Graphic Bible · Scene 18 of 19

Late-life Solomon surveys Jerusalem after a forty-year reign; convey duration without written numerals.
Artwork is an interpretation. Scripture is quoted from the People's Open Bible.

1 Kings 11:42

Forty years over Israel

Solomon’s Divided Allegiance · 1 Kings 11

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42And the days that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel were forty years.

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