Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>]

On 19/09/2005 21:04, Yigal Levin wrote:

> ...
> However, I don't think that we can take either Solomon's 40 years or David's
> literally. 40 is a typological number that means "a complete period of
> time". Besides which, the probability of a king ruling 40 years, and then
> his son being young enough to rule another 40, is very low. ...

Don't forget that Solomon was by no means David's oldest son, rather he 
was born when David was already well established as king, and was 
probably much younger than Absalom and Adonijah.

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Peter Kirk
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