Nach Yomi A Deeper Look: Melachim Alef 9 "Too much gold?"

But if not, there would be terrible, dire consequences to pay in the future.

After all that, the final three pesukim, uh, in our perek talk about, about, uh, Shlomo HaMelech's maritime adventures, which of course involved him inter-interacting with, uh, Hiram once again, as the Phoenicians, uh, ca-- uh, from Tzor were very, very good sailors, and Shlomo went ahead to, uh, go ahead and go traveling.

And of course, um, together with, uh, Hiram's sailors, Shlomo's, uh, sailors came to Ophir to take a lot of gold from there.

Now, uh, we know that, uh, the king has certain responsibilities to make sure that he doesn't overindulge.

We know he's not supposed to overindulge in horses.

We know he's not supposed to overindulge in wives.

And, uh, we also know he's not supposed to, uh, overindulge in kesef and zahav.

Chazal tell us that Shlomo HaMelech had a lot of gold and silver, but he never got punished for that, even though it meant traveling as far away as Ophir.

W-where was Shlomo, uh, considered guilty? He was guilty by violating, uh, the adding of extra wives and the adding of extra horses, right? Uh, [speaking in foreign language] we're told in those things, the [speaking in foreign language], namely Shlomo HaMelech sinned.

So, uh, how could it be that, uh, the gold and silver, he seems to be amassing huge amounts of gold and silver.

How come that is considered okay for Shlomo while the adding of huge amounts of wives and even more amounts of horses was not, uh, deemed to be okay? So it sounds like, uh, Shlomo HaMelech was either supposed to be paying off his own bills, in which case that's not called excessive, right? Uh, after all, people, sixty thousand people were eating with him every single day at his table.

Or maybe this was all for Beis Hashem, for the Beis HaMikdash, and maybe that's why [speaking in foreign language] that's why this is brought out over here.