And the time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel was forty years.
Thus the time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel was forty years.
And the days that Solomon hath reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel are forty years,
And the time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel was forty years.
1 Kings — Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament).
F I R S T K I N G S CHAP. XI. This chapter begins with as melancholy a "but" as almost any we find in all the Bible. Hitherto we have read nothing of Solomon but what was great and good; but the lustre both of his goodness and…