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AnswerThe biblical view is that Kings David and Solomon ruled Israel at the height of its powers, during the tenth century BCE. During the early to middle twentieth century, archaeologists dated many important finds by the biblical stories of those kings; they seemed so well to fit the prosperity of the United Monarchy.

Many modern archaeologists now recognise that the finds they had dated to the tenth century BCE, in order to harmonise there discoveries with the biblical accounts, really belonged to a much later period. They now say that Israel was at the height of its powers in the ninth century, under Kings Omri and Ahab. The southern Hebrew kingdom, Judah, was still only a backwater, while Israel was expanding aggressively among its neighbours.

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It was David who ruled for 40 years.

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