שְׁלֹמֹה
Solomon
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- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
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- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H8010 appears in the Book of 1 Kings — 139 distinct verses. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
1 Kings
- 1 Kings 1:10 שְׁלֹמֹ֥ה n Proper but Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah, and the mighty men, and Solomon his brother, he didn't call.
- 1 Kings 1:11 שְׁלֹמֹה֙ n Proper Then Nathan spoke to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon, saying, Haven't you heard that Adonijah the son of Haggith reigns, and David our lord doesn't know it?
- 1 Kings 1:12 שְׁלֹמֹֽה n Proper Now therefore come, please let me give you counsel, that you may save your own life, and the life of your son Solomon.
- 1 Kings 1:13 שְׁלֹמֹ֤ה n Proper Go and get you in to king David, and tell him, Didn't you, my lord, king, swear to your handmaid, saying, Assuredly Solomon your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne? why then does Adonijah reign?
- 1 Kings 1:17 שְׁלֹמֹ֥ה n Proper She said to him, My lord, you swore by Yahweh your God to your handmaid, [saying], Assuredly Solomon your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne.
- 1 Kings 1:19 וְ/לִ/שְׁלֹמֹ֥ה conj + prep + n Proper and he has slain oxen and fatlings and sheep in abundance, and has called all the sons of the king, and Abiathar the priest, and Joab the captain of the host; but he hasn't called Solomon your servant.
- 1 Kings 1:21 שְׁלֹמֹ֖ה n Proper Otherwise it will happen, when my lord the king shall sleep with his fathers, that I and my son Solomon shall be counted offenders.
- 1 Kings 1:26 וְ/לִ/שְׁלֹמֹ֥ה conj + prep + n Proper But he hasn't called me, even me your servant, and Zadok the priest, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and your servant Solomon.
- 1 Kings 1:30 שְׁלֹמֹ֤ה n Proper most assuredly as I swore to you by Yahweh, the God of Israel, saying, Assuredly Solomon your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne in my place; most assuredly so will I do this day.
- 1 Kings 1:33 שְׁלֹמֹ֣ה n Proper The king said to them, Take with you the servants of your lord, and cause Solomon my son to ride on my own mule, and bring him down to Gihon:
- 1 Kings 1:34 שְׁלֹמֹֽה n Proper and let Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet anoint him there king over Israel; and blow you the trumpet, and say, [Long] live king Solomon.
- 1 Kings 1:37 שְׁלֹמֹ֑ה n Proper As Yahweh has been with my lord the king, even so be he with Solomon, and make his throne greater than the throne of my lord king David.
- 1 Kings 1:38 שְׁלֹמֹ֔ה n Proper So Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites and the Pelethites, went down, and caused Solomon to ride on king David's mule, and brought him to Gihon.
- 1 Kings 1:39 שְׁלֹמֹ֑ה שְׁלֹמֹֽה n Proper n Proper Zadok the priest took the horn of oil out of the Tent, and anointed Solomon. They blew the trumpet; and all the people said, [Long] live king Solomon.
- 1 Kings 1:43 שְׁלֹמֹֽה n Proper Jonathan answered Adonijah, Most assuredly our lord king David has made Solomon king:
- 1 Kings 1:46 שְׁלֹמֹ֔ה n Proper Also Solomon sits on the throne of the kingdom.
- 1 Kings 1:47 שְׁלֹמֹה֙ n Proper Moreover the king's servants came to bless our lord king David, saying, Your God make the name of Solomon better than your name, and make his throne greater than your throne: and the king bowed himself on the bed.
- 1 Kings 1:50 שְׁלֹמֹ֑ה n Proper Adonijah feared because of Solomon; and he arose, and went, and caught hold on the horns of the altar.
- 1 Kings 1:51 לִ/שְׁלֹמֹה֙ שְׁלֹמֹ֑ה שְׁלֹמֹ֔ה prep + n Proper n Proper n Proper It was told Solomon, saying, Behold, Adonijah fears king Solomon; for, behold, he has laid hold on the horns of the altar, saying, Let king Solomon swear to me first that he will not kill his servant with the sword.
- 1 Kings 1:52 שְׁלֹמֹ֔ה n Proper Solomon said, If he shall show himself a worthy man, there shall not a hair of him fall to the earth; but if wickedness be found in him, he shall die.
- 1 Kings 1:53 שְׁלֹמֹ֗ה שְׁלֹמֹ֑ה שְׁלֹמֹ֖ה n Proper n Proper n Proper So king Solomon sent, and they brought him down from the altar. He came and did obeisance to king Solomon; and Solomon said to him, Go to your house.
- 1 Kings 2:1 שְׁלֹמֹ֥ה n Proper Now the days of David drew near that he should die; and he charged Solomon his son, saying,
- 1 Kings 2:12 וּ/שְׁלֹמֹ֕ה conj + n Proper Solomon sat on the throne of David his father; and his kingdom was established greatly.
- 1 Kings 2:13 שְׁלֹמֹ֔ה n Proper Then Adonijah the son of Haggith came to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon. She said, Come you peaceably? He said, Peaceably.
- 1 Kings 2:17 לִ/שְׁלֹמֹ֣ה prep + n Proper He said, Please speak to Solomon the king (for he will not tell you 'no'), that he give me Abishag the Shunammite as wife.
- 1 Kings 2:19 שְׁלֹמֹ֔ה n Proper Bathsheba therefore went to king Solomon, to speak to him for Adonijah. The king rose up to meet her, and bowed himself to her, and sat down on his throne, and caused a throne to be set for the king's mother; and she sat on his right hand.
- 1 Kings 2:22 שְׁלֹמֹ֜ה n Proper King Solomon answered his mother, Why do you ask Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? ask for him the kingdom also; for he is my elder brother; even for him, and for Abiathar the priest, and for Joab the son of Zeruiah.
- 1 Kings 2:23 שְׁלֹמֹ֔ה n Proper Then king Solomon swore by Yahweh, saying, God do so to me, and more also, if Adonijah has not spoken this word against his own life.
- 1 Kings 2:25 שְׁלֹמֹ֔ה n Proper King Solomon sent by Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he fell on him, so that he died.
- 1 Kings 2:27 שְׁלֹמֹה֙ n Proper So Solomon thrust out Abiathar from being priest to Yahweh, that he might fulfill the word of Yahweh, which he spoke concerning the house of Eli in Shiloh.
- 1 Kings 2:29 שְׁלֹמֹ֗ה שְׁלֹמֹ֜ה n Proper n Proper It was told king Solomon, Joab is fled to the Tent of Yahweh, and, behold, he is by the altar. Then Solomon sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, saying, Go, fall on him.
