23

There was peace during the reign of Solomon. This made him live in luxury.  He embarked on expensive projects and wasted a lot of human and material resources. The following were Solomon’s unwise policies which made his wisdom shortlived.

1. He embarked upon expensive wasteful and gigantic venture or projects.  He build his own house for thirteen years.
2. The people paid through their noses as they were heavily levied.  The people were also subjected to force labour.
3. He married from countries God had warned the Israelites not to marry from.
4. He had an uncontrollable desire for woman.  Altogether he had seven hundred wives and three hundred concubines.
5. This led to the fall of Solomon and the division of Israel as a nation.  He died and his son Rehoboam reigned in his stead.  

REHOBOAM’S UNWISE POLICY 1 KGS. 12: 1-20

Rehoboam was made king in Shechem.  Hearing that Rehoboam had been made king, Jeroboam returned from Egypt where he had gone to seek asylum after going into self exile for fear of Solomon.  Jeroboam and some elders of Israel to Rehoboam to lighten the yoke his father Solomon placed on the people.  Rehoboam asked them to come for a reply after some days.  Rehoboamsought the opinions of the elders who in turn told him to listen to the plea of the people. He also asked his peers but they advised him wrongly and he heeded to their advice. He spoke to the people roughly and said he would chastise them with whips and scorpions.

Rehoboam’s expensive taste made him over-burden his own people with unbearable taxes.  Things started falling apart, eventually the kingdom was divided into two.  Jeroboam became over ten tribes of Israel known as the Northern kingdom while Rehoboam reigned in Judah Thus, Rehoboam’s unwise decisions and diplomatic blunder led to the division of Israel which David toiled to build.

EVALUATION

1. What lessons can Nigeria leaders learn from Solomon’s mistake.
2. Justify or condemn those decisions taken by Solomon under the circumstances then.

GENERAL EVALUATION/REVISION QUESTION

1. What did king Solomon ask from God when he became the king of Israel?
2. Describe the unwise policies of Rehoboam.
3. Discuss God as the controller of the universe.   
4. Describe the uniqueness of man among the creations of God.

READING ASSIGNMENT

Comprehensive Christian Religious Knowledge for SS 1-3 by Martins I. Amaechi pages 61-65.

WEEKEND ASSIGNMENT

1. Solomon did not show wisdom in _____A. building the temple B. marrying foreign wives C. not killing the baby brought by the harlotD. praising God
2. Rehoboam made the mistake of _____A. following his father’s footsteps of tyranny B. leading Israel to war C.marrying foreign wives.D. isolating other leaders
3. One of the reasons for the division of the kingdom was _____A. forced labourB.Ahijah’s prophecy C.Rehoboam’s lazinessD. Jeroboam’s agitation
4. Jeroboam was in which country when Solomon died ____A. PhilistiaB. CanaanC. EgyptD.syria
5. Solomon imported cedar and cypress timber for the building of the temple from ____A. Egypt B. BabylonC.TyreD. Sidon

THEORY

1. What did king Solomon ask from God when he became king of Israel?
2. How did he demonstrate this attribute?