Day 97 | 1 Kings 1–2 — Riding In on the King’s Own Mule — Solomon’s Crowning and David’s Final Justice | Bible in a Year

An aging king leaves a vacuum, and injustice always rushes into a vacuum first. One son crowns himself before anyone can stop him. A prophet and a queen intervene just in time, and the true heir rides into the city on the very mule that announces the fighting is already over. With his last breath, David hands off every unresolved debt he never had the will to settle himself — and for one brief season, justice actually reigns.Here we consider succession, advocacy, unfinished justice, and a kingdom finally getting what it was owed.