- 1 Kings 2:41 לִ/שְׁלֹמֹ֑ה prep + n Proper It was told Solomon that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem to Gath, and was come again.
- 1 Kings 2:45 שְׁלֹמֹ֖ה n Proper But king Solomon shall be blessed, and the throne of David shall be established before Yahweh forever.
- 1 Kings 2:46 שְׁלֹמֹֽה n Proper So the king commanded Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he went out, and fell on him, so that he died. The kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon.
- 1 Kings 3:1 שְׁלֹמֹ֔ה n Proper Solomon made affinity with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and took Pharaoh's daughter, and brought her into the city of David, until he had made an end of building his own house, and the house of Yahweh, and the wall of Jerusalem round about.
- 1 Kings 3:3 שְׁלֹמֹה֙ n Proper Solomon loved Yahweh, walking in the statutes of David his father: only he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
- 1 Kings 3:4 שְׁלֹמֹ֔ה n Proper The king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there; for that was the great high place: a thousand burnt offerings did Solomon offer on that altar.
- 1 Kings 3:5 שְׁלֹמֹ֖ה n Proper In Gibeon Yahweh appeared to Solomon in a dream by night; and God said, Ask what I shall give you.
- 1 Kings 3:6 שְׁלֹמֹ֗ה n Proper Solomon said, You have shown to your servant David my father great loving kindness, according as he walked before you in truth, and in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with you; and you have kept for him this great loving kindness, that you have given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day.
- 1 Kings 3:10 שְׁלֹמֹ֔ה n Proper The speech pleased the Lord, that Solomon had asked this thing.
- 1 Kings 3:15 שְׁלֹמֹ֖ה n Proper Solomon awoke; and, behold, it was a dream: and he came to Jerusalem, and stood before the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, and offered up burnt offerings, and offered peace-offerings, and made a feast to all his servants.
- 1 Kings 4:1 שְׁלֹמֹ֔ה n Proper King Solomon was king over all Israel.
- 1 Kings 4:7 וְ/לִ/שְׁלֹמֹ֞ה conj + prep + n Proper Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, who provided food for the king and his household: each man had to make provision for a month in the year.
- 1 Kings 4:11 שְׁלֹמֹ֔ה n Proper Ben Abinadab, in all the height of Dor (he had Taphath the daughter of Solomon as wife);
- 1 Kings 4:15 שְׁלֹמֹ֖ה n Proper Ahimaaz, in Naphtali (he also took Basemath the daughter of Solomon as wife);
- 1 Kings 4:21 וּ/שְׁלֹמֹ֗ה שְׁלֹמֹ֖ה conj + n Proper n Proper Solomon ruled over all the kingdoms from the River to the land of the Philistines, and to the border of Egypt: they brought tribute, and served Solomon all the days of his life.
- 1 Kings 4:22 שְׁלֹמֹ֖ה n Proper Solomon's provision for one day was thirty measures of fine flour, and sixty measures of meal,
- 1 Kings 4:25 שְׁלֹמֹֽה n Proper Judah and Israel lived safely, every man under his vine and under his fig tree, from Dan even to Beersheba, all the days of Solomon.
- 1 Kings 4:26 לִ/שְׁלֹמֹ֗ה prep + n Proper Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen.
- 1 Kings 4:27 שְׁלֹמֹ֗ה שְׁלֹמֹ֖ה n Proper n Proper Those officers provided food for king Solomon, and for all who came to king Solomon's table, every man in his month; they let nothing be lacking.
- 1 Kings 4:29 לִ/שְׁלֹמֹ֛ה prep + n Proper God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much, and very great understanding, even as the sand that is on the sea-shore.
- 1 Kings 4:30 שְׁלֹמֹ֔ה n Proper Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east, and all the wisdom of Egypt.
- 1 Kings 4:34 שְׁלֹמֹ֑ה n Proper There came of all peoples to hear the wisdom of Solomon, from all kings of the earth, who had heard of his wisdom.
- 1 Kings 5:1 שְׁלֹמֹ֔ה n Proper Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants to Solomon; for he had heard that they had anointed him king in the room of his father: for Hiram was ever a lover of David.
- 1 Kings 5:2 שְׁלֹמֹ֔ה n Proper Solomon sent to Hiram, saying,
- 1 Kings 5:7 שְׁלֹמֹ֖ה n Proper It happened, when Hiram heard the words of Solomon, that he rejoiced greatly, and said, Blessed be Yahweh this day, who has given to David a wise son over this great people.
- 1 Kings 5:8 שְׁלֹמֹ֣ה n Proper Hiram sent to Solomon, saying, I have heard [the message] which you have sent to me: I will do all your desire concerning timber of cedar, and concerning timber of fir.
- 1 Kings 5:10 לִ/שְׁלֹמֹ֗ה prep + n Proper So Hiram gave Solomon timber of cedar and timber of fir according to all his desire.
- 1 Kings 5:11 וּ/שְׁלֹמֹה֩ שְׁלֹמֹ֛ה conj + n Proper n Proper Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand measures of wheat for food to his household, and twenty measures of pure oil: thus gave Solomon to Hiram year by year.
- 1 Kings 5:12 לִ/שְׁלֹמֹ֔ה שְׁלֹמֹ֔ה prep + n Proper n Proper Yahweh gave Solomon wisdom, as he promised him; and there was peace between Hiram and Solomon; and they two made a league together.
- 1 Kings 5:13 שְׁלֹמֹ֛ה n Proper King Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the levy was thirty thousand men.
- 1 Kings 5:15 לִ/שְׁלֹמֹ֛ה prep + n Proper Solomon had seventy thousand who bore burdens, and eighty thousand who were stone cutters in the mountains;
- 1 Kings 5:16 לִ/שְׁלֹמֹה֙ prep + n Proper besides Solomon's chief officers who were over the work, three thousand and three hundred, who bore rule over the people who labored in the work.
- 1 Kings 5:18 שְׁלֹמֹ֛ה n Proper Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders and the Gebalites did fashion them, and prepared the timber and the stones to build the house.
- 1 Kings 6:1 שְׁלֹמֹ֖ה n Proper It happened in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month Ziv, which is the second month, that he began to build the house of Yahweh.
- 1 Kings 6:2 שְׁלֹמֹה֙ n Proper The house which king Solomon built for Yahweh, the length of it was sixty cubits, and the breadth of it twenty [cubits], and the height of it thirty cubits.
- 1 Kings 6:11 שְׁלֹמֹ֖ה n Proper The word of Yahweh came to Solomon, saying,
- 1 Kings 6:14 שְׁלֹמֹ֛ה n Proper So Solomon built the house, and finished it.
