Little Details

2 Chronicles 8: 12-15
12 Then Solomon offered up burnt offerings to the LORD on the altar of the LORD that he had built before the vestibule,
13 as the duty of each day required, offering according to the commandment of Moses for the Sabbaths, the new moons, and the three annual feasts-the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks, and the Feast of Booths.
14 According to the ruling of David his father, he appointed the divisions of the priests for their service, and the Levites for their offices of praise and ministry before the priests as the duty of each day required, and the gatekeepers in their divisions at each gate, for so David the man of God had commanded.
15 And they did not turn aside from what the king had commanded the priests and Levites concerning any matter and concerning the treasuries.

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The completion of the temple marked a new period of history for Israel and the world. My guess is that Solomon was a busy man. Building an enormous temple, along with his own palace takes a lot of time, work, energy, leadership, management, and planning. In these 4 short verses, we see that Solomon didn't forget to instill certain details like the divisions of priests, Levites, and gatekeepers.

I kept feeling drawn back to this verse, but unsure why. On one end, the feasts and Sabbaths and duties of the priests and Levites were given to Israel as foundations and absolute necessities as a nation (that’s a given), but I feel like the Lord is speaking about the necessity of the things that might otherwise seem like "little details." It's probably easy to oversee the building of a temple and slack on little details that are actually very important, like making sure the priests and gatekeepers are all organized and know what they are supposed to do. When it comes to myself, I tend to almost always slack on the details, the "little things."

Solomon was a great leader, especially in this important time for Israel, because he had vision and wisdom, but also knew the importance of the "little details."