1 00:02:22,361 --> 00:02:25,258 Back to work! Back to work! 2 00:02:25,364 --> 00:02:28,293 Who is the idiot who is stopping the men from working. . .? 3 00:02:30,380 --> 00:02:32,929 Rehoboam, my son, I want you to meet the man 4 00:02:33,032 --> 00:02:36,855 who is in charge of all the building of this magnificent temple to God. 5 00:02:36,961 --> 00:02:39,509 The finest architect in the world, 6 00:02:39,613 --> 00:02:41,749 Hiram of Naphtali. 7 00:02:41,849 --> 00:02:43,984 Say, Rise, Hiram of Naphtali. 8 00:02:44,086 --> 00:02:46,503 Rise, Hiram of Naphtali. 9 00:02:47,888 --> 00:02:51,265 Accept the apology of the idiot who stopped your men from working. 10 00:02:51,370 --> 00:02:53,603 Back to work. Back to work, the idiot is leaving! 11 00:02:53,702 --> 00:02:55,162 ( laughter ) 12 00:03:02,201 --> 00:03:04,531 I am very sorry, Your Majesty. 13 00:03:04,629 --> 00:03:06,187 It is I who should apologize. 14 00:03:06,290 --> 00:03:08,110 I was having too much fun. 15 00:03:08,207 --> 00:03:10,092 Kings are not supposed to have fun. 16 00:03:11,210 --> 00:03:13,573 - All goes well? - Yes, Your Majesty. 17 00:03:13,671 --> 00:03:15,675 My men work hard and your people learn fast. 18 00:03:15,779 --> 00:03:19,003 In a year or so, I'll be able to send some of my foremen home, 19 00:03:19,102 --> 00:03:20,921 and they can be replaced by your men. 20 00:03:21,018 --> 00:03:23,154 - Excellent. - Some water? 21 00:03:23,256 --> 00:03:24,301 Yes, thank you. 22 00:03:32,648 --> 00:03:35,905 Your Majesty, may I be permitted a question? 23 00:03:36,002 --> 00:03:37,462 Of course. 24 00:03:37,568 --> 00:03:39,093 This temple, 25 00:03:39,198 --> 00:03:42,706 it will really be for God? God will live there? 26 00:03:42,807 --> 00:03:44,561 Yes, Hiram, God will live there. 27 00:03:44,661 --> 00:03:46,893 But can God live on earth? 28 00:03:48,878 --> 00:03:50,818 That's an interesting question, Hiram. 29 00:03:52,168 --> 00:03:54,652 Can God live on earth? 30 00:03:54,757 --> 00:03:56,695 Well, even heaven cannot contain God, 31 00:03:56,802 --> 00:03:59,253 much less this house that you are building. 32 00:03:59,357 --> 00:04:01,426 But God said, My name shall be there, 33 00:04:01,530 --> 00:04:05,931 that you may heed the prayer your servant prays towards this place. 34 00:04:06,035 --> 00:04:09,772 I believe God wants us to have a place to look towards, 35 00:04:09,869 --> 00:04:12,320 a place where we know He hears our prayers. 36 00:04:13,926 --> 00:04:15,745 So you must do your best work, Hiram. 37 00:04:15,842 --> 00:04:17,628 God has said this house shall stand forever. 38 00:04:17,728 --> 00:04:19,351 - Forever? - Forever! 39 00:04:19,454 --> 00:04:21,752 I shall try my best, Your Majesty. 40 00:04:25,683 --> 00:04:28,776 Who will oversee the men of Israel once your men are departed, Hiram? 41 00:04:28,878 --> 00:04:30,849 Why. . . I shall, Your Majesty. 42 00:04:30,955 --> 00:04:33,373 The men of Israel don't work well under foreign leadership. 43 00:04:33,479 --> 00:04:36,093 Don't be offended. They're a difficult bunch. 