The text from which we get our theme, “Consider the Lilies” notes Jesus saying, “But I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory did not clothe himself like one of these” (Luke 12:27). Solomon could have said that about himself, for he was a student of wildflowers, too.
I Kings 4:33 records “He described plant life from the cedar of Lebanon to the hyssop that grows out of walls.”
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