And the time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel was forty years.
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Barnes' Notes
Josephus gave Solomon a reign of 80 years, either because he wished to increase the glory of his country’s greatest king, or through his having a false reading in his copy of the Septuagint Version.…
Adam Clarke
Solomon reigned - forty years - Josephus says fourscore years, which is sufficiently absurd. Calmet supposes him to have been eighteen years old when he came to the throne, and that he died A.M. 3029,…
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, Kg1 11:41.…
Cambridge Bible
forty years The same length of reign as that of Saul and David. If Solomon's accession were 1015 b.c., his death took place in 975 b. c. Josephus gives -eighty years" as the length of the reign. But…