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Biblical account

A reconstruction of the ancient Middle East, as how the area may have been seen through the eyes of the ancient Israelites.

Family

Solomon’s father was David, king of the united Kingdom of Israel with Bathsheba. Solomon had many siblings including Amnon, who was killed on the order of their half-brother, Absalom, for raping Absalom’s sister, Tamar. (2 Samuel 13:1-29) Absalom was killed in the Battle of Ephraim Wood, and Adonijah, who had tried to usurp the throne, was put to death. (1 Kings 2:13-25)

Wives

Solomon had seven hundred wives and three hundred concubines. The wives are described as foreign princesses, including Pharaoh’s daughter and women of Moab, Ammon, Sidon and of the Hittites. These wives are depicted as leading Solomon astray. The only wife that is mentioned by name is Naamah, who is described as the Ammonite. She was the mother of Solomon’s successor, Rehoboam.

Succession

Solomon became king after the death of his father David. According to the biblical First Book of Kings, when David was ” old and advanced in years” “he could not get warm.” “So they sought for a beautiful young woman throughout all the territory of Israel, and found Abishag the Shunammite, and brought her to the king.”

While David was in this state Adonijah, David’s fourth son, acted to have himself declared king, he being heir-apparent to the throne after the death of his elder brothers Amnon and Absalom. But Bathsheba, a wife of David and Solomon’s mother, along with the prophet Nathan induced David to proclaim Solomon king. Adonijah fled and took refuge at the altar, and received pardon for his conduct from Solomon on the condition that he show himself “a worthy man” (1 Kings 1:5-53).

Adonijah asked to marry Abishag the Shunammite, but Solomon denied authorization for such an engagement, although Bathsheba now pleaded on Adonijah’s behalf. He was then seized and put to death (1 Kings 2:13-25). As made clear in the earlier story of Absalom’s rebellion, to have sex with the King’s wife or concubine was in this society tantamount to claiming the throne; evidently, this applied even to a woman who had shared the bed of an old king.

David’s general Joab was killed, in accord with David’s deathbed request to Solomon because he had killed generals Abner and Amasa during a peace (2 Samuel 20:8-13; 1 Kings 2:5). David’s priest Abiathar was exiled by Solomon because he had sided with rival Adonijah. Abiathar is a descendent of Eli, which has important prophetic significance. (1 Kings 2:27) Shimei was confined to Jerusalem and killed three years later when he went to Gath to retrieve some runaway servants in part because he had cursed David when Absalom, David’s son, rebelled against David. (1 Kings 2:1-46)

Artist’s depiction of Solomon’s court (Ingobertus, c. 880.)

Wisdom

One of the qualities most ascribed to Solomon is his wisdom. Solomon prays:

“Give Thy servant an understanding heart to judge Thy people and to know good and evil.”1 Kings 3:9

“So God said to him, ‘Since you have asked for this and not for long life or wealth for yourself, nor have asked for the death of your enemies but for discernment in administering justice, I will do what you have asked…’” (1 Kings 3:11-12) The Bible also states that: “The whole world sought audience with Solomon to hear the wisdom God had put in his heart.” (1 Kings 10:24)

In one account, known as the Judgment of Solomon, two women who came before Solomon to resolve a quarrel about which was the true mother of a baby. One mother had her baby die in the night after rolling over it in her sleep and crushing it; each claims the surviving child as her own. When Solomon suggests dividing the living child in two with a sword, the true mother is revealed to him because she is willing to give up her child to the lying woman, as heartbreaking a decision as it is. Solomon then declares the woman who shows compassion to be the true mother, and gives the baby back to her.

Relationship with Queen of Sheba

Main article: Queen of Sheba

Solomon and the queen of Sheba by Giovanni Demin (1789-1859)

Renaissance relief of the Queen of Sheba meeting Solomon – gate of Florence Baptistry

King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, painting by Piero della Francesca

In a brief, unelaborated, and enigmatic passage, the Bible describes how the fame of Solomon’s wisdom and wealth spread far and wide, so much so that the queen of Sheba decided that she should meet him. The queen is described as visiting with a number of gifts including gold and rare jewels to decorate the temple, and also bringing with her a number of riddles. When Solomon gave her “all her desire, whatsoever she asked,” she left satisfied (1 Kings 10:10).

Whether the passage is simply to provide a brief token foreign witness of Solomon’s wealth and wisdom, or whether there is meant to be something more significant to the queen’s visit and her riddles is unknown; nevertheless the visit of the Queen of Sheba has become the subject of numerous stories.

Sheba is typically identified as Saba, a nation once spanning the Red Sea on the coasts of what are now Eritrea, Somalia, Ethiopia and Yemen, in Arabia Felix. In a Rabbinical account (e.g. Targum Sheni), Solomon was accustomed to ordering the living creatures of the world to dance before him (Rabbinical accounts say that Solomon had been given control over all living things by God), but one day upon discovering that the mountain-cock or hoopoe (the Hebrew name for the creature is Shade) was absent, he summoned it to him, and the bird told him that it had been searching for somewhere new.

The bird had discovered a land in the east, exceedingly rich in gold, silver, and plants, whose capital was called Kitor and whose ruler was the Queen of Sheba, and the bird, on its own advice, was sent by Solomon to request the queen’s immediate attendance at Solomon’s court.

In an Ethiopian account (Kebra Nagast) it is maintained that the Queen of Sheba had sexual relations with King Solomon (of which the Biblical and Quranic accounts give no hint) and gave birth by the Mai Bella stream in the province of Hamasien, Eritrea. The Ethiopian tradition has a detailed account of the affair. (See Queen of Sheba)

The child was a son who went on to become Menelik I, King of Axum, and founded a dynasty that would reign in the eventual stalwart Christian Empire of Ethiopia for 2900+ years (less one usurpation episode and interval of ca. 133 years until a “legitimate” male heir regained the crown) until Haile Selassie was overthrown in 1974. Menelik was said to be a practicing Jew, had been gifted with a replica Ark of the Covenant by King Solomon, but moreover, the original was switched and went to Axum with him and his mother, and is still there, guarded by a single priest charged with caring for the artifact as his life’s task.

The claim of such a lineage and of possession of the Ark has been an important source of legitimacy and prestige for the Ethiopian monarchy throughout the many centuries of its existence, and had important and lasting effects on Ethiopian culture as a whole. The Ethiopian government and church deny all requests to view the alleged ark.

Some classical-era Rabbis, attacking Solomon’s moral character, have claimed instead that the child was an ancestor of Nebuchadnezzar II, who destroyed Solomon’s temple some 300 years later.

Solomon’s sins

According to 1 Kings 11:4 Solomon’s “wives turned his heart after other gods”, their own national deities, to whom Solomon built temples, thus incurring divine anger and retribution in the form of the division of the kingdom after Solomon’s death. (1 Kings 11:9-13)

1 Kings 11 describes Solomon’s descent into idolatry, particularly his turning after Ashtoreth, the goddess of the Sidonians, and after Milcom, the abomination of the Ammonites. In Deuteronomy 17:16-17, a king is commanded not to multiply horses, wives or gold. Solomon sins in all three of these areas. Solomon collects 666 talents of gold each year, (1 Kings 10:14) a huge amount of money for a small nation like Israel. Solomon gathers a large number of horses and chariots and even brings in horses from Egypt. Just as Deuteronomy 17 warns, collecting horses and chariots takes Israel back to Egypt. Finally, Solomon marries foreign women, and these women turn Solomon to other gods.

According to 1 Kings 11:9-13, it was because of these sins that “the Lord punishes Solomon by tearing the kingdom in two”:

And the Lord was angry with Solomon, because his heart had turned away from the Lord, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice and had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not go after other gods. But he did not keep what the LORD commanded. Therefore the Lord said to Solomon, “Since this has been your practice and you have not kept my covenant and my statutes that I have commanded you, I will surely tear the kingdom from you and will give it to your servant. Yet for the sake of David your father I will not do it in your days, but I will tear it out of the hand of your son. However, I will not tear away all the kingdom, but I will give one tribe to your son, for the sake of David my servant and for the sake of Jerusalem that I have chosen.

Solomon’s enemies

Near the end of his life Solomon was forced to contend with several enemies including Hadad of Edom, Rezon of Zobah, and one of his officials named Jeroboam who was from the tribe of Ephraim.

Death, succession of Rehoboam, and kingdom division

The United Monarchy breaks up, with Jeroboam ruling over the northern Kingdom of Israel (green on the map) and Rehoboam ruling the Kingdom of Judah to the south.

