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A:We do not know whether Kings David and Solomon were popular with their contemporaries because the accounts that we have were written many centuries later, based on oral traditions that had no doubt altered drastically over time, just as the legends of King Arthur were to develop in Britain over the last thousand years. The later Hebrews wanted a glorious past, and the legends of David and Solomon provided that glorious past. In The Bible, they ruled over a magnificent empire that future generations would be proud of.

Some scholars believe that the account of King David was also coloured by the desire of those in the kingdom of Judah to be associated with the brief period of military expansion. They say that this really occurred under King Omri of the northern kingdom of Israel, but was written in the scriptures back into the time so that King David of the United Monarchy achieved those victories. In the Bible, David was the forerunner of the Judahite kings, so his victories reflected on the people of Judah. Meanwhile, the kingdom of Israel had been destroyed in 722 BCE and its kings could not propagate a rival version of events, but nevertheless the Samaritans never accepted the Books of Samuel and Kings.

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