44 00:04:36,195 --> 00:04:39,223 You have an Israeli working for you who's industrious and able? 45 00:04:39,325 --> 00:04:40,436 One you can trust? 46 00:04:41,946 --> 00:04:43,665 Jeroboam. 47 00:04:43,766 --> 00:04:44,780 Jeroboam! 48 00:04:49,708 --> 00:04:50,820 Rise. 49 00:04:52,489 --> 00:04:54,689 Hiram of Naphtali says that you're clever, hard working 50 00:04:54,788 --> 00:04:56,247 and able to lead men. 51 00:04:57,504 --> 00:05:00,151 - This is true, Hiram? - It is, Your Majesty. 52 00:05:00,252 --> 00:05:01,809 I'm going to take his recommendation. . . 53 00:05:01,913 --> 00:05:05,453 and put you in charge of all of the laborers, starting today. 54 00:05:05,555 --> 00:05:06,863 Yes, Your Majesty. 55 00:05:06,961 --> 00:05:08,650 Make sure they work hard. 56 00:05:11,913 --> 00:05:15,007 This is God's house you're building. 57 00:05:15,107 --> 00:05:17,243 - The Temple will need musicians. . . - Yes, my lord. 58 00:05:17,344 --> 00:05:19,316 I want only the best, the most skilled. 59 00:05:19,421 --> 00:05:21,589 And also the men who make the instruments. . . 60 00:05:21,689 --> 00:05:24,980 It will also be a school where all arts and sciences are taught. 61 00:05:26,770 --> 00:05:28,457 My children! 62 00:05:36,866 --> 00:05:38,717 Enough! Enough! 63 00:05:38,814 --> 00:05:41,940 Come and show your father what you've learned. 64 00:05:43,639 --> 00:05:44,619 Come on. 65 00:05:47,759 --> 00:05:50,058 ( clapping ) 66 00:05:56,769 --> 00:05:58,653 Turn. 67 00:06:15,524 --> 00:06:17,592 Every one of my wives, 68 00:06:19,613 --> 00:06:22,064 every one of them says that you are an old lizard, 69 00:06:22,168 --> 00:06:24,466 and you're not putting their child in the front row, 70 00:06:24,564 --> 00:06:26,285 or heeding their child's particular talent-- 71 00:06:26,386 --> 00:06:28,422 Silence. Watch the dance. 72 00:06:33,191 --> 00:06:34,530 Wives. . . 73 00:06:34,628 --> 00:06:37,080 I wish I could cut some of them in half. 74 00:06:37,184 --> 00:06:39,221 You are a fool to have so many wives. 75 00:06:39,326 --> 00:06:41,078 I like women, Mother. 76 00:06:41,178 --> 00:06:44,271 Moses said a man shouldn't acquire many wives, 77 00:06:44,373 --> 00:06:46,345 or else his heart turns away. 78 00:06:46,450 --> 00:06:49,348 But I'm not a man, I'm a king! 79 00:06:49,452 --> 00:06:51,141 Moses was talking about a king. 80 00:06:52,456 --> 00:06:54,395 No, keep together! 81 00:06:54,501 --> 00:06:56,603 No, no, no! The left foot! 82 00:06:56,704 --> 00:06:58,708 I've told you and told you and told you, 83 00:06:58,813 --> 00:07:02,256 you do not go beyond that circle before you start to turn! 84 00:07:07,983 --> 00:07:10,434 Oh, no-- Oh! 85 00:07:10,539 --> 00:07:11,999 The queen! Oh, no! 86 00:07:12,104 --> 00:07:14,882 ( laughing ) 87 00:07:14,980 --> 00:07:15,993 Mother! 88 00:07:18,238 --> 00:07:19,829 Mother! 89 00:07:30,028 --> 00:07:31,651 David, my love? 90 00:07:33,351 --> 00:07:36,444 No, Mother, it's your son. 91 00:07:36,546 --> 00:07:37,918 Solomon. 92 00:07:39,931 --> 00:07:41,751 Of course. 93 00:07:43,318 --> 00:07:46,313 My mind is wandering. . . 