The ascendancy of Israel as a great nation beginning with king David’s exploits defeating foes in the Promised Land and then his son Solomon to become the richest man in the world is breathtaking. really unimaginable but for that they are the Chosen People (to record the story of Elohim), and believable considering the global navigating Phoenicians showed allegiance and inordinate cooperation in helping Solomon mine Mount Ophir in Malacca, and the Sierra Nevada mountains of far southwestern Spain.