According to the Bible and historical research, Solomon died of natural causes at around 80 years of age. Upon Solomon’s death, his son, Rehoboam, succeeded him as king. However, ten of the Tribes of Israel refused to accept him as king, causing the United Monarchy to split and form the northern Kingdom of Israel ruled by Jeroboam, while Rehoboam continued to reign in the southern Kingdom of Judah.

Building and other works

Solomon and the plan for the First Temple, illustration from a Bible card published by the Providence Lithograph Company

A sketch of Solomon’s Temple, based on descriptions in the Scriptures.

During Solomon’s long reign of 40 years, the Israelite monarchy, according to the Bible, gained its highest splendour and wealth. In a single year, according to 1 Kings 10:14, Solomon collected tribute amounting to 666 talents of gold (39,960 pounds).

Solomon is described as surrounding himself with all the luxuries and the external grandeur of an Eastern monarch, and his government prospered. He entered into an alliance with Hiram I, king of Tyre, who in many ways greatly assisted him in his numerous undertakings. For some years before his death, David was engaged in collecting materials for building a temple in Jerusalem as a permanent abode for the Ark of the Covenant. Solomon is described as completing its construction, with the help of an architect, also named Hiram, and other materials, sent from King Hiram of Tyre.

After the completion of the temple, Solomon is described as erecting many other buildings of importance in Jerusalem; for the long space of thirteen years he was engaged in the erection of a royal palace on Ophel (a hilly promontory in central Jerusalem); Solomon also constructed great works for the purpose of securing a plentiful supply of water for the city, and the Millo (Septuagint, Acra) for the defense of the city. However, excavations of Jerusalem have shown a distinct lack of monumental architecture from the era, and remains of neither the Temple nor Solomon’s palace have been found, although it should be noted that a number of significant but politically sensitive areas have not been extensively excavated, including the site that the Temple is traditionally said to have been located.

Solomon is also described as rebuilding major cities elsewhere in Israel, creating the port of Ezion-Geber, and constructing Tadmor in the wilderness as a commercial depot and military outpost. Solomon is additionally described as having amassed a thousand and four hundred chariots and twelve thousand horsemen. Though the location of Solomon’s port of Ezion-Geber is known, no remains have ever been found. More archaeological success has been achieved with the major cities Solomon is said to have strengthened or rebuilt (for example, Hazor , Megiddo and Gezer  1 Kings 9:15); these all have substantial ancient remains, including impressive six-chambered gates, and ashlar palaces, as well as trough-like structures outside buildings that early archaeologists have identified as the stables for Solomon’s horses.

According to the Bible, during Solomon’s reign Israel enjoyed great commercial prosperity, with extensive traffic being carried on by land with Tyre, Egypt, and Arabia, and by sea with Tarshish (Spain), Ophir, and South India.

Apocryphal texts

Rabbinical tradition attributes the Wisdom of Solomon to Solomon although this book was probably written in the 2nd century BCE. In this work Solomon is portrayed as an astronomer. Other books of wisdom poetry such as the Odes of Solomon and the Psalms of Solomon also bear his name. The Jewish historian Eupolemus, who wrote about 157 BCE, included copies of apocryphal letters exchanged between Solomon and the kings of Egypt and Tyre.

The Gnostic Apocalypse of Adam, which may date to the 1st or 2nd century, refers to a legend in which Solomon sends out an army of demons to seek a virgin who had fled from him, perhaps the earliest surviving mention of the later common tale that Solomon controlled demons and made them his slaves. This tradition of Solomon’s control over demons appears fully elaborated in the early Gnostic work called the “Testament of Solomon” with its elaborate and grotesque demonology.

Historical figure

Historical evidence of King Solomon, independent of the biblical accounts, is scarce. Nothing indisputably of Solomon’s reign has been found. Archaeological excavations at Hazor, Megiddo, Bethshan and Gezer have uncovered structures that Israeli archaeologists Amnon Ben-Tor, Amihai Mazar and US Professor William G. Dever argue all belong to his reign and all were simultaneously destroyed by a raid of Shishaq, but Finkelstein and Silberman argue that these structures are dated to the Omride period, more than a century after Solomon’s reign, although they believe that David and Solomon were kings in the region. Excavations on these sites are ongoing. Recently researchers have dated a copper smelting plant at Khirbat en-Nahas in southern Jordan to the 10th century BCE.

Archaeological evidence

In February 2010 archaeologist Eilat Mazar announced the excavation of what she believes is a 10th-century city wall and royal structure that she suggests, because of writing in Hebrew, to corroborate the existence of a royal palace and fortified capital city under control of a Hebrew king in Jerusalem in the 10th-century BCE. Not all archaeologists believe that there was a strong state at that time, and the archaeologist Aren Maeir is dubious about such claims and about Mazar’s dating

Biblical account criticism

According to Israel Finkelstein and Neil Silberman, authors of The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology’s New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts, at the time of the Davidic and Solomonic kingdoms, Jerusalem may have been unpopulated, or at most with only a few hundred residents, leading to the conclusion that this is insufficient for an empire stretching from the Euphrates to Eilath. Also according to The Bible Unearthed, archaeological evidence suggest that the kingdom of Israel at the time of Solomon was little more than a small city state, so they consider the collection of tribute of 666 talents of gold (which Solomon received per year) to be an implausibly large amount of money. Although both Finkelstein and Silberman do accept that David and Solomon were real kings of Judah about the 10th century BCE, they write that the earliest independent reference to the Kingdom of Israel is about 890 BCE, whilst for that of Judah is about 750 BCE. They suggest that due to religious prejudice, later writers (i.e., the Biblical authors) suppressed the achievements of the Omrides (whom the Bible describes as being polytheist), and instead pushed them back to a supposed golden age of godly rulers, i.e., monotheist, and Yahweh-worshiping. Some go further like the biblical minimalists, notably Thomas L. Thompson, who state that Jerusalem only became a city and capable of acting as a state capital in the middle of the seventh century.

These views are strongly criticized by William G. Dever, Helga Weippert, Amihai Mazar and Amnon Ben-Tor.

Andr Lemaire states in Ancient Israel: From Abraham to the Roman Destruction of the Temple that the principal points of the biblical tradition with Solomon as generally trustworthy, as does Kenneth Kitchen, who argue that Solomon ruled over a comparatively wealthy “mini-empire”, rather than a small city-state, so consider this sum to be a rather modest amount of money. Mr. Kitchen calculates that over a 30 year period such a kingdom might have accumulated from this up to 500 tons of gold, which is small when compared to other examples, such as the 1,180 tons of gold that Alexander the Great took from Susa. Likewise, the magnitude of Solomon’s temple is considered excessively large by some, for example, Finkelstein; however, others, such as Kenneth Kitchen, consider it a reasonable and typically sized structure for the region at the time.

William G. Dever states “that we now have direct Bronze and Iron Age parallels for every feature of the ‘Solomonic temple’ as described in the Hebrew Bible”.

The archaeological remains that are still considered to actually date from the time of Solomon are notable for the fact that Canaanite material culture appears to have continued unabated; there is a distinct lack of magnificent empire, or cultural development – indeed comparing pottery from areas traditionally assigned to Israel with that of the Philistines points to the Philistines having been significantly more sophisticated. However there is a lack of physical evidence of its existence, despite some archaeological work in the area. This is not unexpected as the area was devastated by the Babylonians, then rebuilt and destroyed several times. Also it should be noted that little archaeological excavation has been conducted around the area known as the Temple Mount; in what is thought to be the foundation of Solomon’s Temple as attempts to do so are met with protest from adherents to the Muslim and Jewish faiths.

From a critical point of view, Solomon’s building of a temple for Yahweh should not be seen as an act resulting from particular devotion to Yahweh, since Solomon is also described as erecting temples for a number of other deities (1 Kings 11:4). Solomon’s apparent initial devotion to Yahweh appearing in for example his dedication prayer (1 Kings 8:14-66) are seen by some textual scholars as a product of a much later writer, Solomon being credited with the views only after Jerusalem had actually become the religious centre of the kingdom (rather than, for example, Shiloh, or Bethel). Some textual scholars consider the authorship of passages such as these in the Books of Kings to be separate from the remainder of the text, and consider these passages to be probably the result of the Deuteronomist. Such views have been challenged by other textual scholars who maintain that there are evidences that these passages in Kings are derived from official court records from the time of Solomon and from other contemporaneous writings that were incorporated into the canonical books of Kings.

Chronological notes

Main article: Edwin R. Thiele

Biblical scholars who believe in a historical Solomon argue that his regnal dates can be derived by independent methods: The division of the kingdom following Solomon’s death occurred at some time in the year beginning in Nisan (in the spring) of 931 BCE, as argued by Edwin Thiele, so that his fourth year would have begun in Tishri (in the fall) of 968/967 BCE. Solomon’s fourth year, in which Temple construction allegedly began, is calculated by modern scholars from the Tyrian king list of Menander as the year 968 BCE without the use of biblical texts. Edward Lipinski suggests that the length of Solomon’s reign, which is unknown, would have likely been 20 to 25 years starting ca. 956/5 or 951/0.

Solomon’s Pools

Main article: Solomon’s Pools

View inside a Roman aqueduct from Solomon’s Pools to Jerusalem

Solomon’s Pools are located near the town of al-Khader about 5 miles southwest of Bethlehem. They are named after the Biblical Solomon, probably because of his mention in Ecclesiastes 2.6, that “I made myself pools from which to water the forest of growing trees”. However the pools of more recent evidence were probably the work of the Romans under Herod the Great to provide source water for the aqueduct built to supply water to Bethlehem and to Jerusalem where it terminated under the Temple Mount. These source pools consist of three open cisterns, each at different elevations, fed from an underground spring. The total water capacity is about 3 million gallons (about 10 million liters).

Discovery of copper mines

In 2008, excavations in the south of Jordan revealed ancient copper mines that were radiocarbon-dated to the chronological time of Solomon. This discovery raised the question of whether the mines were part of Solomon’s kingdom.

Jewish scriptures

King Solomon is one of the central Biblical figures in Jewish heritage that have lasting religious, national and political aspects. As the constructor of the First Temple in Jerusalem and last ruler of the united Kingdom of Israel before its division into the northern Kingdom of Israel and the southern Kingdom of Judah, Solomon is associated with the peak “golden age” of the independent Kingdom of Israel as well as a source of judicial and religious wisdom. According to Jewish tradition, King Solomon wrote three books of the Bible:

Mishlei (Book of Proverbs), a collection of fables and wisdom of life

Kohelet (Ecclesiastes), a book of contemplation and his self reflection.

Shir ha-Shirim (Song of Songs), a chronicle of erotic love (there are contrasting opinions whether its subject is a woman or God).

The Hebrew word “To Solomon” (which can also be translated as “by Solomon”) appears in the title of two hymns in the book of Psalms (Tehillim), suggesting to some that Solomon wrote them.

In modern Israel, the extent of the First Temple Solomonic empire and Second Temple Hasmonean and Herodian kingdoms, is relied upon by nationalists who support an exclusive Israeli-Jewish territorial claim to the entire Land of Israel.

Religions and Solomon

Christianity

Russian icon of King Solomon. He is depicted holding a model of the Temple. (18th century, iconostasis of Kizhi monastery, Russia).

Christianity has traditionally accepted the historical existence of Solomon, though some modern Christian scholars have also questioned at least his authorship of those biblical texts ascribed to him. Such disputes tend to divide Christians into traditionalist and modernist camps.

Of the two genealogies of Jesus given in the Gospels, Matthew mentions Solomon, but Luke does not. Jesus mentions Solomon twice. The first reference is the famous simile of Matthew 6:28-29 and Luke 12:27, in which Jesus compares the lilies of the field with “Solomon in his glory”. In the second reference Jesus alludes to the Queen of Sheba’s visit to the court of David (Matthew 12:42, Luke 11:31). Saint Stephen, in his testimony before the Sanhedrin, mentions Solomon’s construction of the Temple (Acts 7:47).

In the Eastern Orthodox Church, Solomon is commemorated as a saint, with the title of “Righteous Prophet and King”. His feast day is celebrated on the Sunday of the Holy Forefathers (two Sundays before the Great Feast of the Nativity of the Lord).

The staunchly Catholic King Philip II of Spain sought to model himself after King Solomon. Statues of King David and Solomon stand on either side of the entrance to the basilica of El Escorial, Philip’s palace, and Solomon is also depicted in a great fresco at the center of El Escorial’s library. Philip identified the warrior-king David with his own father Charles V, and himself sought to emulate the thoughtful and logical character which he perceived in Solomon. Moreover, Escorial’s structure was inspired by that of Solomon’s Temple.

Freemasonry

According to the doctrines of Freemasonry, Freemasons were involved in the building of Solomon’s Temple.

Islam

Main article Islamic view of Solomon

See also Biblical narratives and the Qur’an

Solomon also appears in the Qur’an, where he is called in Arabic, which is transliterated in English variously as Sulayman, Suleiman, Sulaimaan etc. The Qur’an refers to Sulayman as the son of David (Arabic: Dawud, Dawood, or Dawoud), a prophet and a great ruler imparted by God with tremendous wisdom, favor, and special powers (like his father). The Qur’an states that Sulayman ruled not only people, but also hosts of Jinn, was able to understand the language of the birds and ants, and to see some of the hidden glory in the world that was not accessible to most other human beings. Ruling a large kingdom that extended south into Yemen, via Queen of Sheba who accepted Solomon’s prophethood and religion. He was famed throughout the lands for his wisdom and fair judgments. In particular, the Qur’an denies that Solomon ever turned away from God.

And they followed what the Shayatin(devils) chanted of sorcery in the reign of Sulaiman, and Sulaiman was not an unbeliever, but the Shayatin(devils) disbelieved, they teach people sorcery and such things that came down to the two angels at Babel, Harut and Marut, yet they(the two Angels) taught no person until they had said to them, “Surely, we are only a trial, therefore do not be a disbeliever.” So they learn from them(the two Angels) that by which they might cause a separation between a man and his wife; and they cannot hurt with it any one except with Allah’s permission, and they learned what harmed them and did not profit them, and certainly they know that he who bought it should have no share of good in the hereafter and evil was the price for which they sold their souls, had they but known this. (Holy Quran, chapter 2.102)

Solomon is said to have been given control over various things, such as the wind, and transportation. Thus the Qur’an says,

And to Solomon (We subjected) the wind, its morning (stride from sunrise till midnoon) was a month’s (journey), and its afternoon (stride from the midday decline of the sun to sunset) was a month’s (journey i.e. in one day he could travel two months’ journey). And We caused a fount of (molten) brass to flow for him, and there were jinn that worked in front of him, by the Leave of his Lord, And whosoever of them turned aside from Our Command, We shall cause him to taste of the torment of the blazing Fire. Quran 34:12

And before Sulayman were marshaled his hosts,- of Jinns and men and birds, and they were all kept in order and ranks. Quran 27:17

And Solomon, accordingly grateful of God, says:

“O ye people! We have been taught the speech of birds, and on us has been bestowed from everything: this is indeed the Grace manifest (from God).” Quran 27:16

According to the Qur’an, the death of Solomon held a lesson to be learned:

Then, when We decreed (Solomon’s) death, nothing showed them his death except a little worm of the earth, which kept (slowly) gnawing away at his staff: so when he fell down, the Jinns saw plainly that if they had known the unseen, they would not have tarried in the humiliating Penalty (of their Task). Quran 34:14

According to Muslim tradition, when Solomon died he was standing watching the work of his Jinn, while leaning on his cane. There he silently died, but did not fall. He remained in this position, and the Jinn, thinking he was still alive watching them work, kept working. But termites were eating the cane, so that the body of Solomon fell after forty days. Thereafter, the Jinn (along with all humans) regretted that they did not know more than God had allotted them to know.

Fictional accounts and legends

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One Thousand and One Nights

A well-known story in the One Thousand and One Nights describes a genie who had displeased King Solomon and was punished by being locked in a bottle and thrown into the sea. Since the bottle was sealed with Solomon’s seal, the genie was helpless to free himself, until freed many centuries later by a fisherman who discovered the bottle.

Angels and magic

According to the Rabbinical literature, on account of his modest request for wisdom only, Solomon was rewarded with riches and an unprecedentedly glorious realm, which extended over the upper world inhabited by the angels and over the whole of the terrestrial globe with all its inhabitants, including all the beasts, fowl, and reptiles, as well as the demons and spirits. His control over the demons, spirits, and animals augmented his splendor, the demons bringing him precious stones, besides water from distant countries to irrigate his exotic plants. The beasts and fowl of their own accord entered the kitchen of Solomon’s palace, so that they might be used as food for him, and extravagant meals for him were prepared daily by each of his 700 wives and 300 concubines, with the thought that perhaps the king would feast that day in her house.

Seal of Solomon

A magic ring called the “Seal of Solomon” was supposedly given to Solomon, and gave him power over demons. The magical symbol said to have been on the Seal of Solomon which made it work is now better known as the Star of David. Asmodeus, king of demons, was one day, according to the classical Rabbis, captured by Benaiah using the ring, and was forced to remain in Solomon’s service. In one tale, Asmodeus brought a man with two heads from under the earth to show Solomon; the man, unable to return, married a woman from Jerusalem and had seven sons, six of whom resembled the mother, while one resembled the father in having two heads. After their father’s death, the son with two heads claimed two shares of the inheritance, arguing that he was two men; Solomon, owing to his huge wisdom, decided that the son with two heads was only one man. The Seal of Solomon, in some legends known as the Ring of Aandaleeb, was a highly sought after symbol of power. In several legends, different groups or individuals attempted to steal it or attain it in some manner.

Solomon and Asmodeus

One legend concerning Asmodeus goes on to state that Solomon one day asked Asmodeus what could make demons powerful over man, and Asmodeus asked to be freed and given the ring so that he could demonstrate; Solomon agreed but Asmodeus threw the ring into the sea and it was swallowed by a fish. Asmodeus then swallowed the king, stood up fully with one wing touching heaven and the other earth, and spat out Solomon to a distance of 400 miles. The Rabbis claim this was a divine punishment for Solomon having failed to follow three divine commands, and Solomon was forced to wander from city to city, until he eventually arrived in an Ammonite city where he was forced to work in the king’s kitchens. Solomon gained a chance to prepare a meal for the Ammonite king, which the king found so impressive that the previous cook was sacked and Solomon put in his place; the king’s daughter, Naamah, subsequently fell in love with Solomon, but the family (thinking Solomon a commoner) disapproved, so the king decided to kill them both by sending them into the desert. Solomon and the king daughter wandered the desert until they reached a coastal city, where they bought a fish to eat, which just happened to be the one which had swallowed the magic ring. Solomon was then able to regain his throne and expel Asmodeus. (The element of a ring thrown into the sea and found back in a fish’s belly earlier appeared in Herodotus’ account of Polycrates of Samos).

In another familiar version of the legend of the Seal of Solomon, Asmodeus disguises himself. In some myths, he’s disguised as King Solomon himself, while in more frequently heard versions he’s disguised as a falcon, calling himself Gavyn (Gavinn or Gavin), one of King Solomon trusted friends. The concealed Asmodeus tells travelers who have ventured up to King Solomon’s grand lofty palace that the Seal of Solomon was thrown into the sea. He then convinces them to plunge in and attempt to retrieve it, for if they do they would take the throne as king.

Artifacts

Other magical items attributed to Solomon are his key and his Table. The latter was said to be held in Toledo, Spain during the Visigothic rule and was part of the loot taken by Tarik ibn Ziyad during the Umayyad Conquest of Iberia, according to Ibn Abd-el-Hakem’s History of the Conquest of Spain. The former appears in the title of the Lesser Key of Solomon, a grimoire whose framing tale is Solomon capturing demons using his ring, and forcing them to explain themselves to him.

Other forms of Solomon legend describe Solomon as having had a flying carpet that was 60 miles square, and could travel so fast that it could get from Damascus to Medina within a day. One day, due to Solomon exhibiting pride, the wind shook the carpet and caused 40,000 men to fall from it; Solomon on being told by the wind why this had happened, felt ashamed. Another day Solomon was flying over an ant-infested valley and overheard an ant warning its fellow ants to hide lest Solomon destroy them; Solomon desired to ask the ant a question, but was told it was not becoming for the interrogator to be above and the interrogated below. Solomon then lifted the ant above the valley, but the ant said it was not fitting that Solomon should sit on a throne while the ant remained on the ground, so Solomon placed the ant upon his hand, and asked it whether there was any one in the world greater than he. The ant replied that she was much greater as otherwise God would not have sent him there to place it upon his hand; this offended Solomon and he threw the ant down reminding it who he was, but the ant told him that it knew Solomon was created from a corrupted drop, causing Solomon to feel ashamed.

Angels

Angels also help out Solomon in building the Temple; though not by choice. The edifice was, according to rabbinical legend, throughout miraculously constructed, the large, heavy stones rising to and settling in their respective places of themselves. The general opinion of the Rabbis is that Solomon hewed the stones by means of a shamir, a mythical worm whose mere touch cleft rocks. According to Midrash Tehillim, the shamir was brought from paradise by Solomon’s eagle; but most of the rabbis state that Solomon was informed of the worm’s haunts by Asmodeus. The shamir had been entrusted by the prince of the sea to the mountain cock alone, and the cock had sworn to guard it well, but Solomon’s men found the bird’s nest, and covered it with glass. When the bird returned, it used the shamir to break the glass, whereupon the men scared the bird, causing it to drop the worm, which the men could then bring to Solomon.

Solomon in the Kabbalah

Early adherents of the Kabbalah portray Solomon as having sailed through the air on a throne of light placed on an eagle, which brought him near the heavenly gates as well as to the dark mountains behind which the fallen angels Uzza and Azzael were chained; the eagle would rest on the chains, and Solomon, using the magic ring, would compel the two angels to reveal every mystery he desired to know. Solomon is also portrayed as forcing demons to take Solomon’s friends, including Hiram, on day return trips to hell.

The palace without entrance

According to one legend, while traveling magically, Solomon noticed a magnificent palace to which there appeared to be no entrance. He ordered the demons to climb to the roof and see if they could discover any living being within the building but the demons only found an eagle, which said that it was 700 years old, but that it had never seen an entrance. An elder brother of the eagle, 900 years old, was then found, but it also did not know the entrance. The eldest brother of these two birds, which was 1,300 years old, then declared it had been informed by its father that the door was on the west side, but that it had become hidden by sand drifted by the wind. Having discovered the entrance, Solomon found an idol inside that had in its mouth a silver tablet saying in Greek (a language not thought by modern scholars to have existed 1000 years before the time of Solomon) that the statue was of Shaddad, the son of ‘Ad, and that it had reigned over a million cities, rode on a million horses, had under it a million vassals, and slew a million warriors, yet it could not resist the angel of death.

Throne

Solomon’s throne is described at length in Targum Sheni, which is compiled from three different sources, and in two later midrash. According to these, there were on the steps of the throne twelve golden lions, each facing a golden eagle. There were six steps to the throne, on which animals, all of gold, were arranged in the following order: on the first step a lion opposite an ox; on the second, a wolf opposite a sheep; on the third, a tiger opposite a camel; on the fourth, an eagle opposite a peacock, on the fifth, a cat opposite a cock; on the sixth, a sparrow-hawk opposite a dove. On the top of the throne was a dove holding a sparrow-hawk in its claws, symbolizing the dominion of Israel over the Gentiles. The first midrash claims that six steps were constructed because Solomon foresaw that six kings would sit on the throne, namely, Solomon, Rehoboam, Hezekiah, Manasseh, Amon, and Josiah. There was also on the top of the throne a golden candelabrum, on the seven branches of the one side of which were engraved the names of the seven patriarchs Adam, Noah, Shem, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Job, and on the seven of the other the names of Levi, Kohath, Amram, Moses, Aaron, Eldad, Medad, and, in addition, Hur (another version has Haggai). Above the candelabrum was a golden jar filled with olive-oil and beneath it a golden basin which supplied the jar with oil and on which the names of Nadab, Abihu, and Eli and his two sons were engraved. Over the throne, twenty-four vines were fixed to cast a shadow on the king’s head.

By a mechanical contrivance the throne followed Solomon wherever he wished to go. Supposedly, due to another mechanical trick, when the king reached the first step, the ox stretched forth its leg, on which Solomon leaned, a similar action taking place in the case of the animals on each of the six steps. From the sixth step the eagles raised the king and placed him in his seat, near which a golden serpent lay coiled. When the king was seated the large eagle placed the crown on his head, the serpent uncoiled itself, and the lions and eagles moved upward to form a shade over him. The dove then descended, took the scroll of the Law from the Ark, and placed it on Solomon’s knees. When the king sat, surrounded by the Sanhedrin, to judge the people, the wheels began to turn, and the beasts and fowls began to utter their respective cries, which frightened those who had intended to bear false testimony. Moreover, while Solomon was ascending the throne, the lions scattered all kinds of fragrant spices. After Solomon’s death King Shishak, when taking away the treasures of the Temple (comp. I Kings xiv. 26), carried off the throne, which remained in Egypt till Sennacherib conquered that country. After Sennacherib’s fall Hezekiah gained possession of it, but when Josiah was slain by Pharaoh Necho the latter took it away. However, according to rabbinical accounts, Necho did not know how the mechanism worked and so accidentally struck himself with one of the lions causing him to become lame; Nebuchadnezzar, into whose possession the throne subsequently came, shared a similar fate. The throne then passed to the Persians, who their king Darius was the first to sit successfully on Solomon’s throne since his death, and after that the throne passed into the possession of the Greeks and Ahasuerus.

Contemporary fiction

Literature

Solomon’s Angels: A Novel (2008), by Doreen Virtue, is a historically researched, novelized biography of Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, focusing on metaphysical aspects.

In Friedrich Drrenmatt’s Die Physiker, the physicist Mbius claims that Solomon appears to him and dictates the “theory of all possible inventions” (based on Unified Field Theory).

In The Divine Comedy the spirit of Solomon appears to Dante Alighieri in the Heaven of the Sun with other exemplars of inspired wisdom.

In Neal Stephenson’s three-volume The Baroque Cycle, 17th century alchemists like Isaac Newton believe that Solomon created a kind of “heavier” gold with mystical properties and that it was cached in the Solomon Islands where it was accidentally discovered by the crew of a wayward Spanish galleon.

In the third volume of The Baroque Cycle, The System of the World, a mysterious member of the entourage of Czar Peter I of Russia, named “Solomon Kohan” appears in early 18th century London. The czar, traveling incognito to purchase English-made ships for his navy, explains that he added him to his court after the Sack of Azov, where Kohan had been a guest of the Pasha. Solomon Kohan is later revealed as one of the extremely long-lived “Wise” (like Enoch Root), and compares a courtyard full of inventors’ workstations to “an operation I used to have in Jerusalem a long time ago,” denominating either facility as “a temple.”

Isaac Rosenberg, the famous 20th century Jewish poet, references Solomon in a great number of his early poems.

King Solomon is the subject of the Afrikaans poem ‘Salomo O Salomo’

King Solomon is depicted as a very powerful magician in The Bartimaeus Trilogy by Jonathan Stroud.

Solomon Kane is given The Staff of Solomon by his shaman friend N’longa, and uses it throughout his various adventures.

Charles Williams speaks about the Stone of Suleiman in his novel Many Dimensions (1931).

Theater

King Solomon and Shalmai the Shoemaker – An Israeli musical by Sami Gurniman, presenting a Jewish folk story about King Solomon and a shoemaker that looks exactly like him.

Solomon is a featured character in a one-act play by playwright John Guare, entitled The General of Hot Desire.

King Solomon is featured in a two-act play by Swiss playwright Friedrich Drrenmatt, entitled Die Physiker.

The Solomon Song is found in the Brecht/Weill musical The Threepenny Opera and in Brecht’s play Mother Courage and Her Children.

Film

The Kingdom of Solomon (2009) – Iranian production directed by Shahriar Bahrani

Solomon (1997) – TV drama, starring Ben Cross

Solomon (1995) – Episode of the Animated Stories of the Bible series

Solomon and Sheba (1959) – Epic film directed by King Vidor, starring Yul Brynner

There have been at least 3 English language versions filmed of the Allan Quatermain story, “King Solomon’s Mines”, written by Sir Henry Rider Haggard. “King Solomon’s Mines” is also a famous Walt Disney comic story featuring the character Uncle Scrooge, written and drawn by Carl Barks. The diamond mines of King Solomon are also sought after in the book and in the movie Congo written by Michael Crichton.

Music

Hndel composed an oratorio entitled Solomon in 1748. The story follows the basic Biblical plot.

Ernest Bloch composed a Hebraic Rhapsody for cello and orchestra entitled Schelomo, based on King Solomon.

Mort Garson synthetic music album named Solomon’s Ring.

Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band’s song ‘To all the lights in the windows’, from the 2009 album Outer South refers to Solomon.

Sean Paul’s song ‘We Be Burnin, refers to King Solomon’s grave

The Clash song ‘Straight to Hell’, from the 1982 album Combat Rock refers to King Solomon.

The Grateful Dead have a song on their 1975 album “Blues For Allah” called King Solomon’s Marbles

Immortal Technique has a song “Point Of No Return” That References King Solomon’s Temple

See also

Goetia

Solomon and Marcolf

Solomonic column

This too shall pass

References

Dever, William G. (2003). Who Were the Early Israelites and Where Did They Come From?. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. ISBN 0-8028-0975-8. 

Finkelstein, Israel; Neil Asher Silberman (2006). David and Solomon: In Search of the Bible’s Sacred Kings and the Roots of the Western Tradition. Free Press. ISBN 0-7432-4362-5. 

Finkelstein, Israel; Neil Asher Silberman (2002). The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology’s New Vision. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-0684869131. 

Thomas E. Levy & Thomas Higham (eds.), ed. The Bible and Radiocarbon Dating: Archaeology, Text and Science. London ; Oakville, CT.: Equinox Publishing (UK). ISBN 978-1845530563. OCLC 60453952. 

Dever, William G.. What Did the Biblical Writers Know and When Did They Know It?: What Archaeology Can Tell Us about the Reality of Ancient Israel. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans Pub.. ISBN 978-0802847942. OCLC 45487499. 

Kitchen, Kenneth A.. On the reliability of the Old Testament. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans. ISBN 0-8028-4960-1. 

Notes

^ a b Barton, George A.. “Temple of Solomon”. Jewish Encyclopedia. New York, NY.: Funk & Wagnalls. pp. 98101. doi:10.1038/2151043a0. http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=129&letter=T. Retrieved 2007-05-15. 

^ a b c Peter J. Leithart, A House for My Name, 157, Canon Press, 2000. ISBN 978-1-885767-169-1

^ 1 Kings 11:1-3

^ 1 Kings 14:21 and 2 Chronicles 12:13

^ a b “1 Kings 1 (ESV)”. Biblegateway.com. http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20kings%201;&version=47;. Retrieved 2010-03-03. 

^ Peter J. Leithart, A House for My Name, 164, Canon Press, 2000. ISBN 978-1-885767-169-1

^ “Jewish Encyclopedia”. Jewish Encyclopedia. http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=631&letter=S&search=Shimei. Retrieved 2010-03-03. 

^ a b “1 Kings 3 – Passage Lookup – New International Version”. BibleGateway.com. http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?book_id=11&chapter=3&version=31. Retrieved 2010-03-03. 

^ “1 Kings 10 – Passage Lookup – New International Version”. BibleGateway.com. http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?book_id=11&chapter=10&version=31. Retrieved 2010-03-03. 

^ Confirmed anew in the recent History Channel quasi-promotional production about Indiana Jones’s[citation needed] positive impact on archaeology. (released Mid-May 2008, the week before the 22 May 2008 USA release of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull) History Channel producers were shown interviewing the guardian priest, and expert discussions about the Ark were part of the fare served up.

^ a b ^ “The Kingdom of Israel”. Jewish Virtual Library. http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/Kings.html. Retrieved 2010-03-03. 

^ “Solomon, Testament of:”. JewishEncyclopedia.com. http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=897&letter=S. Retrieved 2010-03-03. 

^ Dever 2001

^ a b Finkelstein The Bible Unearthed

^ David and Solomon: In Search of the Bible’s Sacred Kings and the Roots of the Western Tradition by Israel Finkelstein and Neil Asher Silberman

^ “IBSS – The Bible – The Bible Unearthed”. Bibleandscience.com. http://www.bibleandscience.com/bible/reviews/unearthed.htm. Retrieved 2010-03-03. 

^ a b “High-precision radiocarbon dating and historical biblical archaeology in southern Jordan  PNAS”. Pnas.org. http://www.pnas.org/content/105/43/16460.full. Retrieved 2010-03-03. 

^ Archaeologist says newly found Jerusalem wall confirms biblical story of Solomon, Nir Hasson, Haaretz, Feb. 32, 2010

^ Jerusalem city wall dates back to King Solomon, Jerusalem Post, Fe. 23, 2009,

^ Finkelstein, Israel; Silberman, Neil Asher (2001). The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology’s New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts. Simon and Schuster. http://books.google.com/books?id=lu6ywyJr0CMC&printsec=frontcover&dq=finkelstein+israel+and+silberman+neil+asher+%22the+bible+unearthed%22&source=gbs_summary_r. 

^ David and Solomon: In Search of the Bible’s Sacred Kings and the Roots of the Western Tradition pp20

^ Thompson, Thomas L., 1999, The Bible in History: How Writers Create a Past, Jonathan Cape, London, ISBN 978-0224039772 p. 207

^ Dever 2001, p. 160

^ Ancient Israel: From Abraham to the Roman Destruction of the Temple, by Hershel Shanks, p113

^ Kitchen 2003, p. 135

^ a b Kitchen 2003, p. 123

^ Dever 2001, p. 145

^ “Temple Mount: Excavation Controversy”. Sacred-destinations.com. http://www.sacred-destinations.com/israel/temple-mount-excavation.htm. Retrieved 2010-03-03. 

^ ibid

^ Harrison, R. K. (1969). Introduction to the Old Testament (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans) pp. 722724.

^ Archer, G. L. (1964). A Survey of Old Testament Introduction (Chicago: Moody Press) pp. 276277.

^ Thiele, E. R. (1983) The Mysterious Numbers of the Hebrew Kings (3rd ed.; Grand Rapids: Zondevan/Kregel) pp. 193204.

^ Thiele, Mysterious Numbers p. 78.

^ J. Liver, “The Chronology of Tyre at the Beginning of the First Millennium B.C.,” Israel Exploration Journal 3 (1953) 113-120.

^ Frank Moore Cross, “An Interpretation of the Nora Stone,” Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 208 (1972) 17, n. 11.

^ William H. Barnes, Studies in the Chronology of the Divided Monarch of Israel (Atlanta, GA: Scholars Press, 1991) 29-55.

^ Lipinski, Edward On the skirts of Canaan in the Iron age Peeters Publishers ISBN 978-9042917989 p.99

^ [dead link]

^ “Pools of Solomon”. Biblelearn.com. http://www.biblelearn.com/east2983.htm. Retrieved 2010-03-03. 

^ Kiderra, Inga (2008-10-27). “King Solomon’s (Copper) Mines?”. Ucsdnews.ucsd.edu. http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/newsrel/soc/10-22KingSolomon.asp. Retrieved 2010-03-03. 

^ Ren Taylor 1. Arquitectura y Magia. Consideraciones sobre la Idea de El Escorial, Ediciones Siruela, Madrid, enhanced from monograph in Rudolph Wittkower’s 1968 festschrift. 2. Hermetism and the Mystical Architecture of the Society of Jesus in “Baroque Art: The Jesuit Contribution” by Rudolf Wittkower & Irma Jaffe

^ Gruber, Hermann (1910-10-01). “Masonry (Freemasonry)”. in Remy Lafort, Censor. The Catholic encyclopedia: an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline, and history of the Catholic Church. IX. New York: Robert Appleton Company. OCLC 1017058. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09771a.htm. Retrieved 2007-05-08. 

^ “All About Jewish Theatre – Theatre in Spotlight: Yiddishpiel Theatre Tel Aviv , Director Shmuel Atzmonircer”. Jewish-theatre.com. 2009-05-26. http://www.jewish-theatre.com/visitor/article_display.aspx?articleID=3347. Retrieved 2010-03-03. 

^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0143889/

^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0167409/

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Solomon

House of David

Regnal titles

Preceded by

David

King of the United Kingdom

of Israel and Judah

971 931 BCE

Succeeded by

Rehoboam

in Judah

Succeeded by

Jeroboam I

in Israel

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Solomon

Family and reputed relations

David  Queen of Sheba  Pharaoh’s daughter  Naamah  Rehoboam  Menelik I

Occurrences

Solomon’s Temple  Judgment of Solomon  Solomon’s Pools  Seal of Solomon

Views

Islamic view

Reputed works

Book of Wisdom  Odes of Solomon  Key of Solomon  Psalms of Solomon  Testament of Solomon  Song of Songs

Related articles

Solomonic column  United Monarchy  Davidic line

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Israelite Kings

Pre-Dynastic

Abimelech

United Monarchy

Saul  Ish-boseth  David  Solomon  Rehoboam

Northern Kingdom of Israel

Jeroboam I  Nadab  Baasha  Elah  Zimri  Omri  Ahab & Jezebel  Ahaziah  Jehoram  Jehu  Jehoahaz  Jehoash  Jeroboam II  Zechariah  Shallum  Menahem  Pekahiah  Pekah  Hoshea

Southern Kingdom of Judah

Rehoboam  Abijam  Asa  Jehoshaphat  Jehoram  Ahaziah  Athaliah  Jehoash  Amaziah  Uzziah (or Azariah)  Jotham  Ahaz  Hezekiah  Manasseh  Amon  Josiah  Jehoahaz  Jehoiakim  Jeconiah (or Jehoiachin)  Zedekiah

Hasmonean Dynasty

Simon Maccabaeus  John Hyrcanus  Aristobulus I  Alexander Jannaeus  Salome Alexandra  Hyrcanus II  Aristobulus II  Hyrcanus II  Antigonus II Mattathias

Herodian Dynasty

Herod the Great  Herod Archelaus  Herod Antipas  Herod Philip II

Italics: Disputed kingship, or kingship over only part of Israel

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Prophets in the Hebrew Bible

Pre-Patriarchs (Bible)

Abel Kenan Enoch Noah (rl) Eber

Patriarchs and Matriarchs

Abraham Isaac Jacob Sarah (rl) Rebecca Rachel Leah

Israelite prophets

in the Torah

Moses (rl) Aaron Miriam Eldad & Medad Phinehas

Prophets mentioned

in the First Prophets

Joshua Deborah Eli Elkanah Hannah Abigail Samuel Saul David Solomon Gad Nathan Jeduthun Ahiyah Elijah Elisha Shemaiah Iddo Azariah Hanani Jehu Micaiah Jahaziel Eliezer Zechariah ben Jehoiada Oded Huldah Uriah Hilkiah

Major Prophets

Isaiah (rl) Jeremiah Ezekiel Daniel (rl)

Minor Prophets

Hosea Joel Amos Obadiah Jonah (rl) Micah Nahum Habakkuk Zephaniah Haggai Zechariah Malachi

Noahide prophets

Beor Balaam Job (rl) Eliphaz Bildad Zophar Elihu

Other prophets

Amoz Beeri Baruch Buzi Mordecai Esther (rl)

Italics denote that the status as a prophet is not universally accepted. rl are articles dealing with the prophet within Rabbinic Literature.

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Linear genealogy of the first couple to Jesus according to the Bible

Generations after Creation

Adam & Eve  Seth  Enos  Kenan  Mahalalel  Jared  Enoch  Methuselah  Lamech  Noah  Shem

Patriarchs after Flood

Arpachshad  Shelah  Eber  Peleg  Reu  Serug  Nahor  Terah  Abraham  Isaac  Jacob

Nationhood to Kingship

Judah  Pharez  Hezron  Ram  Amminadab  Nahshon  Salmon  Boaz  Obed  Jesse  David  Solomon

Kingdom of Judah to Captivity

Rehoboam  Abijah  Asa  Jehoshaphat  Jehoram  Uzziah  Jotham  Ahaz  Hezekiah  Manasseh  Amon  Josiah  Jeconiah

Return to Jesus

Salathiel  Zerubbabel  Abihud  Eliakim  Azor  Sadoc  Achim  Eliud  Eleazar  Matthan  Jacob  Joseph  Jesus

Persondata

NAME

Solomon

ALTERNATIVE NAMES

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SHORT DESCRIPTION

Ruler of Israel and Judah

DATE OF BIRTH

circa 1000 BCE

PLACE OF BIRTH

Israel

DATE OF DEATH

circa 931 BCE

PLACE OF DEATH

Jerusalem, United Kingdom of Israel

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Lei believes that a more united Foshan aluminum company, no harm can focus on defense, the play guild synergy. "If you can get zero tariff, companies need to conduct an annual review by the United States."

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CCTV 3 this year? 15 party, SAIC unveiled the quality testing of Heibang water heater, a well-known foreign brands of impressively Ranking aroused great response. Electric water heaters have increased the safety of all complaints in the eighth, again became the focus of attention. Failure of these products in widespread sampling of internal wiring, grounding measures five indicators do not meet national mandatory standards, safety problems re-surfaced.

Electric water heater is the second largest security risk bad ground, or ground assault charged and a leak. In recent years major media frequently reports to the water heater leakage wounding event, the Chinese Consumer Association published heaters "consumer alert", explicitly, "When the consumer's home electrical conditions are not safe or not safe grounding device, operate should refuse to sell, refuse to install electric water heater, to fully realize the most basic social responsibility of business. " According to Haier (600 690) Water Heater Co., Ltd. with more than 30 cities in the Quality Supervision Bureau and the Consumer Association investigation carried out showed that consumption environment, the country over 7 percent of households have different levels of electrical safety hazards. This also shows that China's current power environment, most households use electric water heater makes the existence of security problems.

Poor environment for China's current power status, the positive development of Haier Water Heater Co., Ltd., after many years of successful development of innovative technology to anti-electricity wall technology to effectively solve the global problem of environmental charged. The technology won the 2003 national patent, and in the same year was listed as National Torch Program of Science and Technology to promote them, in October 2006 was officially included in the new national standard electric water heater, set on July 1 this year, the official implementation. 4 years, Haier prevent electric wall heater to protect the millions of Haier virtually the personal safety of users, making Chinese consumers the first to enjoy a safe bathing by happiness.

With the implementation of new national standard water heater approaching, 3.15 evening for some well-known foreign brand exposure, making the implementation of standards is more urgent, many consumers concerned about the safety of electric water heaters raise an unprecedented degree, they are eager to ease the use of genuine security to the water heater products. From the recent market reaction, the current developed by the Haier Group, with the safety warning system against electric wall electric water heater, home appliances market in the major outstanding critical acclaim.

Although the anti-

Haier Electric Wall has been charged in the resolution of environmental performance has been very good, but the water heater Haier has always been to "safety first" philosophy makes the water heater Haier R & D personnel has been on the road in a safe to continue exploring. Clear that the new national standard in use in the water heater, other than equipment grounding system such as the occurrence of abnormal security provisions should ensure that users, in addition, the new national standard on the technical requirements are very clear, ground system to provide emergency protective measures exception, there must be clear alarm and so on. Haier security warning system against electric wall is fully in line with new national standard requirements.

No doubt, Haier water heater is the largest contributor to the new national standard. In addition to produce products to meet the new national standard, the still emerging from the various aspects of the consumers in a surprise. Months every year in August of security reflects Haier water heater for consumer care; large-scale environmental research and water consumption survey, show the other brands do not have a sense of responsibility; to consumer safety is always top priority developed to solve environmental problems of anti-charged electric wall technology, so that consumers do not have to buck-passing between various departments to bear the pain of doing Haier water heater, create unprecedented security, safety warning system against electric wall. The system can not only solve the electricity users in harsh environment of the bath safety, but also take the initiative to find hidden power, that is charged once the home ground, or the occurrence of ground receiving FireWire upper safety problems, the unique "safecare" light will flash on the computer screen displayed "E4, at the same time buzz alarm, indicating a fault line at home. The first application of the system will be smart in the new Haier remote control version of electric water heater on the tank.

To industry: Haier remote control version of intelligent module series "anti-power wall," "security warning" on one, no doubt Haier "safety first" philosophy of the best evidence. Nowadays, rapid development in the standard of living today, people enjoy a happy life at the same time, even more than ever love and cherish life as much as possible to potential threats to the safety factors to eliminate. Fully achieve the "preventive measures" is every manufacturer, especially such as electric water heater, "and security is closely related to" the bounden duty of the manufacturer; at this point, the Haier model undoubtedly played a role in the industry.

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First, the eastern region and advantages of the status quo mold industry

Shanghai: Existing mold more than 1,500 enterprises, employing more than 70000, the annual output value of 10.5 billion yuan, an annual average growth rate of over 20% of GDP in 2010 is expected to be 200 billion yuan.

Imports 290 million U.S. dollars from the current 30% based on the compression will increase by 7 billion yuan output value of industry, exports reached 130 million U.S. dollars, in turn for the industry to increase 600 million yuan output value. Shanghai mold industry will face six major industries and key industries, especially information (IT) industry and the automotive industry, vigorously develop the IT industry, the precision magnesium alloy die-casting mold, precision injection mold; the coverage of the automotive industry mold large parts die-casting mold , precision stamping parts multi-position progressive die. In 2010, IT industry to achieve 85% localization of mold, car mold to achieve 90% localization.

According to preliminary statistics, the Shanghai production of automotive stamping, plastic, die-casting mold and so on nearly 70 enterprises, the annual output value of about 20 billion yuan. Private enterprises such as China Zhuang, Yi Feng, 1000 edge, Huang Yan, Xiang-li; joint ventures, such as Hagiwara, Visteon, Koito; Taiwan-funded enterprises such as joint-heng, Wang Xu, Tai-li Tong, Guiter and other large multi-year output value of 50 million yuan, including 10 super-yuan annual output value of enterprises, with annual growth rate of 100% of individual enterprises as Shanghai Automotive Die & Mold Industry in the main car.

The formation of car as soon as possible outside the coverage of mold design and development and manufacturing capabilities independently, Shanghai Automotive Industry Group and the nation’s largest manufacturer of motor vehicles, covering parts – sekely established a joint venture Shanghai Automotive Mold Technology Application Collie Cup Co., Ltd., established the nation’s largest Car cover mold design and manufacturing base, a total investment of 92 million U.S. dollars, an annual output of 210 large-scale mold, has been activated. Shanghai Die & Mold Industry characteristics: firm size, technological level of high, die varieties, strong interaction effects.

Zhejiang: Die & Mold Industry mainly concentrated in Ningbo and Taizhou, Ningbo City, Yuyao, Ninghai, and Yinzhou Cixi produce plastic molds, die-casting mold Beilun to the main; Elephant and Zhoushan in the main casting and stamping dies.

Taizhou Huangyan Mold enterprises are mainly concentrated in and road and bridge, plastic mold in the majority. Zhejiang tooling industry a number of distinctive features: First, mold manufacturing enterprises are almost always private; second is the relative concentration of mold companies, mold has become the market; third die to meet user needs at different levels at the same time, high levels of mold in the rapid development of and has possession of a large proportion of; 4 through multiple business, has emerged in a number of high-quality key focus of the enterprise; 5 is already a natural form the specialized division of labor, the main business characteristics of obvious; 6 is a mold industry developments on the local and surrounding forward the development of regional industrial obvious effect.

Jiangsu: Suzhou Industrial Development mold faster, there are all kinds of mold factory has nearly 1000, with annual sales of about 50 billion yuan, mold industry has become one of the city’s emerging industries. Japan, Korea, Singapore, France, the Netherlands, the United States and China’s Taiwan, Hong Kong, a wholly-owned, joint ventures, many private enterprises have a lot of mold. Suzhou Lampe casting, mold and other enterprises Engaru major automobile components such as engines and wheels die-casting molds and mold; Zhongshan University Mold Kunshan, Kunshan Precision Mold standard parts, Kunshan, Huaxing Die-oriented items such as large-scale enterprise specialized in producing all kinds of mold , mold-oriented pieces, mold springs and other standard parts.

Anhui: China currently has a number of high-profile mold products, such as washing machines and air conditioners of large-cavity injection mold, refrigerator Plastic foam mold, motor stator and rotor lamination of high-speed progressive die and so on, and some market share as high as 30 % or more. Automotive structural parts and Interior Decoration Mold has been stable for the Shanghai Volkswagen developed the new model; rubber tire molds major domestic tire companies have been recognized; mold standard parts, mold material base has been developed.

Mold of a dynamic private enterprises are rising mold aggregation region is taking shape. Chuzhou City has become a major refrigerator Blister foam mold manufacturing base is a rubber mold Ningguo gathering areas, Xuanzhou and Wuhu City, in order to sheet stamping dies mainly important in automotive parts manufacturing and supply base thick Bengbu progressive die stamping unique board, the city has in the injection mold, automobile mold and rapid tooling have certain advantages.

Shandong: Mold industries are state-owned and private enterprises go hand in hand situation, Haier, Hisense’s white goods production molds in a leading position in China, the products reach the international advanced level, Haier molds to the automotive company is a large injection molds direction, the output value reached 350 million yuan . Love almost all exports of open mold. Fukuda Weifang mold, ink Guiter, Terry, Yantai steam mold, hsuhai steam mode, Shouguang Wan Long and a number of automobile mold enterprise, with a total market accounted for 40% of Shandong Province.

Heroic Machinery original production of large-scale all-steel radial tire rolling die, the output value of 2.5 billion, also a large number of export. Another Wantong mold company is only output on the two-year-old 2,000 million for the development of private enterprises out of a new road. Is now the province has formed a complete production chain supporting the car dies.

Fujian: Mold mainly based appliance injection mold and MOLD, of which Xoceco, HTC, Fuk mold, Jin Jiang Guangyu, East Fort, Shin Kong, W Asia, Xin-Wen Da Mai Shide as the representatives of companies the mold has become a well-known companies. Some mold business has reached international advanced level.

Fujian Province has become China’s top ten provinces and cities in import and export molds, one in 2004 in Fujian Province mold 75.13 million U.S. dollars of imports and exports 13.02 million U.S. dollars die, die first half of 2005 imports of 26.63 million U.S. dollars, 7.85 million U.S. dollars of export mold. In addition, Fujian mold large-scale training of human resources, such as Fuzhou University, Fujian, Engineering, Fujian College of Information Technology. Fujian Provincial mold has witnessed a booming scene.

Second, the western region the advantages of mold industry

Sichuan Province: the province has more than 2,000 mold companies, mold annual production value of nearly 30 million, distributed in the machinery, electronics, military, aerospace, nuclear industry and light industry, transportation and other fields. China’s industrial hinterland of Sichuan was originally a large number of military industry enterprises have advanced means of production and strong technical force, and therefore the emergence of a large number of enterprises with advanced levels of mold, such as the macro-ming pairs of new, Dongfang Electrical Machinery, aerospace molding , Hang Fa tooling, into a flying gas model, Hing light mold, Changhong Machinery Factory, Huafeng radio factory, Guangyuan 4512 factory, kyoko tube factory, Tianxing Instrument Factory, etc., private enterprises such as Tianyuan dies, the fly dies, Shang mold and so on, in particular, foreign-funded enterprises, such as He ratio, Polygon, Molex and other companies to join even more powerful. Are located in Chengdu, Deyang, Mianyang, Leshan and so on.

They have abundant scientific research strength is relying on the production, the manufacture of automobile parts mold, stamping mold, plastic mold, die casting mold, plastic mold, connectors, and many reached the advanced level at home and abroad. In particular, Yibin Pouches mold of hardware and software companies to pursue excellence and development of manufacturing capacity, annual production value of hundred million, reflects the strength of mold industry in Sichuan Province and prospects.

Its advantages are: 1, there is a strong economic base; 2, there is a strong development capabilities; 3, there are exquisite processing technology; 4 has a broad mold market; 5, there is a high degree of government attention and support.

Chongqing: China’s old industrial bases, machinery, military, instrumentation and other industries strong. In recent years, the automobile, motorcycle industry, the rise of the promotion of stamping, plastic, die-casting molds and other high-speed development. Auto production and not only in supporting the plant has a strong mold manufacturing strength, but also in the Jiangbei area of three acres of established mold industrial park is attracting a large number of domestic and foreign companies stationed in mold, will promote greater development of mold industry in Chongqing .

Advantages are: 1, there is a solid industrial base mold, 2, there is a strong market demand, 3, is rich in human resources, 4, a perfect matching system, 5, has a strong industrial atmosphere.

Since Sichuan and Chongqing to both the development of modern manufacturing industry, the realization of new-type industrialization as a regional economic development focus, the two sides respectively, the field of electronic information, precision molds and automotive industry mainly in medium and large complex molds, resulting in a strong complementarity nature, such as the eastern part of strengthening the joint energy and can produce a greater complementarity.

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   A kind of toothpaste on the toothbrush can automatically access to national invention patent and utility model patents, the invention is said to be following the manual toothbrush, electric toothbrush yet another breakthrough in the traditional post-new invention, the industry source said that the integration of toothpaste, toothbrush idea is a revolutionary toothbrush design, it is, and can reduce the use of toothpaste in the process of waste, and reducing the packaging of toothpaste-related pollution, he was exhausted after the toothpaste can be used to make ordinary toothbrush, you can use can also carry home use, the market price is moderate, is a patented product for the masses. His use of high-quality materials are all used raw materials consistent with green environmental protection, while ensuring that products conform to modern ideas about consumption. he will lead the new concept of oral health care.

    It is understood that this new patented toothbrush made from Hunan in the United wealth Chen Industrial Co., Ltd. Mr. Long Mingfu invention, and through three years to complete the product from drawing board to the product process, he said that with the general appearance of the toothbrush toothbrush compared with, in addition to one more rubber between the bristles brush (expansion switch) and the handle on one more button on the cream, the other and ordinary toothbrushes are similar, comparing the past, design patents, and eventually solved both toothbrush designed to be simple , but also a very good automatic technical difficulties on the paste, according to design, ensuring good looks, under the premise of the use of light and nimble, with a special technology to make toothbrush toothpaste can be used within a month.

    "The market is always right the first person to enter the most lucrative returns," Mr. Long also said that based on this theorem, the information shows that: toothbrushes, a huge market and consumption potential. Several hundred billion in annual global consumption, as toothbrushes are consumer goods, commodities saturation problem it does not exist, so the prospect of a broad brush, which can now patented products have been domestic-related medical departments test.

    Related to industry insiders say, the product development process to save resources and avoid pollution regarded placed top priority, for such a new invention of natural economic laws in line with the market and consumers welcome in this product to the people to generally accepted also need a process.

    Mr. Long also concluded that that the promotion of this patent is not only suitable for people at home to use while making out the use, also suitable for hotel, hotels, special groups such as the use of force, without the consent of patent Toshihito premise, and no domestic related companies not entitled to the production of such toothbrushes.

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The Enterprise Finance Guarantee scheme (EFGS) is designed to is to boost lending to small and medium sized businesses. We look at whether it has been sucessful.

The Small Firms Loan Guarantee Scheme (SFLG) was closed in January 2009 and replaced by the Enterprise Finance Guarantee scheme (EFGS). The aim of the EFGS (and indeed the SFLG before it) is to boost lending to small and medium sized businesses. The company directors will normally have to provide guarantees for 25% of the loan, with the government guaranteeing up to 75%.

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The Enterprise Finance Guarantee scheme (EFGS) is designed to is to boost lending to small and medium sized businesses. The question is has it worked?

The Small Firms Loan Guarantee Scheme (SFLG) was closed in January 2009 and replaced by the Enterprise Finance Guarantee scheme (EFGS). The idea behind the EFGS (and indeed the SFLG before it) is to boost lending to small and medium sized businesses. The company directors will normally have to provide guarantees for 25% of the loan, with the government guaranteeing up to 75%.

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80s last century, the rage in Europe, the Puma, Nike and other rising stars due to the strong impact of the retreat. Fortunately, its leader for this brilliant "sneakers" to find the "fashion" a new way. While other sports shoes for various sports brands to continue to develop more and more time to professional sports shoes.

HC Apparel Network  Follow the trend has been applied successfully imitate the magic has failed, then, the Chinese sports goods market will face competition from brand culture and personality. For Li Ning, etc. All the leading sports brand, the internationalization is the next stop.

Copycat imitation of the once-tested magic has failed, then, the Chinese sports goods market will face competition from brand culture and personality.

Chinese sports circles about the birth of another super-rich! He is neither Nike darling, just perfect in the Shanghai Golden Grand Prix back trapeze Liu Xiang of China, nor is it into the 35 million U.S. dollars on a giant Yao Ming, but 1984 was Nike Bouncing off of Xu Jingnan family.

If nothing else, controlled by the family of Xu Jingnan Olympic sports brand in the Sept. 29 debut of Hong Kong Stock Exchange. Lower limit to issue 3.55 HK dollars per share, after market, holding 61% stake in Olympic Hsu's family's property will not be less than 45 billion.

Peak will be the first six landed in Hong Kong's domestic capital markets athletic footwear and Clothing Manufacturer. Previously, China Dongxiang, Li Ning, Anta, special steps and 361 degrees already listed in the excellent market performance driven, these are mostly from Fujian, sports brand, to become Hong Kong's capital market, a unique landscape.

Ning movement from birth to growth of a store

By the legendary athletes, Beijing Olympic torch bearer Li Ning, founded by Li Ning brand, is the first landed in Hong Kong is China's most powerful sports brand. Was born in 1990, the brand Li Ning Li Ning will and its founder as a World Series in the focus of China's most eye-catching.

Li Ning brand's first debut, is a sponsor of the Asian Games in 1990, appeared on behalf of Beijing, and cheap to obtain the right to host the Asian Games torch relay activities. Year in August, as the athletes, wearing a white Li Ning Li Ning Sportswear , Took part in the torch relay in Qinghai-Tibet Plateau activities.

Planning for this successful, "Li Ning" brand by a wide range of concerns. It is reported that about 2 million people directly involved in the Asian Games flame transfer process, 2.5 billion Chinese and foreign viewers learn from the media, "Li Ning." Li Ning, an occasion to the Asian Games, overnight became popular in China, turned out to. Asian Games closing soon, the newly established "Li Ning received a 15 million yuan on the order."

Then, the brand Li Ning Li Ning himself with ultra-high popularity in China, and personal influence, and in China's extensive network of contacts sports field, a virtual monopoly on all the major events of resources. From 1992 to replace foreign brands, a special prize of Chinese sports delegation equipment provider, visit Barcelona Olympic moment, then in 1996, 2000, 2004, for three consecutive years to become Olympic Games Olympic sponsor.

Li Ning brand is blowing at the moment with the Chinese "national brand" and "patriotic" ideas of the cyclone, quickly becoming the "patriotic spirit" and "national brand" a symbol of China as the most successful campaign so far brand.

According to Li Ning's recently released semi-annual report showed that in 2009 one? In June, its revenues increased 32.4% to 4.052 billion yuan, net profit rose 41.6% to 473 million and operating profit for the first time in more than the world the second-largest sporting goods maker Adidas. Also, do the same growth rate, Li Ning also likely to more than 80 billion Sell Income, overtake Adidas as the Chinese market after the sports brand Nike.

If the Li Ning brand popularity, is relying on "institutional" and "national feeling", then, represented by Anta Fujian "grassroots" movement brand of the rise is the "market" masterpiece.

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