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Our chapter concludes the detailed story of Solomon, third king and last ruler of the United Kingdom of Israel (I Kings 1-11). In this final chapter of the story of Solomon, we read of his fall from God\u2019s grace, due to his marriage to hundreds of foreign women who led him to worship their foreign gods (I Kings 11:1-7). From here on Scripture details God\u2019s anger at Solomon and his punishment, particularly the adversaries God raises against Solomon, Hadad and Rezon, and the rebellion of Jeroboam (verses 9-40). Our Chapter ends with a chronological summary of King Solomon\u2019s reign, a brief notice of Solomon\u2019s death and mention of his successor.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Just prior to these concluding verses, Scripture includes what seems like a kind of bibliographical note: \u201cThe other events of Solomon\u2019s reign, and all his actions and his wisdom, are recorded in the Book of the Acts of Solomon\u201d (verse 41).<\/span><\/p>\n

This \u201cbook\u201d seems to have been a more complete historical record of the reign of King Solomon that served as a source for the compilation of the Books of Kings.<\/span><\/p>\n

The medieval Biblical commentator Rabbi David Kimhi (Radak) understands this bibliographic note to refer to \u201cbooks that Solomon composed in his wisdom, but which are no longer found among us\u201d. These books are in addition to the three biblical books traditionally attributed to Solomon: Proverbs, Song of Songs and Ecclesiastes (see Seder Olam Rabbah, Chapter 15 and Song of Songs Rabbah 1:1:6 and 10).<\/span><\/p>\n

Don Isaac Abarbanel (Portuguese Jewish statesman, Bible commentator, died Venice 1508) notes in an extensive comment on I Kings 11:41 that it was the custom of each Israelite king to appoint a scholar to record in a book all the daily acts of that king. One of these books is what is referred to in our Chapter as \u201cthe Book of the Acts of Solomon\u201d.\u00a0 Books concerning other Israelite kings are incorporated in a lost \u201cBook of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel or the Kings of Judah\u201d. A prophet would select from the stories recorded in this Book the most official and instructive narratives and these were compiled in the Books of Kings that have come down to us. Some of the remaining stories of the Israelite kings were incorporated by Ezra in the biblical Books of Chronicles (see Talmud Bavli Baba Batra 15a), as is written concerning King Solomon: \u201cThe other events of Solomon\u2019s reign, early and late, are recorded in the chronicle of the prophet Nathan and in the prophecies of Ahijah the Shilonite and in the visions of Jedo the seer concerning Jeroboam son of Nebat\u201d (II Chronicles 9:29). Significantly, Abarbanel\u2019s approach seems to prefigure the general approach of much of modern Biblical criticism.<\/span><\/p>\n

Image: “Vanity of Vanities” Old and meditative King Solomon, by Isaak Asknaziy (1856-1902).<\/span><\/p>\n","image":{"ID":62176,"id":62176,"title":"1kings11-vanity - Solomon","filename":"1kings11-vanity-Solomon.jpeg","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/1kings11-vanity-Solomon.jpeg","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/the-book-of-the-acts-of-solomon\/1kings11-vanity-solomon\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"1kings11-vanity-solomon","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":62172,"date":"2019-09-02 06:58:14","modified":"2019-09-02 06:58:25","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":600,"height":366,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/1kings11-vanity-Solomon-150x150.jpeg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/1kings11-vanity-Solomon-300x183.jpeg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":183,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/1kings11-vanity-Solomon.jpeg","medium_large-width":600,"medium_large-height":366,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/1kings11-vanity-Solomon.jpeg","large-width":600,"large-height":366,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/1kings11-vanity-Solomon.jpeg","1536x1536-width":600,"1536x1536-height":366,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/1kings11-vanity-Solomon.jpeg","2048x2048-width":600,"2048x2048-height":366,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/1kings11-vanity-Solomon.jpeg","post_full_size-width":600,"post_full_size-height":366,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/1kings11-vanity-Solomon.jpeg","home_baner-width":600,"home_baner-height":366}},"embedded_video":"","video_duration":"","show_fb_comments":true,"credit_media":""},"tile":{"top_caption":"","main_caption":"The Book of the Acts of Solomon","main_caption_size":"1","sub_caption":"Were there other historical sources for biblical history?","preview_embedded":"","preview_image":{"ID":62176,"id":62176,"title":"1kings11-vanity - 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