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Answer Most certainly Solomon's son Rehoboam became king. However, as mentioned above, due to his taxation policy his kingdom was nowhere as extensive was his father Solomon's.

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In 1 Kings chapter 12, Rehoboam succeeded Solomon as king of the United Kingdom of Israel. However, the swingeing taxes that his father had unwisely imposed, along with Rehoboam's arrogant insistence on continuing to impose them, regardless of hardship, resulted in the rebellion of the north. The northern kingdom, known as Israel, broke away under Jeroboam, while Rehoboam continued as king of the southern kingdom of Judah. 1 Kings is part of the Deuteronomic history, believed to have been written in the sixth century BCE, some four hundred years after the time of Solomon.

Rehoboam and Jeroboam may have been real, historic people, but many scholars doubt the existence of King Solomon. Archaelogists can find no evidence of a substantial city at Jerusalem during the time attributed to Solomon and it seems unlikely that the United Kingdom ever existed.

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