Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, and all that he did, and his wisdom, aren’t they written in the book of the acts of Solomon?
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 41. Words, or transactions. Bible.—Book. This book is lost, with divers others mentioned in holy writ. Challoner.—Nathan, Ahias, and Addo, composed these journals. 2 Chronicles 9:29. Bible.—Similar works were kept at the courts of Persia and of Babylon. Esther 6:1. 1 Ezra 6:2. Plutarch quotes the journal of Alexander; and Tacitus (An. iii.) informs us, that the smallest occurrences were specified in journals, at Rome, while things of greater importance were recorded in the annals. The books of days, are cited in the Paral. so that we cannot suppose that these journals are the same with that work. Calmet.—God was pleased that those writings should not come down to us; so that we can only speak from conjecture of the repentance of Solomon. Salien, A. 3058.