If you've been a Christian for some time, you will have inevitably heard of Solomon. He is a man with many different titles, and a man with multiple books of the Bible attributed to him. He is the son of king David. The wise king. The last great king of Israel. Jedidiah (which means loved by the Lord, 2 Sam. 12:25).He is known for his great wisdom, as well as for his great riches and many wives. Solomon is a man with a unique, complex, and dreadfully important to understand story. So let's dive in. References to Solomon This one's a doozy. According to the NASB translation, the Hebrew word for Solomon is found 287 times in 260 different verses in the Old Testament. In the New Testament, the Greek word for Solomon is found 12 times in 10 different verses. If you're doing the math on that, that's 299 direct references to Solomon throughout the Bible. If his name was spread out through every book, he'd still have 4.5 references in each book of the Bible. As we...
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