94 00:07:49,197 --> 00:07:51,234 ahead of my body. 95 00:07:54,053 --> 00:07:55,872 Solomon, 96 00:07:55,969 --> 00:07:58,584 do you remember. . . 97 00:07:58,687 --> 00:08:00,342 the psalm. . . 98 00:08:00,443 --> 00:08:04,812 David wrote after he sinned with me? 99 00:08:06,130 --> 00:08:08,547 Do good to Zion. . . 100 00:08:08,654 --> 00:08:11,910 in your good pleasure. . . 101 00:08:14,022 --> 00:08:18,042 . . .and rebuild the walls of Jerusalem. 102 00:08:18,142 --> 00:08:24,560 Then you will delight in the right sacrifices, burnt offerings. 103 00:08:24,660 --> 00:08:27,884 Then bulls will be offered on your altar. 104 00:08:29,516 --> 00:08:33,220 Bulls will be offered on your altar, 105 00:08:34,852 --> 00:08:36,127 Solomon. 106 00:08:44,564 --> 00:08:47,243 ( sobbing ) 107 00:10:35,436 --> 00:10:36,808 Who's there? 108 00:10:42,146 --> 00:10:43,834 Can I help you, Majesty? 109 00:10:45,724 --> 00:10:47,150 Did you see me fall? 110 00:10:47,258 --> 00:10:50,732 Fall? No, no, of course not, Your Majesty. 111 00:10:50,836 --> 00:10:53,898 Of course you saw me fall, but your diplomacy is appreciated. 112 00:10:53,998 --> 00:10:55,458 Who are you? 113 00:10:55,564 --> 00:10:57,503 Jeroboam, Your Majesty. You appointed me over the. . . 114 00:10:57,609 --> 00:11:00,769 Yes, yes, yes, I remember, over the laborers. 115 00:11:00,867 --> 00:11:02,175 Come and help me. 116 00:11:04,255 --> 00:11:05,910 Is it permitted? 117 00:11:06,012 --> 00:11:06,937 Of course it isn't. 118 00:11:07,034 --> 00:11:09,005 If the priests catch us, they'll stone us both. 119 00:11:09,111 --> 00:11:10,930 Now get in here! 120 00:11:16,044 --> 00:11:17,350 Now, come and boost me up. 121 00:11:17,449 --> 00:11:19,617 I want to polish the eyes of the cherubim. 122 00:11:21,890 --> 00:11:24,983 Jeroboam, if the king wishes to polish the eyes of the cherubim, 123 00:11:25,085 --> 00:11:28,015 don't question him, help him polish the eyes of the cherubim. 124 00:11:28,121 --> 00:11:29,744 - Right? - Yes, of course, Your Majesty. 125 00:11:29,845 --> 00:11:30,892 Come on! 126 00:11:35,341 --> 00:11:38,684 It is one of the duties of the king. . . 127 00:11:38,791 --> 00:11:41,307 to polish the eyes of the cherubim. 128 00:11:41,411 --> 00:11:44,057 Give me your arm. Didn't you know that? 129 00:11:44,159 --> 00:11:46,871 - No, Your Majesty. - Oh, yes. Solemn duty. 130 00:11:48,088 --> 00:11:51,018 Then why do you have to sneak past the priests to do it? 131 00:11:51,124 --> 00:11:51,821 Oh-hh! 132 00:11:59,334 --> 00:12:01,719 Your king is crazy, Jeroboam. 133 00:12:01,826 --> 00:12:03,351 But only you know this. 134 00:12:05,468 --> 00:12:08,365 Guard the secret with your life. 135 00:12:08,472 --> 00:12:11,631 I'm afraid it's too late, Your Majesty. The secret's out. 136 00:12:11,729 --> 00:12:13,996 ( laughing aloud ) 137 00:13:32,114 --> 00:13:36,613 Arise, O Lord. Let Your enemies be scattered. 138 00:13:36,715 --> 00:13:40,058 Let those that hate Thee flee from before Thee! 139 00:13:43,551 --> 00:13:46,612 ( fanfare ) 140 00:14:39,366 --> 00:14:41,273 Praise the Lord, God of Israel! 