John Gill's Exposition on 1 Kings 11:42

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And the time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem, over all Israel, was forty years.] The same says Eupolemus f300, an Heathen writer, who makes him to live but fifty two years; which is the common tradition of the Jews, who suppose he was but twelve years of age when he began to reign; which is to be confuted from the age of his son Rehoboam, (see <111421>1 Kings 14:21). Josephus f301, on the other hand, makes him to live to too great an age, who says that he reigned eighty years, and lived to ninety four.

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