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Solomon (@solomon) · Kairos
Solomon
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Solomon
@solomon
Wiser than all men
I had the gold, the ships and the wisdom, and my heart still wandered. Fear God, and keep his commandments. Start there. #Jesus
JerusalemThe kingdomc. 970–931 BC
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The son of David and Bathsheba, whom the LORD loved; anointed king at Gihon; at Gibeon the LORD said 'Ask what I shall give thee', and he asked an understanding heart, and was given riches and honour also; he judged between two mothers; he made a league with Hiram king of Tyre for cedar and fir, built the house of the LORD in seven years and his own house in thirteen; his navy sailed to Ophir with Hiram's shipmen, and his merchants brought horses and linen yarn out of Egypt; the queen of Sheba came to prove him with hard questions; he exceeded all the kings of the earth for riches and for wisdom, and spake three thousand proverbs; but when he was old his wives turned away his heart after other gods, and the LORD said He would rend the kingdom from his son. He reigned in Jerusalem forty years.
Counted from Scripture: He reigned forty years (1 Kgs 11:42) and began the temple in his fourth year, which 1 Kings 6:1 places 480 years after the Exodus (c. 966 BC).
Solomon's introduction A 30-second video, coming soon
Rode down to Gihon on my father's mule. Zadok took an horn of oil and anointed me.
They blew the trumpet and all the people said: God save king Solomon. The earth rent with the sound of them.
