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Solomon lay. No bright sunset here, to be followed by a yet more glorious morning. He
had done more than any king to denationalize Israel. And on the morrow of his death,
rebellion within the land; outside its borders - Edom and Syria ready to spring to arms,
Egypt under Shishak gathering up its might; and only a Rehoboam to hold the rudder
of the State in the rising storm.
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