Solomon, a tragic story. Going from great wisdom to great foolishness in just 40 years of rule.
As your wonderful poem points out, 700 wives and 300 concubines were no picnic. If he saw two per day, it’d be almost two years before he saw them again.
It was a near certainty they’d fool around behind his back. Perhaps Solomon was the biggest cuckold of all time.
But forsaking God when he was so close to Him at one time was the greatest foolishness of all.
I can only hope Ecclesiastes was his work of repentance before his early death at 60.
On the art side, I like Tissot’s work the best. He really showed the multiple races that were likely in his harem.
Puckerosis drove the wedge between him and God. As I do for every human being, I wish for him eternal bliss serving God in heaven.