The Diplomat: Solomon Islands Doesn’t Want to Depend on China. Will the West Give It a Choice?
The site of the future set of wharfs at Bina village, the Solomon Islands, as viewed from the sea. Credit: Anne-Marie Brady Under a brilliant blue sky in the tiny village of Bina, a local landowner ...
Solomon Islands Doesn’t Want to Depend on China. Will the West Give It a Choice?
The Solomon Islands, a former British protectorate in the Pacific, is striving to recover from a civil conflict that brought it to the brink of collapse. More than 90% of the islanders are ethnic ...
He is also the subject of many later references and legends, most notably in the Testament of Solomon, part of biblical apocrypha from the 1st century CE. The historicity of Solomon is the subject of significant debate.
King Solomon was the wisest man who ever lived and also one of the most foolish. God gifted him with unsurpassed wisdom, which Solomon squandered by disobeying God's commandments. Some of Solomon’s most famous achievements were his building projects, particularly the temple in Jerusalem.
Solomon is known for being the king of Israel who built the first Temple in Jerusalem. He was also the second (after his father, David) and last king of a unified Israel, which was at the height of its power during his reign.
Solomon, whose name means peace or peaceful, was the second child produced by King David and Bathsheba. God referred to him as Jedidiah which means "beloved of Jehovah" (2Samuel 12:25).