- 1 Kings 6:21 שְׁלֹמֹ֧ה n Proper So Solomon overlaid the house within with pure gold: and he drew chains of gold across before the oracle; and he overlaid it with gold.
- 1 Kings 7:1 שְׁלֹמֹ֔ה n Proper Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house.
- 1 Kings 7:8 שְׁלֹמֹ֔ה n Proper His house where he was to dwell, the other court within the porch, was of the like work. He made also a house for Pharaoh's daughter (whom Solomon had taken as wife), like this porch.
- 1 Kings 7:13 שְׁלֹמֹ֔ה n Proper King Solomon sent and fetched Hiram out of Tyre.
- 1 Kings 7:14 שְׁלֹמֹ֔ה n Proper He was the son of a widow of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a worker in brass; and he was filled with wisdom and understanding and skill, to work all works in brass. He came to king Solomon, and performed all his work.
- 1 Kings 7:40 שְׁלֹמֹ֖ה n Proper Hiram made the basins, and the shovels, and the basins. So Hiram made an end of doing all the work that he worked for king Solomon in the house of Yahweh:
- 1 Kings 7:45 שְׁלֹמֹ֖ה n Proper and the pots, and the shovels, and the basins: even all these vessels, which Hiram made for king Solomon, in the house of Yahweh, were of burnished brass.
- 1 Kings 7:47 שְׁלֹמֹה֙ n Proper Solomon left all the vessels [unweighed], because they were exceeding many: the weight of the brass could not be found out.
- 1 Kings 7:48 שְׁלֹמֹ֔ה n Proper Solomon made all the vessels that were in the house of Yahweh: the golden altar, and the table whereupon the show bread was, of gold;
- 1 Kings 7:51 שְׁלֹמֹ֖ה שְׁלֹמֹ֜ה n Proper n Proper Thus all the work that king Solomon worked in the house of Yahweh was finished. Solomon brought in the things which David his father had dedicated, [even] the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, and put them in the treasuries of the house of Yahweh.
- 1 Kings 8:1 שְׁלֹמֹ֣ה שְׁלֹמֹ֖ה n Proper n Proper Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the princes of the fathers' [houses] of the children of Israel, to king Solomon in Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of Yahweh out of the city of David, which is Zion.
- 1 Kings 8:2 שְׁלֹמֹה֙ n Proper All the men of Israel assembled themselves to king Solomon at the feast, in the month Ethanim, which is the seventh month.
- 1 Kings 8:5 שְׁלֹמֹ֗ה n Proper King Solomon and all the congregation of Israel, who were assembled to him, were with him before the ark, sacrificing sheep and oxen, that could not be counted nor numbered for multitude.
- 1 Kings 8:12 שְׁלֹמֹ֑ה n Proper Then spoke Solomon, Yahweh has said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.
- 1 Kings 8:22 שְׁלֹמֹ֗ה n Proper Solomon stood before the altar of Yahweh in the presence of all the assembly of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven;
- 1 Kings 8:54 שְׁלֹמֹ֗ה n Proper It was so, that when Solomon had made an end of praying all this prayer and supplication to Yahweh, he arose from before the altar of Yahweh, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread forth toward heaven.
- 1 Kings 8:63 שְׁלֹמֹ֗ה n Proper Solomon offered for the sacrifice of peace-offerings, which he offered to Yahweh, two and twenty thousand oxen, and one hundred twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the children of Israel dedicated the house of Yahweh.
- 1 Kings 8:65 שְׁלֹמֹ֣ה n Proper So Solomon held the feast at that time, and all Israel with him, a great assembly, from the entrance of Hamath to the brook of Egypt, before Yahweh our God, seven days and seven days, even fourteen days.
- 1 Kings 9:1 שְׁלֹמֹ֔ה שְׁלֹמֹ֔ה n Proper n Proper It happened, when Solomon had finished the building of the house of Yahweh, and the king's house, and all Solomon's desire which he was pleased to do,
- 1 Kings 9:2 שְׁלֹמֹ֖ה n Proper that Yahweh appeared to Solomon the second time, as he had appeared to him at Gibeon.
- 1 Kings 9:10 שְׁלֹמֹ֖ה n Proper It happened at the end of twenty years, in which Solomon had built the two houses, the house of Yahweh and the king's house
- 1 Kings 9:11 שְׁלֹמֹ֜ה שְׁלֹמֹ֤ה n Proper n Proper (now Hiram the king of Tyre had furnished Solomon with cedar trees and fir trees, and with gold, according to all his desire), that then king Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.
- 1 Kings 9:12 שְׁלֹמֹ֑ה n Proper Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him; and they didn't please him.
- 1 Kings 9:15 שְׁלֹמֹ֗ה n Proper This is the reason of the levy which king Solomon raised, to build the house of Yahweh, and his own house, and Millo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer.
- 1 Kings 9:16 שְׁלֹמֹֽה n Proper Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up, and taken Gezer, and burnt it with fire, and slain the Canaanites who lived in the city, and given it for a portion to his daughter, Solomon's wife.
- 1 Kings 9:17 שְׁלֹמֹה֙ n Proper Solomon built Gezer, and Beth Horon the lower,
- 1 Kings 9:19 לִ/שְׁלֹמֹ֔ה שְׁלֹמֹ֗ה prep + n Proper n Proper and all the store-cities that Solomon had, and the cities for his chariots, and the cities for his horsemen, and that which Solomon desired to build for his pleasure in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.
- 1 Kings 9:21 שְׁלֹמֹה֙ n Proper their children who were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel were not able utterly to destroy, of them did Solomon raise a levy of bondservants to this day.
- 1 Kings 9:22 שְׁלֹמֹ֖ה n Proper But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no bondservants; but they were the men of war, and his servants, and his princes, and his captains, and rulers of his chariots and of his horsemen.
- 1 Kings 9:23 לִ/שְׁלֹמֹ֔ה prep + n Proper These were the chief officers who were over Solomon's work, five hundred fifty, who bore rule over the people who labored in the work.
- 1 Kings 9:25 שְׁלֹמֹ֡ה n Proper Three times a year did Solomon offer burnt offerings and peace-offerings on the altar which he built to Yahweh, burning incense therewith, [on the altar] that was before Yahweh. So he finished the house.
- 1 Kings 9:26 שְׁלֹמֹ֜ה n Proper King Solomon made a navy of ships in Ezion Geber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red Sea, in the land of Edom.
- 1 Kings 9:27 שְׁלֹמֹֽה n Proper Hiram sent in the navy his servants, sailors who had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon.
- 1 Kings 9:28 שְׁלֹמֹֽה n Proper They came to Ophir, and fetched from there gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon.
