SOLOMON'S GREAT WEALTH

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, Cal. · Jun 6, 1906

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 32, No. 22.

SOLOMON'S GREAT WEALTH.

SOLOMON was not only the wisest but the richest man the world has ever seen, says the Tattler, tho, like the czar, who alone can be compared to him in wealth to-day, he had to keep all his relatives. He is said to have owned a fortune of £800,000,000, and David, his father, left half as much for the building of the Temple. Croesus, whose name is even a synonym for vast wealth, possessed £400,000,000, and Lucullus, famous for his dinners and his manuscripts, £120,000,000. Alexander the Great made his wars pay, for he brought back £160,000,000 from Persia. As a general rule it was unsafe to be very rich in classical times.