BIBLE DICTIONARY
Solomon
Peaceable.

Son of David and Bathsheba. His birth (2 Sam. 5: 14; 2 Sam. 12: 24; 1 Chr. 3: 5; 1 Chr. 14: 4; Matt. 1: 6); crowned on the rebellion of Adonijah (1 Kgs. 1: 10-53; 1 Chr. 23: 1); is charged by his father (1 Kgs. 2: 1-9; 1 Chr. 22: 6-19; 1 Chr. 28: 9-21); succeeds (1 Kgs. 2: 12; 1 Chr. 29: 22-23); makes affinity with Pharaoh (1 Kgs. 3: 1); sacrifices in the high places (1 Kgs. 3: 3); the vision at Gibeon (1 Kgs. 3: 5-15; 1 Kgs. 9: 2; 2 Chr. 1: 7-12; 2 Chr. 7: 12); his judgment between two mothers (1 Kgs. 3: 16-28); his retainers (1 Kgs. 4: 1-19); his dominion (1 Kgs. 4: 21); his wisdom (1 Kgs. 4: 29; 1 Kgs. 5: 12); his proverbs (1 Kgs. 4: 32); his connection with Hiram (1 Kgs. 5; 2 Chr. 2); builds the temple (1 Kgs. 6; 1 Kgs. 7: 13-51; 2 Chr. 3; 4; Acts 7: 47); his house and the house of the forest of Lebanon (1 Kgs. 7: 1-8); dedicates the temple (ch. 8; 2 Chr. 5; 6; 2 Chr. 7: 1-11); his second vision at Gibeon (1 Kgs. 9: 1-9; 2 Chr. 7: 12-22); his yearly offerings (1 Kgs. 9: 25; 2 Chr. 8: 12); visited by the queen of Sheba (1 Kgs. 10: 1-13; 2 Chr. 9: 1-12; Matt. 12: 42; Luke 11: 31); his fondness for foreign wives and foreign gods (1 Kgs. 11: 1-8); God will rend the kingdom from him (1 Kgs. 11: 9-13); his adversaries (1 Kgs. 11: 14-28); Ahijah's prophecy (1 Kgs. 11: 30-39); the book of the acts of Solomon (1 Kgs. 11: 41); dies (1 Kgs. 11: 43; 2 Chr. 9: 31); the Proverbs of Solomon (Prov. 1: 1; Song. 1: 1). N.T. references: Matt. 6: 29; Matt. 12: 42; Luke 11: 31; Luke 12: 27.