- 1 Kings 10:1 שְׁלֹמֹ֖ה n Proper When the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning the name of Yahweh, she came to prove him with hard questions.
- 1 Kings 10:2 שְׁלֹמֹ֔ה n Proper She came to Jerusalem with a very great train, with camels that bore spices, and very much gold, and precious stones; and when she was come to Solomon, she talked with him of all that was in her heart.
- 1 Kings 10:3 שְׁלֹמֹ֖ה n Proper Solomon told her all her questions: there was not anything hidden from the king which he didn't tell her.
- 1 Kings 10:4 שְׁלֹמֹ֑ה n Proper When the queen of Sheba had seen all the wisdom of Solomon, and the house that he had built,
- 1 Kings 10:10 שְׁלֹמֹֽה n Proper She gave the king one hundred twenty talents of gold, and of spices very great store, and precious stones: there came no more such abundance of spices as these which the queen of Sheba gave to king Solomon.
- 1 Kings 10:13 שְׁלֹמֹ֜ה שְׁלֹמֹ֑ה n Proper n Proper King Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatever she asked, besides that which Solomon gave her of his royal bounty. So she turned, and went to her own land, she and her servants.
- 1 Kings 10:14 לִ/שְׁלֹמֹ֖ה prep + n Proper Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred sixty-six talents of gold,
- 1 Kings 10:16 שְׁלֹמֹ֛ה n Proper King Solomon made two hundred bucklers of beaten gold; six hundred [shekels] of gold went to one buckler.
- 1 Kings 10:21 שְׁלֹמֹה֙ שְׁלֹמֹ֖ה n Proper n Proper All king Solomon's drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold: none were of silver; it was nothing accounted of in the days of Solomon.
- 1 Kings 10:23 שְׁלֹמֹ֔ה n Proper So king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth in riches and in wisdom.
- 1 Kings 10:24 שְׁלֹמֹ֑ה n Proper All the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart.
- 1 Kings 10:26 שְׁלֹמֹה֮ n Proper Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen: and he had a thousand and four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, that he bestowed in the chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem.
- 1 Kings 10:28 לִ/שְׁלֹמֹ֖ה prep + n Proper The horses which Solomon had were brought out of Egypt; and the king's merchants received them in droves, each drove at a price.
- 1 Kings 11:1 שְׁלֹמֹ֗ה n Proper Now king Solomon loved many foreign women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites;
- 1 Kings 11:2 שְׁלֹמֹ֖ה n Proper of the nations concerning which Yahweh said to the children of Israel, You shall not go among them, neither shall they come among you; for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods: Solomon joined to these in love.
- 1 Kings 11:4 שְׁלֹמֹ֔ה n Proper For it happened, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his heart after other gods; and his heart was not perfect with Yahweh his God, as was the heart of David his father.
- 1 Kings 11:5 שְׁלֹמֹ֔ה n Proper For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.
- 1 Kings 11:6 שְׁלֹמֹ֛ה n Proper Solomon did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and didn't go fully after Yahweh, as did David his father.
- 1 Kings 11:7 שְׁלֹמֹ֜ה n Proper Then did Solomon build a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, on the mountain that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech the abomination of the children of Ammon.
- 1 Kings 11:9 בִּ/שְׁלֹמֹ֑ה prep + n Proper Yahweh was angry with Solomon, because his heart was turned away from Yahweh, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice,
- 1 Kings 11:11 לִ/שְׁלֹמֹ֗ה prep + n Proper Therefore Yahweh said to Solomon, Because this is done of you, and you have not kept my covenant and my statutes, which I have commanded you, I will surely tear the kingdom from you, and will give it to your servant.
- 1 Kings 11:14 לִ/שְׁלֹמֹ֔ה prep + n Proper Yahweh raised up an adversary to Solomon, Hadad the Edomite: he was of the king's seed in Edom.
- 1 Kings 11:25 שְׁלֹמֹ֔ה n Proper He was an adversary to Israel all the days of Solomon, besides the mischief that Hadad [did]: and he abhorred Israel, and reigned over Syria.
- 1 Kings 11:26 לִ/שְׁלֹמֹ֑ה prep + n Proper Jeroboam the son of Nebat, an Ephraimite of Zeredah, a servant of Solomon, whose mother's name was Zeruah, a widow, he also lifted up his hand against the king.
- 1 Kings 11:27 שְׁלֹמֹה֙ n Proper This was the reason why he lifted up his hand against the king: Solomon built Millo, and repaired the breach of the city of David his father.
- 1 Kings 11:28 שְׁלֹמֹ֜ה n Proper The man Jeroboam was a mighty man of valor; and Solomon saw the young man that he was industrious, and he gave him charge over all the labor of the house of Joseph.
- 1 Kings 11:31 שְׁלֹמֹ֔ה n Proper He said to Jeroboam, Take ten pieces; for thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, Behold, I will tear the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon, and will give ten tribes to you
- 1 Kings 11:40 שְׁלֹמֹ֖ה שְׁלֹמֹֽה n Proper n Proper Solomon sought therefore to kill Jeroboam; but Jeroboam arose, and fled into Egypt, to Shishak king of Egypt, and was in Egypt until the death of Solomon.
- 1 Kings 11:41 שְׁלֹמֹ֛ה שְׁלֹמֹֽה n Proper n Proper Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, and all that he did, and his wisdom, aren't they written in the book of the acts of Solomon?
- 1 Kings 11:42 שְׁלֹמֹ֤ה n Proper The time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel was forty years.
- 1 Kings 11:43 שְׁלֹמֹה֙ n Proper Solomon slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David his father: and Rehoboam his son reigned in his place.
- 1 Kings 12:2 שְׁלֹמֹ֑ה n Proper It happened, when Jeroboam the son of Nebat heard of it (for he was yet in Egypt, where he had fled from the presence of king Solomon, and Jeroboam lived in Egypt,
- 1 Kings 12:6 שְׁלֹמֹ֣ה n Proper King Rehoboam took counsel with the old men, who had stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying, What counsel give you me to return answer to this people?
- 1 Kings 12:21 שְׁלֹמֹֽה n Proper When Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he assembled all the house of Judah, and the tribe of Benjamin, a hundred and eighty thousand chosen men, who were warriors, to fight against the house of Israel, to bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam the son of Solomon.
- 1 Kings 12:23 שְׁלֹמֹה֙ n Proper Speak to Rehoboam the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all the house of Judah and Benjamin, and to the rest of the people, saying,
- 1 Kings 14:21 שְׁלֹמֹ֔ה n Proper Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which Yahweh had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there: and his mother's name was Naamah the Ammonitess.
- 1 Kings 14:26 שְׁלֹמֹֽה n Proper and he took away the treasures of the house of Yahweh, and the treasures of the king's house; he even took away all: and he took away all the shields of gold which Solomon had made.
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At its core, שלמה (Shᵉlômôh) means “Solomon.” Its uses cluster heavily in 1 Kings (53% of all occurrences). With 263 verses in 11 books, it is a common word in the Hebrew Bible. Scripture first uses it in 2 Samuel 5:14. Dig into 263-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H8010 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 263
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 263 distinct verses.
- 11 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 11 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #168
- by frequency
- Top 250 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 168 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 263 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 1 Kings 139 verses 53%
- 2 Chronicles 74 verses 28%
- 1 Chronicles 24 verses 9%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 263 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 146 verses · 56%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 117 verses · 44%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Solomon 239×, Solomon's 17×, Did solomon 7×
- American Standard Version: Solomon 250×, Did solomon 6×, Wherein solomon 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Solomon 248×, Solomon’s 15×, Him 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Solomon 286×, Were to solomon 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H8010 across 293 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 26 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H8010 across 290 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 32 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H8010 across 276 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 9 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 17 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H8010 across 295 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 7 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in BDB
The 2 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- Solomon = "peace"
- son of David by Bathsheba and 3rd king of Israel; author of Proverbs and Song of Songs
Word origin
n.pr.m. Solomon (Σαλωμων, rarely Σαλομων, 𝔊L mostly Σολομων; cf. LagBN 53, 96);—king of Israel, son of David and Bathsheba 2 S 12:24; 1 K 1:11 + [name 2 times S; 162 times K; 109 times Ch; 7 times Ezr Ne]; born in Jerus. 2 S 5:14; 1 Ch 3:5; 14:4; designated by D. as successor, anointed and proclaimed before D.’s death 1 K 1:30, 33, 34, 39 +; king after D.’s death 1 K 2:12, 17; 1 Ch 29:28; 2 Ch 1:1 + [phr. הַמֶּלֶךְ שׁ׳ 1 K 1:34 + 36 times K, 11 times Ch, Je 52:20; Ct 3:9, 11; שׁ׳ הַמּ׳ 1 K 2:17; 12:2; 1 Ch 29:24; 2 Ch 10:2; שׁ׳ מֶלֶךְ יְהוּדָה 1 K 12:23; 2 Ch 11:3, מ׳ יִשׂ׳ 2 K 23:13; 24:13; 2 Ch 30:26; 35:3; Ne 13:26]; builder of temple 1 K 5:22; 6:1, 2; 1 Ch 5:26 + often; wise 1 K 3:10; 5:9, 10, 14; 10:1, 2, 3, 4; 2 Ch 1:7, 11 +; author of proverbs (and songs) according to Proverbs מִשְׁלֵי שׁ׳ 1:1; 10:1; 25:1 (cf. 1 K 5:12, 13), v. also לִשׁ׳ ψ 72:1; 127:1 (titles), Ct 1:1 (title); of written provision for priests, etc. 2 Ch 35:4, cf. 8:14 Ne 12:45; elsewhere (outside of K Ch) name occurs †Je 52:20; Ct 1:5 (Wkl Altor. Forsch. ii. 196 proposes Šalmaites, Nab. שלמו Lzb 376, cf. Levy TW ii.489 Jastr 1587), 3:7, 9, 11; 8:11, 12, and in phr. בְּנֵי עַדֵי שׁ׳ Ezr 2:55, 58 = Ne 7:57, 60; Ne 11:3.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from שלום (shâlôwm) (H7965) — peace.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
שַׂלְמָה
- v. שִׂמְלָה) cloak, garment. Gen. R. s. 3 נתעטף בה הקב"ה כש׳ the Lord wrapped himself in it (the light) as in a cloak; Yalk. Ps. 862 נתעטף הקב"ה בשמלה; Ex. R. s. 50. Snh. 102ᵃ; a. fr.
שְׁלֹמֹה
- (b. h.) pr. n. m. Solomon, king of Israel. Ber. 10ᵃ כנגד מי אמר ש׳ וכ׳ with reference to whom did Solomon say that verse (Prov. XXXI, 26)? Snh. 20ᵇ בתחלה מלך ש׳ על העליונים וכ׳ Solomon ruled first over those on high &c. Y. ib. II, 20ᶜ ירד מלאך … ש׳ וכ׳ an angel came down in the image of S. and made him rise from his throne &c.; Koh. R. to II, 2. Pes. 36ᵇ אפי׳ כמצות של ש׳ even unleavened cakes like those of Solomon (of the finest flour) may be used on the Passover; Y. ib. II, 29ᵇ bot. מצה שלמה (insert של, or read: מַצַּת). e.g. Proverbs 31:26
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 45 distinct written forms H8010 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| שְׁלֹמֹ֔ה | Noun, Proper | 1 Kings 1:38 | 43 |
| שְׁלֹמֹ֖ה | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 3:10 | 39 |
| שְׁלֹמֹה֙ | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 22:9 | 24 |
| שְׁלֹמֹ֑ה | Noun, Proper | Ezra 2:55 | 23 |
| שְׁלֹמֹֽה | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 28:9 | 20 |
| שְׁלֹמֹ֗ה | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 18:8 | 19 |
| שְׁלֹמֹ֣ה | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 22:5 | 16 |
| שְׁלֹמֹ֜ה | Noun, Proper | 1 Kings 2:22 | 15 |
| שְׁלֹמֹ֛ה | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 6:32 | 14 |
| שְׁלֹמֹ֥ה | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 23:1 | 9 |
| שְׁלֹמֹ֤ה | Noun, Proper | 1 Kings 1:13 | 7 |
| לִ/שְׁלֹמֹ֔ה | Noun, Proper | 1 Kings 5:12 | 6 |
| לִ/שְׁלֹמֹ֖ה | Noun, Proper | 1 Kings 10:14 | 5 |
| לִ/שְׁלֹמֹ֣ה | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 22:6 | 5 |
| לִ/שְׁלֹמֹ֑ה | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 22:7 | 4 |
| שְׁלֹמֹ֨ה | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 29:1 | 4 |
| לִ/שְׁלֹמֹ֗ה | Noun, Proper | 1 Kings 4:26 | 3 |
| לִ/שְׁלֹמֹה֙ | Noun, Proper | 1 Kings 1:51 | 3 |
| שְׁלֹמֹה֮ | Noun, Proper | 1 Kings 10:26 | 3 |
| וְ/לִ/שְׁלֹמֹ֥ה | Noun, Proper | 1 Kings 1:19 | 2 |
| וּ/שְׁלֹמֹֽה | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 14:4 | 2 |
| לִ/שְׁלֹמֹ֛ה | Noun, Proper | 1 Kings 4:29 | 2 |
| לִ/שְׁלֹמֹֽה | Noun, Proper | 2 Chronicles 9:14 | 2 |
| שְׁלֹמֹ֧ה | Noun, Proper | 1 Kings 6:21 | 2 |
| בִּ/שְׁלֹמֹ֑ה | Noun, Proper | 1 Kings 11:9 | 1 |
| בִּ/שְׁלֹמֹ֣ה | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 28:5 | 1 |
| וְ/לִ/שְׁלֹמֹ֔ה | Noun, Proper | 2 Chronicles 7:10 | 1 |
| וְ/לִ/שְׁלֹמֹ֞ה | Noun, Proper | 1 Kings 4:7 | 1 |
| וְ/לִ/שְׁלֹמֹ֣ה | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 29:19 | 1 |
| וּ/שְׁלֹמֹ֕ה | Noun, Proper | 1 Kings 2:12 | 1 |
| וּ/שְׁלֹמֹ֖ה | Noun, Proper | 2 Chronicles 11:17 | 1 |
| וּ/שְׁלֹמֹ֗ה | Noun, Proper | 1 Kings 4:21 | 1 |
| וּ/שְׁלֹמֹה֙ | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 3:5 | 1 |
| וּ/שְׁלֹמֹה֩ | Noun, Proper | 1 Kings 5:11 | 1 |
| לִ/שְׁלֹ֫מֹ֥ה | Noun, Proper | Psalms 127:1 | 1 |
| לִ/שְׁלֹמֹ֜ה | Noun, Proper | 2 Chronicles 9:25 | 1 |
| לִ/שְׁלֹמֹ֡ה | Noun, Proper | 2 Chronicles 1:11 | 1 |
| לִ/שְׁלֹמֹ֥ה | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 22:17 | 1 |
| לִ/שְׁלֹמֹ֨ה | Noun, Proper | Psalms 72:1 | 1 |
| מִ/שְּׁלֹמֹ֔ה | Noun, Proper | 2 Chronicles 9:2 | 1 |
| שְׁ֠לֹמֹה | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 29:23 | 1 |
| שְׁלֹ֫מֹ֥ה | Noun, Proper | Proverbs 10:1 | 1 |
| שְׁלֹמֹ֡ה | Noun, Proper | 1 Kings 9:25 | 1 |
| שְׁלֹמֹה֒ | Noun, Proper | 2 Chronicles 9:1 | 1 |
| שֶׁ/לִּ/שְׁלֹמֹ֔ה | Noun, Proper | Song of Solomon 3:7 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H8010, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
- שלמות Shᵉlômôwth H8013 Shelomoth
- שלמי Shᵉlômîy H8015 Shelomi
- שלמיאל Shᵉlumîyʼêl H8017 Shelumiel
- שלמית Shᵉlômîyth H8019 Shelomith
- Σολομων Solomṓn G4672 Solomon
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 8 — not the complete family. 5 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Solomon). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897
Peaceful, (Heb. Shelomoh), David's second son by Bathsheba, i.e., the first after their legal marriage (2 Sam. 12). He was probably born about B.C. 1035 (1 Chr. 22:5; 29:1). He succeeded his father on the throne in early manhood, probably about sixteen or eighteen years of age. Nathan, to whom his education was intrusted, called him Jedidiah, i.e., "beloved of the Lord" (2 Sam. 12:24, 25). He was the first king of Israel "born in the purple." His father chose him as his successor, passing over the claims of his elder sons: "Assuredly Solomon my son shall reign after me." His history is recorded in 1 Kings 1-11 and 2 Chr. 1-9. His elevation to the throne took place before his father's death, and was hastened on mainly by Nathan and Bathsheba, in consequence of the rebellion of Adonijah (1 Kings 1:5-40). During his long reign of forty years the Hebrew monarchy gained its highest splendour. This period has well been called the "Augustan age" of the Jewish annals. The first half of his reign was, however, by far the brighter and more prosperous; the latter half was clouded by the idolatries into which he fell, mainly from his heathen intermarriages (1 Kings 11:1-8; 14:21, 31).
Before his death David gave parting instructions to his son (1 Kings 2:1-9; 1 Chr. 22:7-16; 28). As soon as he had settled himself in his kingdom, and arranged the affairs of his extensive empire, he entered into an alliance with Egypt by the marriage of the daughter of Pharaoh (1 Kings 3:1), of whom, however, nothing further is recorded. He surrounded himself with all the luxuries and the external grandeur of an Eastern monarch, and his government prospered. He entered into an alliance with Hiram, king of Tyre, who in many ways greatly assisted him in his numerous undertakings. (See HIRAM.)
For some years before his death David was engaged in the active work of collecting materials (1 Chr. 29:6-9; 2 Chr. 2:3-7) for building a temple in Jerusalem as a permanent abode for the ark of the covenant. He was not permitted to build the house of God (1 Chr. 22:8); that honour was reserved to his son Solomon. (See TEMPLE.)
After the completion of the temple, Solomon engaged in the erection of many other buildings of importance in Jerusalem and in other parts of his kingdom. For the long space of thirteen years he was engaged in the erection of a royal palace on Ophel (1 Kings 7:1-12). It was 100 cubits long, 50 broad, and 30 high. Its lofty roof was supported by forty-five cedar pillars, so that the hall was like a forest of cedar wood, and hence probably it received the name of "The House of the Forest of Lebanon." In front of this "house" was another building, which was called the Porch of Pillars, and in front of this again was the "Hall of Judgment," or Throne-room (1 Kings 7:7; 10:18-20; 2 Chr. 9:17-19), "the King's Gate," where he administered justice and gave audience to his people. This palace was a building of great magnificence and beauty. A portion of it was set apart as the residence of the queen consort, the daughter of Pharaoh. From the palace there was a private staircase of red and scented sandal wood which led up to the temple.
Solomon also constructed great works for the purpose of securing a plentiful supply of water for the city (Eccl. 2:4-6). He then built Millo (LXX., "Acra") for the defence of the city, completing a line of ramparts around it (1 Kings 9:15, 24; 11:27). He erected also many other fortifications for the defence of his kingdom at various points where it was exposed to the assault of enemies (1 Kings 9:15-19; 2 Chr. 8:2-6). Among his great undertakings must also be mentioned the building of Tadmor (q.v.) in the wilderness as a commercial depot, as well as a military outpost.
