1 Kings 11:42 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And the timeg that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel was forty years. ”

1 Kings 11:42 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Josephus gave Solomon a reign of 80 years, either because he wished to increase the glory of his country’s greatest king, or through his having a false reading in his copy of the Septuagint Version...
1 Kings 11:42 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Sin of Solomon, and the Adversaries Raised up in Consequence. From various differences in the arrangement of the earlier verses in the LXX and Heb., it has been supposed that in its original form t...
1 Kings 11:42 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

forty years: 920-880 B.C.
1 Kings 11:42 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And the time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel was forty years. Solomon reigned - forty years - Josephus says fourscore years, which is sufficiently absurd. Calmet supposes him to h...
1 Kings 11:42 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Forty years— Josephus, Antiq. lib. 8: cap. 3 tells us, that Solomon lived to a great age, that he reigned eighty years, and died at ninety-four; but this is a manifest error in that historian; and...
1 Kings 11:42 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And the rest of the acts of Solomon, and all that he did, and his wisdom, are they not written in the book of the acts of Solomon? No JFB commentary on these verses.
1 Kings 11:42 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Solomon's Errors and their Consequences. His Death This chapter furnishes an account of Solomon's marriages with numerous foreign princesses, and traces the evil effect of such in the toleration o...
1 Kings 11:42 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Forty years. — The reign of Solomon was thus of the same length as that of his father. (See 1 Kings 2:11 .) The coincidence is curious; but the accurate historical character of the whole narrative...
1 Kings 11:42 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

HOLLOW PROSPERITY 1 Kings 11:1-43 "Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity." - Ecclesiastes 1:2 "At every draught more large and large they grow, A bloated...
1 Kings 11:42 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Breaking Three Commandments 1 Kings 21:1-29 ; 1 Kings 1:1-53 ; 1 Kings 2:1-46 ; 1 Kings 3:1-28 ; 1 Kings 4:1-34 ; 1 Kings 5:1-18 ; 1 Kings 6:1-38 ; 1 Kings 7:1-51 ; 1 Kings 8:1-66 ; 1 Ki...
1 Kings 11:42 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

At this point the story of Solomon suddenly changes. The glory passes away, and we observe his rapid degeneracy and doom. The nature of the man had ever a strong animal side. His commercial enterpris...
1 Kings 11:42 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(41) В¶ And the rest of the acts of Solomon, and all that he did, and his wisdom, are they not written in the book of the acts of Solomon? (42) And the time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all...
1 Kings 11:42 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And the time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem, over all Israel, was forty years. The same says Eupolemus z, an Heathen writer, who makes him to live but fifty two years; which is the common tradit...
1 Kings 11:42 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And the time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel [was] forty years. Ver. 42. And the time. ] Heb., Days; one of the shortest measures of time. Solomon Ecc 3:2 alloweth men a time to...
1 Kings 11:42 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The time that Solomon reigned was forty years His reign was as long as his father's, but not his life: sin shortened his days. And Solomon slept with his fathers This expression is promiscuously...
1 Kings 11:42 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

MANY MARRIAGES LEADING TO IDOLATRY (vs.1-13) Solomon also disobeyed Deuteronomy 17:17 in making many marriages with foreign women, from the Moabites, Alnmonites, Edomites, Sidonians and Hittite...
1 Kings 11:42 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Death of Solomon. B. C. 975. 41 And the rest of the acts of Solomon, and all that...
1 Kings 11:42 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

No text from Poole on this verse.
1 Kings 11:42 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Comments In Respect Of The Close Of Solomon's Reign ( 1 Kings 11:41-43 ). It will be noted that some of the information which will in future be given at the commencement of a king's reign here com...
1 Kings 11:42 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.— 1 Kings 11:15 . When David was in Edom ; or, was (at war) with. The Sept. and Peshito read, had smitten. Hadad was a royal child, rescued from Joab’s extirmi...
1 Kings 11:42 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

1 Kings 11:1 . Solomon loved many strange women, of gentile nations, and was connected with them. To this day thousands of women in India are married to great men merely as a mark of honour, and t...
1 Kings 11:42 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION SOLOMON 'S ADVERSARIES .—As the historian has collected together in 1 Kings 6:1-11 ; 1 Kings 7:1-11 ; 1 Kings 8:1-11 , all the information he can convey respecting the temple,...
1 Kings 11:42 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Solomon's Adversaries and Death
1 Kings 11:42 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Kings 2:11
1 Kings 11:42 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Forty years — His reign was as long as his father's, but not his life; sin shortened his days.

1 Kings 11:42 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

1 Kings 11:42 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

1 Kings 11:42 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

1 Kings 11:42 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

1 Kings 11:42 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

1 Kings 11:42 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

1 Kings 11:42 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

1 Kings 11:42 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

1 Kings 11:42 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

1 Kings 11:42 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

1 Kings 11:42 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

1 Kings 11:42 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

1 Kings 11:42 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

1 Kings 11:42 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

1 Kings 11:42 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

1 Kings 11:42 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

1 Kings 11:42 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

1 Kings 11:42 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

1 Kings 11:42 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

1 Kings 11:42 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

1 Kings 11:42 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

1 Kings 11:42 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

1 Kings 11:42 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

1 Kings 11:42 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Kings 11:42 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes