Melachim Alef 11:43

43 And Sh’lomo slept with Avotav, and was buried in the Ir Dovid Aviv: and Rechav‘am bno reigned in his place.

Melachim Alef 11:43 Meaning and Commentary

1 Kings 11:43

And Solomon slept with his fathers
Died as they did:

and was buried in the city of David his father;
not in Bethlehem, but Zion, ( 1 Kings 2:10 )

and Rehoboam his son reigned in his stead;
of whom more in the following chapter. Though nothing is said of Solomon's repentance, there is no doubt but he was a good man, repented of his sins, and was saved; as may be concluded from the commendations of him after his death, ( 2 Chronicles 11:17 ) from the promise of God that he made, that his mercy should not depart from him, though he chastised him, ( 2 Samuel 7:14 2 Samuel 7:15 ) from his being an inspired writer, who were all holy men, ( 2 Peter 1:20 ) , and especially from his writing the book of Ecclesiastes after his fall, which contains a full acknowledgment of all his evils, a recantation of them, and repentance for them. Abulpharagius ^F2, an Arabic writer, rashly asserts that he died without repentance.

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FOOTNOTES:

F2 Hist. Dynast. Dyn. 3. p. 55.

Melachim Alef 11:43 In-Context

41 And the rest of the acts of Sh’lomo, and all that he did, and his chochmah, are they not written in the Sefer Divrei Sh’lomo?

42 And the time that Sh’lomo reigned in Yerushalayim over kol Yisroel was arba’im shanah.

43 And Sh’lomo slept with Avotav, and was buried in the Ir Dovid Aviv: and Rechav‘am bno reigned in his place.