During his reign Palestine enjoyed great commercial prosperity. Extensive traffic was carried on by land with Tyre and Egypt and Arabia, and by sea with Spain and India and the coasts of Africa, by which Solomon accumulated vast stores of wealth and of the produce of all nations (1 Kings 9:26-28; 10:11, 12; 2 Chr. 8:17, 18; 9:21). This was the "golden age" of Israel. The royal magnificence and splendour of Solomon's court were unrivalled. He had seven hundred wives and three hundred concubines, an evidence at once of his pride, his wealth, and his sensuality. The maintenance of his household involved immense expenditure. The provision required for one day was "thirty measures of fine flour, and threescore measures of meal, ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and an hundred sheep, beside harts, and roebucks, and fallow-deer, and fatted fowl" (1 Kings 4:22, 23).
Solomon's reign was not only a period of great material prosperity, but was equally remarkable for its intellectual activity. He was the leader of his people also in this uprising amongst them of new intellectual life. "He spake three thousand proverbs: and his songs were a thousand and five. And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes" (1 Kings 4:32, 33).
His fame was spread abroad through all lands, and men came from far and near "to hear the wisdom of Solomon." Among others thus attracted to Jerusalem was "the queen of the south" (Matt. 12:42), the queen of Sheba, a country in Arabia Felix. "Deep, indeed, must have been her yearning, and great his fame, which induced a secluded Arabian queen to break through the immemorial custom of her dreamy land, and to put forth the energy required for braving the burdens and perils of so long a journey across a wilderness. Yet this she undertook, and carried it out with safety." (1 Kings 10:1-13; 2 Chr. 9:1-12.) She was filled with amazement by all she saw and heard: "there was no more spirit in her." After an interchange of presents she returned to her native land.
But that golden age of Jewish history passed away. The bright day of Solomon's glory ended in clouds and darkness. His decline and fall from his high estate is a sad record. Chief among the causes of his decline were his polygamy and his great wealth. "As he grew older he spent more of his time among his favourites. The idle king living among these idle women, for 1,000 women, with all their idle and mischievous attendants, filled the palaces and pleasure-houses which he had built (1 Kings 11:3), learned first to tolerate and then to imitate their heathenish ways. He did not, indeed, cease to believe in the God of Israel with his mind. He did not cease to offer the usual sacrifices in the temple at the great feasts. But his heart was not right with God; his worship became merely formal; his soul, left empty by the dying out of true religious fervour, sought to be filled with any religious excitement which offered itself. Now for the first time a worship was publicly set up amongst the people of the Lord which was not simply irregular or forbidden, like that of Gideon (Judg. 8:27), or the Danites (Judg. 18:30, 31), but was downright idolatrous." (1 Kings 11:7; 2 Kings 23:13.)
This brought upon him the divine displeasure. His enemies prevailed against him (1 Kings 11:14-22, 23-25, 26-40), and one judgment after another fell upon the land. And now the end of all came, and he died, after a reign of forty years, and was buried in the city of David, and "with him was buried the short-lived glory and unity of Israel." "He leaves behind him but one weak and worthless son, to dismember his kingdom and disgrace his name."
"The kingdom of Solomon," says Rawlinson, "is one of the most striking facts in the Biblical history. A petty nation, which for hundreds of years has with difficulty maintained a separate existence in the midst of warlike tribes, each of which has in turn exercised dominion over it and oppressed it, is suddenly raised by the genius of a soldier-monarch to glory and greatness. An empire is established which extends from the Euphrates to the borders of Egypt, a distance of 450 miles; and this empire, rapidly constructed, enters almost immediately on a period of peace which lasts for half a century. Wealth, grandeur, architectural magnificence, artistic excellence, commercial enterprise, a position of dignity among the great nations of the earth, are enjoyed during this space, at the end of which there is a sudden collapse. The ruling nation is split in twain, the subject-races fall off, the pre-eminence lately gained being wholly lost, the scene of struggle, strife, oppression, recovery, inglorious submission, and desperate effort, re-commences.", Historical Illustrations.
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(peaceful). I. Early life and occasion to the throne .--Solomon was the child of David's old age, the last born of all his sons. (1 Chronicles 3:5) The yearnings of the "man of war" led him to give to the new-horn infant the name of Solomon (Shelomoth, the peaceful one). Nathan, with a marked reference to the meaning of the king's own name (David, the darling, the beloved one), calls the infant Jedidiah (Jedid'yah), that is, the darling of the Lord. (2 Samuel 11:24,25) He was placed under the care of Nathan from his earliest infancy. At first, apparently, there was no distinct purpose to make him the heir. Absalom was still the king's favorite son, (2 Samuel 13:37; 18:33) and was looked on by the people as the destined successor. (2 Samuel 14:13; 15:1-6) The death of Absalom when Solomon was about ten years old left the place vacant, and David pledged his word in secret to Bath-sheba that he, and no other, should be the heir. (1 Kings 1:13) The words which were spoken somewhat later express, doubtless, the purpose which guided him throughout. (1 Chronicles 28:9; 20) His son's life should not he as his own had been, one of hardships and wars, dark crimes and passionate repentance, but, from first to last, be pure, blameless, peaceful, fulfilling the ideal of glory and of righteousness after which he himself had vainly striven. The glorious visions of (Psalms 72:1) ... may be looked on as the prophetic expansion of these hopes of his old age. So far, all was well. Apparently his influence over his son's character was one exclusively for good. Nothing that we know of Bath-sheba lends us to think of her as likely to mould her son's mind and heart to the higher forms of goodness. Under these influences the boy grew up. At the age of ten or eleven he must have passed through the revolt of Absalom, and shared his father's exile. (2 Samuel 15:16) He would be taught all that priests or Levites or prophets had to teach. When David was old and feeble, Adonijah, Solomon's older brother attempted to gain possession of the throne; but he was defeated, and Solomon went down to Gihon and was proclaimed and anointed king. A few months more and Solomon found himself, by his father's death, the sole occupant of the throne. The position to which he succeeded was unique. Never before, and never after, did the kingdom of Israel take its place among the great monarchies of the East. Large treasures, accumulated through many years, were at his disposal. II. Personal appearance .--Of Solomon's personal appearance we have no direct description, as we have of the earlier kings. There are, however, materials for filling up the gap. Whatever higher mystic meaning may be latent in (Psalms 45:1) ... or the Song of Songs, we are all but compelled to think of them us having had at least a historical starting-point. They tell of one who was, in the eyes of the men of his own time, "fairer than the children of men," the face "bright, and ruddy" as his father's, (Song of Solomon 5:10; 1 Samuel 17:42) bushy locks, dark as the raven's wing, yet not without a golden glow, the eyes soft as "the eyes of cloves," the "countenance as Lebanon excellent as the cedars," "the chiefest among ten thousand, the altogether lovely." (Song of Solomon 5:13-18) Add to this all gifts of a noble, far-reaching intellect large and ready sympathies, a playful and genial humor, the lips "full of grace," and the soul "anointed" as "with the oil of gladness," (Psalms 45:1) ... and we may form some notion of what the king was like in that dawn of his golden prime. III. Reign .--All the data for a continuous history that we have of Solomon's reign are-- (a) The duration of the reign, forty sears, B.C. 1015-975. (1 Kings 11:4) (b) The commencement of the temple in the fourth, its completion in the eleventh, year of his reign. (1 Kings 6:1,37,38) (c) The commencement of his own palace in the seventh, its completion in the twentieth, year. (1 Kings 7:1; 2 Chronicles 8:1) (d) The conquest of Hamath-zobah, and the consequent foundation of cities in the region of north Palestine after the twentieth year. (2 Chronicles 8:1-6) IV. Foreign policy .--
