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This chapter details the extent of Solomon\u2019s rule in both geographical and fiscal terms. He was unchallenged anywhere \u201cfrom the river\u201d (i.e., the Euphrates) all the way south to the Egyptian border (v.1), and he maintained a lavish and expensive life-style (2-3, 6 ff.). The literary question here is verse 4, which does not appear to add anything of substance to verse 1, which already established the sphere of his influence, save for the inclusion of the appositive phrase \u201cfrom Tifsah to Gaza.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

A stipulation of traditional exegesis is that nothing in the Bible is redundant or extraneous, so what are we to derive from these words?<\/span><\/p>\n

Radak reported on a talmudic disagreement over the significance of these two place names:<\/span><\/p>\n

Rav and Shmuel [disagreed]. One said Tifsah was at one end of the world and Gaza was at [the other] end of the world. One said Tifsah and Gaza were adjacent to each other. Just as he ruled [uncontested] over Tifsah and Gaza, so was he able to rule over the rest of the world (Megillah 11a).<\/span><\/p>\n

Another talmudic discussion pertinent to this chapter came apropos of verse 31, which describes the great stones\u2014that likely served in the foundation of the Temple\u2014as \u201chewn.\u201d The rabbis saw this as an ostensible contradiction to a later verse: \u201cNo hammer or axe or any iron tool was heard in the House while it was being built\u201d (6:7), and resolved it as follows: \u201cThey prepared them outside and brought them within\u201d (Sotah 48b).<\/span><\/p>\n

The rabbis were as meticulous in their investigation of the text of Kings as Solomon himself was in his design and construction of the Temple.<\/span><\/p>\n

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