Shlomo's ups and downs

In class this week we talked about Shlomo and his Shlomo starts off with so  much wisdom. He starts off by marrying Paroah's daughter and making an alliance with Egypt. In the Pesukim it even says that Shlomo loved Hashem. It says that Shlomo had the potential to be the ideal king. Everyone knew about Shlomo's wisdom and people came to him for a wise judgment. Shlomo collected taxes from the city mainly in order to build that Bait Hamikdash. Shlomo builds the Bait Hamikdash and a house for him with the money collected for the taxes. Hashem made a promise to Shlomo-if you walk in my was your kingdom will continue forever, but if you don't keep my ways then I will destroy the people and the Bait Hamikdash. Shlomo started to collect taxes from the people surrounding Israel. Malcat Sheva comes to check out Shlomo's wisdom. She mentioned that Shlomo should continue let G-d continue to allow him to do Tzedek Umishpat. Here it is mentioned the words לשם ה. If you rearrange the letters you get שלמה. I see this as a lesson. Here it is showing that Shlomo is still with Hashem and is still following his laws. This phrase is not shown again with Shlomo ruling as king-showing that Shlomo lost his connection with Hashem.

Then Shlomo starts to change, he begins to collect money, he started to marry wives from other nations, and he had too many horses-all the items you are not allowed to have as a Jewish king. Shlomo collected taxes and most of the tax money that he collected he took for his own use. Shlomo started to make alliances with other nations-he started to cling to his foreign wives rather than to Hashem. His heart was not with Hashem anymore. Shlomo started to build bamot for his foreign wives for Avodah Zarah. Hashem became furious with Shlomo. Then there is an explaination of why the kingdom gets split-Shlomo did not keep his half of the promise. He betrayed Hashem and therefore Hashem doesn't have to keep is side of the promise. He tells Shlomo that He will tear the kingdom away from him and leave him with only one tribe left but it won't be in his lifetime.