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King Solomon

In Our Time: Religion

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Solomon - The Son of Bathsheba

Solomon was the son by bathsheba to be his successor. His reign begins, as pretty much all the reigns around that time begin, with the putting down of any other claimants. But he also has put to death a david's great military commander,. A brutal, brilliant man, joab. And then er we go to solomon. You're building up for a contrast. An awful lot of solomon is like trying to read about kimil sung. He's so elevated into the status of this semi deified beingThat actually the rounded personality that we get of saul, the first king, disappears and w we get glimpses of the real man at the beginning and

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