I Kings 2: The Godfather

YINR 929: Tanach Yomi · Oct 8, 2026 · 2m

To the best experience possible reading chapter 2, one needs to play Nino Rota’s famous score for The Godfather in the background. With all the transitions in leadership in Tanach, there are actually only a handful of discussions between successor leaders. Moshe to Joshua is one and David to Shlomo is another. There is no other king to successor speech recorded in Tanach for the rest of the books of kings. We can glean certain aspects of David’s character from his lessons to Shlomo. David’s message to Shlomo comes in two parts. The first is the holy message. David instructs Shlomo to love and…