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Solomon was the author of most of the chapters written in the book of Proverbs. He was wise in natural science, psychology, philosophy, finance, law and management.
Among many other things he also enjoyed debating about the life hereafter. Many public forums were about the philosophical topics of the Torah and the nature of God.
Topics like; Why would the character of God allow evil to live in the world created by him that was perfect? These state sponsored
councils of the Sanhedrin were on a variety of international interests also.
While debating occurred under his feet the great King Solomon sat upon his gigantic throne chair made of Ivory tusks covered in gold. The throne also had two gigantic lions on each side. These two lions are now the an important influence in Japan. Upon every house you will see two lions, a male and a female. This fact has been traced to the two lions on each side of Solomon's Throne.
LINK TO Story of one Israeli Tribe Moves to Japan, including outstanding documentation of pictures
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The first book of Solomon's proverbs.
The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel; To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding; ................
To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;
To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.
A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding
shall attain unto wise counsels:
To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their
dark sayings.
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise
wisdom and instruction.
My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy
neck.
My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.
If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the
innocent without cause:
Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down
into the pit:
We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:
Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:
My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:
For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.
And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.
So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life
of the owners thereof.
Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets:
She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the
city she uttereth her words, saying,
How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in
their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make
known my words unto you.
Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no
man regarded;
But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:
I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;
When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a
whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.
Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early,
but they shall not find me:
For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:
They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.
Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own
devices.
For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools
shall destroy them.
But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of
evil.
Solomon's Book of Proverbs: Chapter 1
My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee;
So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to
understanding;
Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding;
If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures;
Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of
God.
For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and
understanding.
He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckler to them that walk
uprightly.
He keepeth the paths of judgment, and preserveth the way of his saints.
Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity; yea,
every good path.
When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy
soul;
Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee:
To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaketh froward
things;
Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;
Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of the wicked;
Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths:
To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth
with her words;
Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.
For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead.
None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life.
That thou mayest walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the
righteous.
For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it.
But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be
rooted out of it.
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