Legends of the Patriarchs and Prophets / And Other Old Testament Characters from Various Sources

by S. Baring-Gould

[656] Greek text, and Latin translation in Fabricius; Pseudigr. Vet. Test. t. ii. pp. 905-7.

[657] סגולות ורתואית; Amst. 1703.

[658] Solomon was twelve years old when he succeeded David. (Abulfeda, p. 43; Bartolocci, iv. p. 371.)

[659] Weil, pp. 225-231; Eisenmenger, p. 440, etc.

[660] Weil, pp. 231-4.

[661] The story of the building of the temple, with the assistance of Schamir, has been already related by me in my “Curious Myths of the Middle Ages.”

[662] The Rabbinic story and the Mussulman are precisely the same, with the difference that Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, instead of the Jinns, lies in ambush and captures Sachr or Aschmedai (Asmodeus). (Eisenmenger, i. 351-8.) As I have given the Jewish version in my “Curious Myths of the Middle Ages,” I give the Arab story here.

[663] Weil, pp. 234-7; Talmud, Tract. Gittin. fol. 68, cols. 1, 2.

[664] Jalkut Schimoni, fol. 90, col. 4.

[665] Tabari, i. p. 435.