Text: 1 Kings 10:26-29
OT Text Referred to: Deuteronomy 17:16-17
Subject: Solomon's violation of the king's torah
Source: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Contrast
Anchor Text: Deut 17:14-20 — The Law of the King
Significance: The Deuteronomic "law of the king" prohibits three specific excesses: acquiring many horses (especially from Egypt), taking many wives, and accumulating excessive silver and gold (לֹא יַרְבֶּה, lo yarbeh, "he must not multiply," repeated three times). 1 Kings 10:26-29 documents Solomon violating all three: 1,400 chariots and 12,000 horses imported from Egypt, with silver "as common as stones" in Jerusalem. The narrator's itemized account of Solomon's wealth reads as a deliberate catalog of Deuteronomy 17 violations, inviting readers to measure the king's conduct against the Torah's standard. The contrast between the Deuteronomic ideal of a king who reads the law daily and the reality of Solomon's imperial accumulation exposes the monarchy's fundamental failure.