King James Version (KJV)
1 Kings 11:42
“And the time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel [was] forty years.”
Verse in context — 1 Kings 11
40
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.
41
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?
42
And the time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel [was] forty years.
43
And Solomon slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David his father: and Rehoboam his son reigned in his stead.
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Solomon’s reign, the temple’s construction, and the kingdom’s division.
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