About fifty or fifty-five. Based on his age when he took the throne (see note on 1 Kings 2:2), he could not have been more than about s…

Solomon's falling away is distinctly traced to his polygamy, contracting numerous marriages with “strange women.” Polygamy is also attributed to Da…

And it came to pa , when Solomon was old
Toward the latter end of his reign, when he might be near sixty years of ag…

There is not a more melancholy and astonishing instance of human depravity in the sacred Scriptures than the one recorded here. Solomon became a pu…