141 00:14:43,136 --> 00:14:47,123 He has kept all His promises made to the king, my father. 142 00:14:47,226 --> 00:14:49,077 And I , in turn, have kept my vows, 143 00:14:49,174 --> 00:14:52,714 both to God and to my father. 144 00:14:53,838 --> 00:14:57,575 The people of Israel have built this Temple, 145 00:14:59,270 --> 00:15:03,355 as a dwelling place for the God Most High 146 00:15:03,456 --> 00:15:08,532 and as a resting place for this Holy Ark of the Covenant. 147 00:15:10,037 --> 00:15:14,732 It is fitting that the laws given to Moses by the Lord God Himself 148 00:15:14,829 --> 00:15:17,607 should be kept forever in His house. 149 00:15:18,854 --> 00:15:21,371 Grant, Lord God, 150 00:15:21,475 --> 00:15:23,772 that we keep Your laws, 151 00:15:23,870 --> 00:15:26,964 and please You in all that we do, 152 00:15:27,065 --> 00:15:30,638 both from this day, and forever more. 153 00:15:32,560 --> 00:15:34,597 I pray You, 154 00:15:34,701 --> 00:15:39,102 look kindly on this place and make it a house of prayer 155 00:15:41,187 --> 00:15:45,719 for all nations and all peoples. 156 00:16:13,552 --> 00:16:15,304 ( thunder ) 157 00:16:36,395 --> 00:16:39,521 ( festive music ) 158 00:17:27,300 --> 00:17:29,630 Why downcast? 159 00:17:29,727 --> 00:17:31,481 On this of all days? 160 00:17:33,401 --> 00:17:35,470 It's not easy to put into words, Jeroboam. 161 00:17:37,044 --> 00:17:39,593 If Solomon can't, no one can. 162 00:17:42,060 --> 00:17:44,032 Seven years. 163 00:17:44,136 --> 00:17:46,336 Seven years with one object, 164 00:17:46,437 --> 00:17:48,257 one ambition, one dream, 165 00:17:49,919 --> 00:17:51,542 and now it is finished. 166 00:17:52,667 --> 00:17:54,606 What else is there for me to do? 167 00:17:56,437 --> 00:17:58,767 I have not the wisdom to answer such a question, 168 00:18:02,251 --> 00:18:04,484 but my answer would be. . . 169 00:18:04,584 --> 00:18:06,403 to continue to serve God. 170 00:18:12,788 --> 00:18:14,444 ( music and clapping ) 171 00:19:05,861 --> 00:19:07,136 Abishag. 172 00:19:10,367 --> 00:19:11,510 Abishag. 173 00:19:13,178 --> 00:19:14,549 My Lord King! 174 00:19:14,647 --> 00:19:16,074 I don't believe it. . . 175 00:19:16,181 --> 00:19:18,697 Please. I'd rather no one knew who I was. 176 00:19:20,238 --> 00:19:21,545 How are you? 177 00:19:21,644 --> 00:19:23,463 Well, my lord. 178 00:19:23,561 --> 00:19:25,978 And your parents? Are they here? 179 00:19:26,085 --> 00:19:27,806 Of course. 180 00:19:27,906 --> 00:19:31,609 The whole world is here. Nothing would keep my father away. 181 00:19:31,708 --> 00:19:35,052 My husband, my two children, we are all here. 182 00:19:35,159 --> 00:19:38,253 You are married? How wonderful. 183 00:19:39,440 --> 00:19:41,956 Would you honor us with your presence? 184 00:19:42,060 --> 00:19:44,031 Nothing would give me more pleasure. 185 00:19:44,137 --> 00:19:45,825 Where's your tent? 186 00:19:45,926 --> 00:19:47,069 Here. . . 187 00:19:57,140 --> 00:19:58,892 Oh, these are fine children. 