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King Solomon with his wives. Illustrated in 1668 by Giovanni Battista Venanzi. According to the biblical account, Solomon had 1000 wives and 300 concubines. [39] The wives were described as foreign princesses, including Pharaoh's daughter [40] and women of Moab, Ammon, Edom, Sidon and of the Hittites. His marriage to Pharaoh's daughter appears ...
Depiction by Giovanni Battista Venanzi of King Solomon being led astray into idolatry in his old age by his wives, 1668. Naamah ( Hebrew : נַעֲמָה , romanized : Naʿămā , lit. 'pleasant; lovely') was one of the 700 wives and 300 concubines of King Solomon and mother of his heir, Rehoboam , according to both 1 Kings 14:21–31 , and 2 ...
They hold that an author-compiler living after the Babylonian Exile recast the theme of the Books of Kings "from one of too many wives/women (consistent with Deut 17:17a) to one of alien wives, reflecting the same extreme xenophobia which finally carried the day in post-Exilic Yehud (cf. Ezra 9–10; Neh 13:23–30a), when Solomon is known to ...
According to First Book of Kings 11:1–13, [3] Solomon had broken the mandate of the Torah [4] by marrying foreign wives and being influenced by them, worshipping and building shrines to the Moabite and Ammonite gods: So the Lord became angry with Solomon because his heart had turned from the Lord God of Israel ...
Fresco of the Judgment of Solomon, Frauenberg, Styria Sculpture given either to Pietro Lamberti or to Nanni di Bartolo. It stands at the corner of the Doge's Palace in Venice (Italy), next to Porta della Carta. The Judgement of Solomon is a story from the Hebrew Bible in which Solomon ruled between two women who both claimed to be the mother of ...
The Queen of Sheba, [a] known as Bilqis [b] in Yemeni and Islamic tradition and as Makeda [c] in Ethiopian tradition, is a figure first mentioned in the Hebrew Bible.In the original story, she brings a caravan of valuable gifts for the Israelite King Solomon.
Solomon uses passionate language to describe his bride and their love (Song 4:1–15). Solomon clearly loved the Shulammite—and he admired her character as well as her beauty (Song 6:9). Everything about the Song of Solomon portrays the fact that this bride and groom were passionately in love and that there was mutual respect and friendship ...
He attempted to usurp the throne during the life of David (1 Kings 1:11ff). Solomon had him executed after being warned to remember his place in the line of succession per King David’s instruction regarding the crown. 1 Kings 1:32–35; 1:50–53; 2:13–25. Shephatiah, whose mother was Abital. Ithream, whose mother was Eglah, "David’s wife".