1 Kings 2:11
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 f...
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....
forty years: 920-880 B.C.
And the time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel was forty years. Solomon reigned - forty years - Josephus says fourscore years, whic...
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; bu...
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 com...
Solomon's Errors and their Consequences. His Death This chapter furnishes an account of Solomon's marriages with numerous foreign princesses, and...
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 ac...
HOLLOW PROSPERITY 1 Kings 11:1-43 "Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity." - Ecclesiastes 1:2 "At every...
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...
the Wise King's Foolish Son 1 Kings 11:41-43 ; 1 Kings 12:1-11 Solomon's reign had been splendid but very oppressive, and it was reasonable to...
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 e...
(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 t...
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 li...
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 measure...
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 w...
MANY MARRIAGES LEADING TO IDOLATRY (vs.1-13) Solomon also disobeyed Deuteronomy 17:17 in making many marriages with foreign women, from the Moa...
The Death of Solomon. B. C. 975. 41...
No text from Poole on this verse.
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 gi...
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. Had...
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 marr...
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 i...
Solomon's Adversaries and Death
And the time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel was forty years, his entire age therefore not exceeding sixty by many years.
Forty years — His reign was as long as his father's, but not his life; sin shortened his days.
42 And the timeg that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel was forty years.