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Solomon
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synonyms: Jedidiah, שְׁלֹמֹה ???
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Definition:[990 - 931 BCE]was, according to the Hebrew Bible, Old Testament, Quran, and Hadiths, a fabulously wealthy and wise king of Israel who succeeded his father, King David. [...] He is described as the third king of the United Monarchy, which would break apart into the northern Kingdom of Israel and the southern Kingdom of Judah shortly after his death.[...]According to the biblical account, Solomon had 700 wives and 300 concubines. The wives were described as foreign princesses, including Pharaoh's daughter and women of Moab, Ammon, Edom, Sidon and of the Hittites. His marriage to Pharaoh's daughter appears to have cemented a political alliance with Egypt whereas he clung to his other wives and concubines "in love".text from Wikipedia, licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike
image: Mark Twain. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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"[...] Don't you know about the harem? Solomon had one; he had about a million wives."
"Why, yes, dat's so; I—I'd done forgot it. A harem's a bo'd'n-house, I reck'n. Mos' likely dey has rackety times in de nussery. En I reck'n de wives quarrels considable; en dat 'crease de racket. Yit dey say Sollermun de wises' man dat ever live'. I doan' take no stock in dat. Bekase why: would a wise man want to live in de mids' er sich a blim-blammin' all de time? [...]"
Mark Twain. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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Solomon's writings and history both show that he was a libertine, a tyrant, and a polygamist. His tyrannical monopoly-of seven hundred wives and three hundred prostitutes, making him a practica "Free-lover" on a large scale, is an indelible stigma upon his character.
Kersey and Lydia Graves. The Bible of Bibles (1879)
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Well has Solomon said—“Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.”
Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre (1847)
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Lo here, the wise king Dan Solomon,
I trow that he had wives more than one;
As would to God it lawful were to me
To be refreshed half so oft as he!
Geoffrey Chaucer. The Canterbury Tales: The Wife of Bath's Prologue (1400)
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And you know why you didn't like Jesus any more? I'll ltell you. Because, one, you didn't approve of his going into the synagogue and throwing all the tables and idols all over the place. That was very rude, very Unnecessary. You were sure that Solomon or somebody wouldn't have done anything like that.
J.D. Salinger. Franny and Zooey, p.163 (1955)
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They insisted that their father take them to see the overwhelming novelty of the sages of Memphis that was being advertised at the entrance of a tent that, according to what was said, had belonged to King Solomon.
Gabriel García Márquez. One Hundred Years of Solitude, p.18 (1970)
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