9-12 (2 Kings 14:21). Solomon’s Influence on His Children—It was this prophecy of impending ruin that had awakened the apostate king as from a dream, and had led him to repent, and to seek to stay, so far as possible, the terrible tide of evil that during the later years of his reign had been rising high and still higher. But at the time of his repentance, only a few years of life remained to him, and he could not hope to avert the consequences of long years of wrong-doing. His course of evil had set in operation influences that afterward he could never fully control.{2BC 1033.2}

9-12 (kp. 14,21). Salomons indflydelse på sine børn. - Det var denne profeti om forestående ruin der vækkede den frafaldne konge som fra en drøm, og havde ledt ham til at anger, og til at forsøge at forblive der, så vidt det var muligt for ondskabens tidevandsbølge der i de sidste år af hans regering havde rejst sig højere og højere. Men på tidspunktet for hans anger, kun nogle af de livsår han havde tilbage, og han kunne ikke håbe at bortlede konsekvenserne mange års fejlagtighed. Hans onde handlemåde havde sat gang i en påvirkning, der efterfølgende aldrig kom kontrol over.