time: Heb. days
forty years: Josephus says fourscore years; which is sufficiently absurd. Calmet supposes him to have been 18 years old when he came to the throne, and 58 when he died. 1Ki 2:11
Reciprocal: 1Ki 11:4 - when Solomon 2Ch 9:30 - Solomon Ecc 1:1 - king