King James Version
1 Kings 11:42 in the King James Version says “And the time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel was forty years. time: Heb. days” — study this verse from 1 Kings chapter 11 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And the time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel was forty years. time: Heb. days”
1 Kings 11:42 · KJV
Solomon sought therefore to kill Jeroboam. And Jeroboam arose, and fled into Egypt, unto Shishak king of Egypt, and was in Egypt until the death of Solomon.
And the rest of the acts of Solomon, and all that he did, and his wisdom, are they not written in the book of the acts of Solomon? acts: or, words, or, things
And the time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel was forty years. time: Heb. days
And Solomon slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David his father: and Rehoboam his son reigned in his stead. Rehoboam: Gr. Roboam
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“And the time”
H3117a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an asso
who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
“over all Israel”
H3478he will rule as god; jisral, a symbolical name of jacob; also (typically) of his posterity
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