DETAILS, FICTION AND DAVID HOFFMEISTER

Solomon's succession, sympathetically introduced, remains a coup. Behind Solomon stand: Zadok, the Judahite priest; Benaiah, the mercenary captain; and, the mercenaries of the cash, such as the Gittites. Solomon's administration, with its emphasis on community is effective as well as the exactions they demanded, hues the distinction with David. But

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