old] Betwixt fifty and threescore. Take him to be about twenty when he began to reign (for he had a son of a yeer old, chap. 14. 21.) He had reigned more then three yeers before he began to build (chap. 6. 1.) He was twenty yeers in building his great works (chap. 9. 10.) These summed up, make fourty three. Some yeers must be added to all these for spreading his fame thorowout the world, and for the queen of Sheba’s, and other kings coming to him, to hear his wisdom, and departing from him: and for his continuing in the services of the temple: yea, and for gathering together a thousand wives and concubines: and for that boldnesse they took to turn away his heart.