King Solomon
In Our Time: Religion
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Maton Palmer, What Challenges Did Solomon Face?
Wriht overspent and put his own people into effective servitude, says Maton palmer. He also imposed upon his own people a levy of enforced labour for the building of osol educations - effectively making them slaves. And when he dies, tribes come to his successor rehoboam asking him to lift this terrible burden that your father had placed upon us. But then talks to his young men, who have grown up in the court of this riental despot, and they say, no, make it even harder. "My father scourged you with whips. I will scourge you with scorpions," said Wriht. 'This was a
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