Solomon
About the practice that some fools always add pictures such as portraits of historical figures.
Solomon says: Ecclesiastes 1: 2 The preacher says, vanity of vanity, vanity of vanity. Everything is empty.
The king of Israel. David's son and heir. He ruled from about 960 BC to 930 BC, in the middle of BC 10 century. His deeds are recorded in the Old Testament. David, Solomon's father, established a Jewish dynasty and tried to build an empire from the Egyptian border to the Euphrates River. After Solomon succeeded to the throne, he eliminated his political enemies and placed his friends in the army, government and religious institutions. Solomon also consolidated his position through marriage. He married the daughters and sisters of kings from all over the world, one of whom was the daughter of an Egyptian Pharaoh. He occupied and burned the Canaanite city of Gaza and gave it to Solomon. Like all pioneers of the empire, Solomon defended his territory by force. Besides infantry, he has amazing chariot soldiers and cavalry. The network of trading posts established by Solomon later became the core of the Jewish diaspora. Solomon Empire was dominated by commerce, and all government agencies served trade. He built a guest house for Israel's major foreign trade missions around the capital Jerusalem. The Queen of Sheba visited Solomon. Solomon built the walls and temples of Jerusalem. Solomon is an energetic manager. He divided the original 12 tribe in Israel into 12 administrative regions, each of which was appointed by the king, and the 12 governors were controlled by a big governor. Solomon is also famous for his wisdom. He is also a famous poet, who wrote more than 65,438+0,000 poems. According to legend, songs of songs and proverbs collected in the Bible are his works. Solomon's reign was the peak of Israel and the United Kingdom of Judea, with a strong army and prosperous business. The temple of the Lord and the magnificent palace were successively built in Jerusalem. Therefore, he is regarded as the greatest king of ancient Israel. In his later years, he was extravagant and indulged in womanhood, which led to the deterioration of the country. The country split after death.
Solomon was the son of David, king of ancient Israel. According to the bible. David unified the Jewish tribes and established a kingdom with Jerusalem as its capital.
Solomon was very clever when he was young, and he succeeded to the throne at the age of 17. He married an Egyptian princess and cooperated with the Egyptians to build a very powerful country. The reign of Solomon was the most powerful period of the ancient kingdom of Israel.
Nowadays, people praise a person's intelligence and often describe it as "Solomon's wisdom".
First, the dispute between Solomon and Adonijah.
David is old and dying. Adonijah the fourth son was assisted by Joab the general and Abiathar the priest. He is very active and ready to inherit the throne. But the prophet Nathan. The other faction, led by Zadok, a priest, strongly supported Solomon, the son of Bathsheba, as king. They cooperated with Bathsheba's activities before King David and urged David to formally elect Solomon to the throne before his death. So the supporters of Solomon surrounded Solomon and rode David's mule to Gihon. There, Zadok the priest held a grand ceremony to anoint the king. Amid the cheers of King Solomon, another faction supporting adonia declared its collapse and fled. Adoniya saved her life for the time being, but soon after the death of King David, King Solomon still killed her half-brother who was fighting for the throne under the pretext of "a trivial matter".
Second, the achievements of King Solomon
Solomon ascended the throne and inherited his father David's vast land map: from the northeast to the Euphrates River, from the southeast to the Gulf of Aqaba, and from the southwest to the border between the Philistines and Egypt. King Solomon is ambitious, and his decisions and judgments are full of wisdom and strategy. He vigorously strengthened the machine of ruling the state, divided 12 administrative regions across the country, and added various official positions to facilitate administrative rule and collect central taxes. Solomon also strengthened the defensive buildings in the capital Jerusalem, expanded the walls of Jerusalem, and established six fortified cities outside Jerusalem, including Megiddo, Hazor and Gezer. It also built a city of goods accumulation, a car garage, a racecourse and so on. So far, a horse farm in Solomon's time has been excavated in Migido, and a metal smelter site in Solomon's time has been discovered in Ezion Garber (now Eilat) at the northern end of the Gulf of Aqaba. In Solomon's era, the maritime trade was developed based on the port of Eilat. His trading fleet sailed in the Red Sea and Mediterranean Sea, as far away as Africa and India.
Another important achievement of Solomon was the construction of temples and palaces. He completed the great task of building the temple that his father David failed to complete. It is reported that it took seven years to build this temple. The sixth chapter of Kings and the third chapter of Chronicles of Past Dynasties recorded the process and grand scale of temple construction in detail. This temple was later called the "First Temple". In addition, Solomon spent thirteen years building magnificent palaces and other buildings, including the Pharaoh's Daughter Palace, the Lebanese Palace, the cylindrical promenade and the Throne Hall. Solomon signed a construction contract with the King of Tyre in Phoenicia to build the above-mentioned project, and the people of Tyre and Sidon provided building materials and construction personnel. So Solomon sold twenty cities of Asher to the king of Tyre.
King Solomon developed friendly relations with neighboring countries. His marriage to the Pharaoh of Egypt attracted all the neighboring countries to pay their respects and visit. For example, the famous Queen of Sheba (located at the southernmost tip of the Arabian Peninsula, now Yemen) also led a large number of officials to visit. The beauty of Solomon's Palace and the wisdom of King Solomon fascinated the Queen, leaving a series of beautiful legends about the Queen and Solomon.
During the forty years of King Solomon's reign, his achievements in politics, economy and diplomacy have been further developed than those during the reign of his father David. The rule of David and Solomon can be said to be an unparalleled golden age for the existence of Israel's national unity kingdom.