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Solomon born

1034 BCUssher date

2 Samuel 12:24–25; 1 Chronicles 22:9

Bathsheba bore David a second son, Solomon; God loved him and sent word through Nathan to call him Jedidiah, “loved by Yahweh.”

David comforted Bathsheba his wife, and went in to her, and lay with her. She bore a son, and he called his name Solomon. Yahweh loved him

2 Samuel 12:24 (World English Bible)

The name Solomon is related to shalom, peace. God had told David that his son would be a man of rest who would build the temple (1 Chronicles 22:9).

Dating notes

Ussher, 1034 BC.

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