The reign of Solomon (c. 961-930 b.c.e.), king of Israel, was the culmination of two generations of an immense political and social transformation in Palestine. A weak and loosely organized confederation of Israelite tribes had been welded by the military and political astuteness of David into a powerful monarchy with a centralized national administration and religious center at Jerusalem. The Philistine harassment had been conclusively ended, the hitherto unconquered Canaanite cities had been... więcej

Salem Press Encyclopedia, 2022. 2p.