Solomon, (about1010 ~ 931); He is the son of David, the second monarch of the ancient United Kingdom of Israel. He was born wise and was praised as the king of wisdom by Israel. After David's death, he became the third monarch of Israel and reigned for more than 40 years. He was also the last monarch before the split of the United Kingdom of Israel. According to legend, he wrote many works before his death, including Proverbs, Songs of Songs and Ecclesiastes, and made extensive research on animals and plants and astronomy and geography in history.

Chinese name: Solomon

Solomon

Alias: King of Wisdom

Nationality: Israel

Ethnic group: Jewish.

Place of birth: City of David

Date of birth: 10 10 years ago.

Date of death: 93 1 year ago.

Occupation: the third monarch of Israel

Faith: Judaism

Major achievements: A temple was built.

Develop commercial trade

Create a situation in which all countries come to Korea and make the country reach its peak.

Representative works: Proverbs, Songs of Songs, Ecclesiastes.

Father: David

Mother: Bathsheba

The life of the character

King Solomon is the greatest king in the history of the Jewish nation and one of the most legendary kings in the world. According to the Bible, after Solomon became king at the age of 20, he prayed to God for wisdom in his dream. God not only gave him unparalleled wisdom, but also gave him endless glory, wealth and virtue.

From then on, Solomon conquered the hearts of China people with wisdom, especially stories such as "Parents and Children's Intelligence Judgment Case", which showed the power of his wisdom. King Solomon's great wealth was unprecedented and unparalleled at that time: he built the famous Jewish temple and welcomed back the "golden chest" where God kept the Oracle; He engaged in economic construction and urban construction, and built luxurious palaces and solid city walls; He established two fleets and sent them overseas to develop his business vigorously; He formed a powerful navy, not only for expeditionary expansion, but also for the development of domestic trade.

Personality assessment

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.

Israel

The cause of division

King Solomon's extravagance and waste in his later years aggravated people's dissatisfaction.

According to the Bible, this split is due to the fact that King Solomon followed his concubines to worship and serve many gods in his later years, instead of worshipping the Lord according to the example of his father King David, which aroused the anger of the Lord. The Lord sent Ahijah, the prophet of Shiloh, to tear one of his new coats into twelve pieces outside Jerusalem, and asked Jeroboam to take ten pieces, which meant that after Solomon's death, God would tear the United Kingdom into two kingdoms, with the northern part of Israel ruled by Jeroboam?I, while the southern Jews and Benjamin remained two tribes and continued to be ruled by Rehoboam, the son of King Solomon.

Post-split situation

In order to consolidate his national power, Jeroboam set up altars of golden calves in Bethel and Dan, which were comparable to the temple in Jerusalem in the south, but also made the people in the north fall into the great sin of idolatry. The political center of northern Israel was originally located in Shechem, and later moved to Tirzah in Beijing. When Omri became king, he bought Mount Samaria from Samaria and built the city as its capital. In the 60 years after the North-South split, the Civil War was frequent. It was not until King Jehoshaphat of Judah and King Ahab of Israel got married that the relationship between the two countries was gradually repaired.

Israel in the north was destroyed by Assyria in 72 1 BC, and Judaism in the south was destroyed by Babylon in 583 BC. After the destruction of northern Israel, the Assyrian king adopted a very strict policy of racial migration, moving most people from northern Israel to various parts of the Assyrian empire, and also moving people from other client countries to live in Samaria. Therefore, Samaritan is the descendant of a few Israelis who stayed in the north and different nationalities who moved to Samaria. Their blood and religious beliefs are mixed.

The influence of division

In 538 BC, King Ju Lushi of Persia issued an imperial edict to allow Jews to return to Jewish land. So, under the leadership of Shebasha, Zerubbabel, Ezra, Nehemiah and others, a group of Jews came back from Babylon and rebuilt the walls of Jerusalem. At this time, the Jews obviously refused to recognize that Samaria was also a descendant of Israel (Nehemiah 2:20). The racial, political, cultural and religious barriers between Samaritans and Jews have deteriorated and gone from bad to worse. Samaritan's religious beliefs are extremely conservative. They only believe in the Five Scriptures of Moses handed down from their ancestors and refuse to accept other prophets or wisdom books. They also insisted that Mount Kirishin was a sacred mountain dedicated to the Lord, and built a temple there, which was destroyed by Hilkanu of the Jewish Macabies Dynasty in 128 BC.

history

According to the Book of Kings, the queen of Sheba admired King Solomon's wisdom and came to Jerusalem with her servants, spices, precious stones and gold. During the dinner, she asked King Solomon many questions, and King Solomon gave her extremely satisfactory answers one by one. King Solomon's erudition, the luxury of the palace, the sumptuous feast and even the exquisite costumes of the servants all surprised her.

Anecdotal allusions

Their relationship is further stated in some Jewish documents and legends. The queen of Sheba is beautiful and clever, and King Solomon is strong and witty. As soon as they met, they were fascinated by each other's looks and talents, and they fell in love. On her way back to China, the Queen gave birth to a half-blood son named Menelik, which means "the son of wisdom". This son later succeeded to the throne, and was called Menelik I. Knowing his own life, he went to Jerusalem to meet his biological father, King Solomon. When he left Jerusalem for home, King Solomon sent some young Israelis to escort him. These Israelis later settled in the kingdom of Sheba and intermarried with the locals. Menelik I and the descendants of these Israelis became the ancestors of "Beta Israel".

Yadonia

The cause of the matter

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. However, the other faction, led by Nathan the prophet and Zadok the priest, strongly supported Solomon, the son of Bathsheba, as king. They cooperated with Bathsheba's activities in front of the old king David and urged him to formally elect Solomon to succeed him before his death.

The whole story.

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 his half-brother on the pretext of "a trivial matter" and competed for the throne.

Major achievements

Trade development

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.

Build temples and palaces

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. Therefore, Solomon paid the king of Tyre twenty Asher cities as a price (Kings 9: 1 1 ~ 13).

Friendly relations with foreign countries

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 Palace and the wisdom of King Solomon surprised the Queen (Shang Wei 10: 5), leaving a series of beautiful legends about the Queen and Solomon. He also has a beautiful love, and his sweet and romantic love with the Queen of Sheba is a story of an era.

The Queen of Sheba admired King Solomon's wisdom and came to Jerusalem with her servants, spices, precious stones and gold.

During the dinner, she asked King Solomon many questions, and King Solomon gave her extremely satisfactory answers one by one.

King Solomon's erudition, the luxury of the palace, the sumptuous banquet, and even the exquisite clothes of the servants all surprised her.

Their relationship is further stated in some Jewish documents and legends.

The queen of Sheba is beautiful and clever, and King Solomon is strong and witty.

As soon as they met, they were fascinated by each other's looks and talents, and they fell in love.

On her way back to China, the Queen gave birth to a half-blood son named Menelik, which means "the son of wisdom".

This son later succeeded to the throne and was called Menelik I.

Knowing his own life, he went to Jerusalem to meet his biological father King Solomon after he became king.

When he left Jerusalem for home, King Solomon sent some young Israelis to escort him.

Classic famous saying

King Solomon said, it is better to rebuke a wise man's heart than to beat a fool a hundred times. Before destruction, the heart will be proud, before honor, it will be humble.

King Solomon said: Where the heart is, there is treasure.

King Solomon said that what was done will happen again, and what was done will be done again. There is nothing new under the sun.

King Solomon said, Vanity is vanity, and everything is vanity. Everything is catching shadows. Will be the past. What do you get when everything will be a thing of the past?