+ Egypt. The first act of the foreign policy of the new reign must have been to most Israelites a very startling one. He made affinity with Pharaoh, king of Egypt, by marrying his daughter (1 Kings 3:1) The immediate results were probably favorable enough. The new queen brought with her as a dowry the frontier city of Gezer. But the ultimate issue of alliance showed that it was hollow and impolitic. + Tyre. The alliance with the Phoenician king rested on a somewhat different footing. It had been a part of David's policy from the beginning of his reign. Hiram had been "ever a lover of David." As soon as he heard of Solomon's accession he sent ambassadors to salute him. A correspondence passed between the two kings, which ended in a treaty of commerce. The opening of Joppa as a port created a new coasting-trade, and the materials from Tyre were conveyed to that city on floats, and thence to Jerusalem. (2 Chronicles 2:16) In return for these exports, the Phoenicians were only too glad to receive the corn and oil of Solomon's territory. The results of the alliance did not end here. Now, for the first time in the history of the Jews, they entered on a career as a commercial people. + The foregoing were the two most important to Babylon alliances. The absence of any reference to Babylon and Assyria, and the fact that the Euphrates was recognized as the boundary of Solomon's kingdom, (2 Chronicles 9:26) suggests the inference that the Mesopotamian monarchies were at this time comparatively feeble. Other neighboring nations were content to pay annual tribute in the form of gifts. (2 Chronicles 9:28) + The survey of the influence exercised by Solomon on surrounding nations would be incomplete if we were to pass over that which was more directly personal the fame of his glory and his wisdom. Wherever the ships of Tarshish went, they carried with them the report, losing nothing in its passage, of what their crews had seen and heard. The journey of the queen of Sheba, though from its circumstances the most conspicuous, did not stand alone. V. Internal history .-- + The first prominent scene in Solomon's reign is one which presents his character in its noblest aspect. God in a vision having offered him the choice of good things he would have, he chose wisdom in preference to riches or honor or long life. The wisdom asked for was given in large measure, and took a varied range. The wide world of nature, animate and inanimate, the lives and characters of men, lay before him, and he took cognizance of all but the highest wisdom was that wanted for the highest work, for governing and guiding, and the historian hastens to give an illustration of it. The pattern-instance is, in all its circumstances, thoroughly Oriental. (1 Kings 3:16-28) + In reference to the king's finances, the first impression of the facts given us is that of abounding plenty. Large quantities of the precious metals were imported from Ophir and Tarshish. (1 Kings 9:28) All the kings and princes of the subject provinces paid tribute in the form of gifts, in money and in kind, "at a fixed rate year by year." (1 Kings 10:25) Monopolies of trade contributed to the king's treasury. (1 Kings 10:28,29) The total amount thus brought into the treasury in gold, exclusive of all payments in kind, amounted to 666 talents. (1 Kings 10:14) + It was hardly possible, however, that any financial system could bear the strain of the king's passion for magnificence. The cost of the temple was, it is true, provided for by David's savings and the offerings of the people; but even while that was building, yet more when it was finished one structure followed on another with ruinous rapidity. All the equipment of his court, the "apparel" of his servants was on the same scale. A body-guard attended him, "threescore valiant men," tallest and handsomest of the sons of Israel. Forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen made up the measure of his magnificence. (1 Kings 4:26) As the treasury became empty, taxes multiplied and monopolies became more irksome. + A description of the temple erected by Solomon is given elsewhere. After seven years and the work was completed and the day came to which all Israelites looked back as the culminating glory of their nation. + We cannot ignore the fact that even now there were some darker shades in the picture. He reduced the "strangers" in the land, the remnant of the Canaanite races, to the state of helots, and made their life "bitter with all hard bondage." One hundred and fifty-three thousand, with wives and children in proportion, were torn from their homes and sent off to the quarries and the forests of Lebanon. (1 Kings 5:15; 2 Chronicles 2:17,18) And the king soon fell from the loftiest height of his religious life to the lowest depth. Before long the priests and prophets had to grieve over rival temples to Molech, Chemosh, Ashtaroth and forms of ritual not idolatrous only, but cruel, dark, impure. This evil came as the penalty of another. (1 Kings 11:1-8) He gave himself to "strange women." He found himself involved in a fascination which led to the worship of strange gods. Something there was perhaps in his very "largeness of heart," so far in advance of the traditional knowledge of his age, rising to higher and wider thoughts of God, which predisposed him to it. In recognizing what was true in other forms of faith, he might lose his horror at what was false. With this there may have mingled political motives. He may have hoped, by a policy of toleration, to conciliate neighboring princes, to attract larger traffic. But probably also there was another influence less commonly taken into account. The widespread belief of the East in the magic arts of Solomon is not, it is believed, without its foundation of truth. Disasters followed before long as the natural consequence of what was politically a blunder as well as religiously a sin. VI. His literary works.--little remains out of the songs, proverbs, treatises, of which the historian speaks. (1 Kings 4:32,33) Excerpts only are given from the three thousand proverbs. Of the thousand and five songs we know absolutely nothing. His books represent the three stages of his life. The Song of Songs brings before us the brightness of his -youth. Then comes in the book of Proverbs, the stage of practical, prudential thought. The poet has become the philosopher, the mystic has passed into the moralist; but the man passed through both stages without being permanently the better for either. They were to him but phases of his life which he had known and exhausted, (Ecclesiastes 1:1; Ecclesiastes 2:1) ... and therefore there came, its in the confessions of the preacher, the great retribution.
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
peaceable; perfect; one who recompenses
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Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 232 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 263 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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- 2 Samuel 5:14
- 1 Kings 1:10
- 2 Kings 21:7
- 1 Chronicles 3:5
- 2 Chronicles 1:1
- Ezra 2:55
- Psalms 72:1
- Proverbs 1:1
- Song of Solomon 1:1
- Jeremiah 52:20
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