Inside 1 Kings 2: The Scripture That Solves Genesis 3

Solomon told Shimei that on the day he left Jerusalem and crossed the Brook Kidron, he would surely die. Shimei left Jerusalem, went after his runaway slaves, came back, and likely lived for days afterward before Solomon finally had him executed. He almost certainly didn't die on the same day he left. Did that break Solomon's word? This is Part 2 of our study on what "in the day you eat of it you shall surely die" really means in Genesis 2 and 3. In Part 1, we introduced the idea that God's warning to Adam was a sealed and certain death sentence rather than a same-day physical death. In this video, we go to 1 Kings 2 and look at Solomon's warning to Shimei, given in the exact same Hebrew construction God used in the garden, "dying you shall die." Shimei left Jerusalem, and it was days before he was executed, yet he never once objects that the timing didn't match what Solomon said. That silence is the key. Solomon wasn't promising execution on the same day. He was declaring that Shimei's fate was now sealed and certain the moment he broke the condition. That is the same pattern we find in Genesis 2 and 3. God was not wrong, and Satan was not right. On the day Adam and Eve ate the fruit, their death sentence became certain. It did not need to be carried out that same day to be true. Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.