Solomon

King of Israel · 1015–975 BC

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His Reign

Reigned
forty years 1 Kings 11:42
His Mother
Bathsheba 1 Kings 1:11
Before Him
David

In the Sight of the LORD

“Solomon did evil in the sight of the LORD” 1 Kings 11:6

Ussher’s Years

Reigned 1015–975 BC
“he presently caused his son Solomon to be apointed King by Zadock the Priest”

Ussher counts his forty years from when David made him king, half a year before David died (1 Kings 1:39; 2:10).

Dated by Archbishop James Ussher’s Annals of the World (1658), quoted as printed.

Where His Reign Is Told