Talk:Solomon

• - The period of Solomon's reign:

"...King Solomon levied to build the house of Jehovah and his own house and the Mound and the wall of Jerusalem and Hazor and Megiddo and Gezer." 1 Kings 9:15b (NWT)

• - Walls: One example given by Aharoni is the evidence of solid city walls built with large stones “cut into oblong, rectangular blocks, fitted together with precision.” In contrast, in countries neighboring Israel, parts of the city walls “were made of brick and wood.” Furthermore, cities rebuilt at about the time of Solomon give evidence of careful planning, with neat lines of houses and carefully laid-out streets. - (1 Kings 9:15). - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yohanan_Aharoni) Scholars speculate if ancient walls discovered in Jerusalem may be linked to ancient Judean King Solomon. - (http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/02/100226-king-solomon-wall-jerusalem-bible/)

• - Road-planning: Aharoni analyzes the ruins of “four towns in Judah built according to the same fundamental plan . . . Beer-sheba, Tell Beit Mirsim, Beth-shemesh, and Mizpah.” How this contrasts with another great center of civilization—the earlier Mesopotamian city of Ur! Respecting it, Sir Leonard Woolley wrote: “There had been no attempt at town-planning . . . The unpaved streets, many of them blind alleys . . . formed a maze in which it would have been easy to lose one’s way.”

"...ships of Tarshish would come carrying gold and silver, ivory, and apes and peacocks." 1 Kings 10:22b (NWT)

• - Foreign Trade: Trade with Sheba: It has documented the there was trade with Sheba. - (http://www.bib-arch.org/bar/article.asp?PubID=BSBA&Volume=36&Issue=1&ArticleID=28) Knowledge one of Sheba sources of wealth emerges - ancient Sabaeans Gold mines in Ethiopia (http://m.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/feb/12/archaeologists-and-quest-for-sheba-goldmines?cat=science&type=article) Word origins: The Hebrew names (Plural: tuk·ki·yim′; singular: tuki) is to be connected with the Old Tamil name for the peacock, (tokei). (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Peafowl#Taxonomy_and_naming) - 1 Kings 10:22; 2 Chronicles 9:21. The Hebrew word qohph (Q-H-P) may be related to the Sanskrit word kapi for an ape or a monkey. Information on Phoenician ships (http://phoenicia.org/ships.html).

• - Quality of household items: Aharoni also comments on the improvement in household utensils about the time of Solomon’s reign. “The change in material culture . . . is discernible not only in luxury items but also especially in ceramics . . . The quality of the pottery and its firing improved beyond all recognition . . . There suddenly appeared a rich repertoire of various types of vessels.”

• - Solomonic gates: Hazor, Gezer and Megiddo, see the report on the excavations at Hazor, by Yigael Yadin, in his work The Art of Warfare in Biblical Lands (1963, Vol. II, p. 288), 1 Kings 9:15.

• - "So-called Solomon's (copper) mines:" "Copper mines in southern Jordan were active centuries earlier than previously believed, according to a new study that suggests the area was producing the metal at the same time the biblical figure of King Solomon is said to have built Jerusalem's first Jewish temple." - National Geographic. - (http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/10/081028-king-solomon-copper-mine-missions.html).--Anaccuratesource 23:57, 30 August 2012 (PDT)