42And the time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel was forty years.
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And the days that David reigned over Israel were forty years: seven years reigned he in Hebron, and thirty and three years reigned he in Jerusalem.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 41-43)We have here the conclusion of Solomon’s story, and in it, 1. Reference is had to another history then extant, but (not being divinely inspired) since lost, the Book of the Acts of Solomon , 1 Kgs. 11:41. Probably this book was written by a chronologer or historiographer, whom Solomon employed to write his annals, out of which the sacred writer extracted what God saw fit to transmit to the church.…
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