Home · When · The United Kingdom · Solomon turns back to God and dies Death · The United Kingdom 975 BC
Solomon turns back to God and dies Dated from the sources quoted below
True span 4004 BC – AD 100
Beginnings · 4004 BC – 1996 BC · 12 events Beginnings 4004 BC – 1996 BC The Patriarchs · 1996 BC – 1635 BC · 34 events Patriarchs 1996 BC – 1635 BC Egypt and the Exodus · 1635 BC – 1451 BC · 19 events Exodus 1635 BC – 1451 BC Conquest and Settlement · 1451 BC – 1400 BC · 7 events Conquest 1451 BC – 1400 BC The Judges · 1405 BC – 1095 BC · 13 events Judges 1405 BC – 1095 BC The United Kingdom · 1095 BC – 975 BC · 38 events United Kgdm 1095 BC – 975 BC Israel and Judah · 933 BC – 721 BC · 27 events Israel & Judah 933 BC – 721 BC Judah Alone · 721 BC – 586 BC · 22 events Judah alone 721 BC – 586 BC The Exile · 586 BC – 538 BC · 7 events Exile 586 BC – 538 BC Return and Restoration · 538 BC – 400 BC · 13 events Return 538 BC – 400 BC Between the Testaments · 400 BC – 4 BC · 8 events Between 400 BC – 4 BC The Life of Jesus · 6 BC – AD 33 · 42 events Jesus 6 BC – AD 33 The Apostles and the Early Church · AD 30 – AD 100 · 29 events The Church AD 30 – AD 100 1095 BC — Israel asks Samuel for a king 1095 BC — Samuel anoints Saul king 1093 BC — Saul takes the kingdom over Israel 1085 BC — David is born in Bethlehem 1063 BC — Samuel anoints David at Bethlehem 1060 BC — David takes refuge with Achish of Gath 1057 BC — David raids from Ziklag 1055 BC — Saul and Jonathan die on Mount Gilboa 1053 BC — David is made king over Judah at Hebron 1048 BC — Abner goes over to David and is killed 1048 BC — David takes the stronghold of Zion 1046 BC — David builds the city of David 1045 BC — The ark is brought up to Jerusalem 1044 BC — God's promise to David of a lasting house 1038 BC — The Ammonites shame David's envoys; war follows 1035 BC — Joab besieges Rabbah of the Ammonites 1034 BC — David and Bathsheba; Nathan's rebuke 1034 BC — Solomon is born 1032 BC — Amnon wrongs Tamar; Absalom kills him 1027 BC — Absalom is brought back to Jerusalem 1023 BC — Absalom's revolt; David flees over the Jordan 1021 BC — Three years of famine for Saul's bloodguilt 1017 BC — David numbers Israel; the plague and the threshing floor 1017 BC — David gathers the materials for the temple 1015 BC — Adonijah's bid fails; Solomon is made king 1015 BC — David dies after forty years as king 1014 BC — Solomon marries Pharaoh's daughter 1013 BC — Hiram of Tyre sends timber for the temple 1012 BC — The foundations of the temple are laid 1005 BC — The temple is finished in Solomon's eleventh year 1004 BC — Solomon dedicates the temple; the glory fills the house 992 BC — Solomon finishes his own house 975 BC — Solomon turns back to God and dies Jonathan's raid; Saul's unlawful sacrifice — placed by its order in the narrative Saul spares Agag and is rejected — placed by its order in the narrative David kills Goliath in the valley of Elah — placed by its order in the narrative Solomon asks for wisdom; the two mothers — placed by its order in the narrative The queen of Sheba visits Solomon — placed by its order in the narrative the whole thread → Told in Opening words from the World English Bible (public domain); the passage list is in-house
Who and where Names and references: STEPBible, Tyndale House Cambridge · CC BY 4.0 · coordinates: OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding · CC BY 4.0
How we know the date Ussher's Annals (1650) gives 975 BC (its year of the world 3029 c).
Written in-house from the sources below · every year is a quotation
The sources, word for word “3029. c. Salomon, postquam relictis vanitatibus, quibus in sencetute sua indulserat, ad saniorem mentem rediisset testata in libro Keclesiasta toti Meelesia resipiseentia sua, reconeiliatus Deo!, mortem demum obiit, quum 40. regnasset annos™.”
Ussher, Annales Veteris Testamenti (1650), Latin text in The Whole Works of James Ussher, vols. VIII–XI (Dublin, 1864) · vol. VIII, AM 3029 c · gives 975 BC Sources