188 00:20:00,271 --> 00:20:01,762 They're a credit to you both. 189 00:20:04,808 --> 00:20:07,520 I'd love to give them something, but I brought nothing with me. 190 00:20:07,619 --> 00:20:09,274 Nothing, Great One? 191 00:20:09,375 --> 00:20:11,348 Your blessing would be worth more than gold. 192 00:20:16,724 --> 00:20:18,990 Dear Lord, bless these children. 193 00:20:19,088 --> 00:20:20,941 Keep them safe in Your hands. 194 00:20:22,571 --> 00:20:24,771 May you prosper like your noble grandfather. . . 195 00:20:29,280 --> 00:20:33,017 and may you be as beautiful and pure in spirit as your mother. 196 00:20:35,222 --> 00:20:36,203 Lovely children. 197 00:20:37,395 --> 00:20:39,432 Go, now. Go, go, go, go. 198 00:20:42,857 --> 00:20:46,300 Your Majesty, if I may, 199 00:20:46,405 --> 00:20:48,190 there is one little thing, 200 00:20:49,249 --> 00:20:50,740 Great King, 201 00:20:51,932 --> 00:20:53,936 hardly worth mentioning, really. 202 00:20:59,600 --> 00:21:03,522 - The pearls I gave you. . . - Of course! I'm glad you asked. 203 00:21:05,925 --> 00:21:08,288 I had them used as the eyes of the two great cherubim 204 00:21:08,385 --> 00:21:10,389 that guard the Ark of the Covenant. 205 00:21:12,762 --> 00:21:14,549 My pearls. . . 206 00:21:15,893 --> 00:21:17,418 are in the Temple? 207 00:21:20,046 --> 00:21:23,489 They look down on the Ark of God? 208 00:21:23,593 --> 00:21:25,891 For all time, if God wills it. 209 00:21:28,161 --> 00:21:30,840 Then I have not lived my life without purpose. 210 00:21:34,009 --> 00:21:36,274 I can go happily to my grave. 211 00:21:46,756 --> 00:21:49,370 Azarel, 212 00:21:49,471 --> 00:21:51,737 will you do me a favor? 213 00:21:51,835 --> 00:21:53,839 Anything in my power. 214 00:21:54,903 --> 00:21:58,279 Lend me a horse until dawn. I want to ride out into the desert. 215 00:21:58,385 --> 00:21:59,876 I have only a donkey outside. 216 00:21:59,983 --> 00:22:02,119 The horses are stabled some distance away. 217 00:22:02,219 --> 00:22:03,460 A donkey will do. 218 00:22:03,561 --> 00:22:07,036 A donkey? A king on a donkey? 219 00:22:07,139 --> 00:22:10,450 Kings have ridden on donkeys before, and I'm sure they will again. 220 00:22:11,676 --> 00:22:14,039 Well, then he is yours, Magnificence, 221 00:22:14,136 --> 00:22:16,205 for as long as you wish. Keep him. 222 00:22:18,577 --> 00:22:20,233 Just until dawn. 223 00:22:55,144 --> 00:22:57,823 I have heard your prayer, Solomon. 224 00:22:58,881 --> 00:23:03,413 I'll grant your wish that I live in the Temple you have built for Me. 225 00:23:03,515 --> 00:23:07,437 As for you, if you follow My laws, as did your father, David, 226 00:23:07,540 --> 00:23:10,917 then I will be with you until the end of your days. 227 00:23:11,022 --> 00:23:15,075 But if you turn away from Me and serve other gods but Me, 228 00:23:15,175 --> 00:23:20,023 then I will destroy the Temple that you have built for Me. 229 00:24:02,820 --> 00:24:04,573 Who are you? 230 00:24:05,854 --> 00:24:08,403 What are these magnificent beasts? 231 00:24:10,231 --> 00:24:12,235 Where are you going? 232 00:24:13,650 --> 00:24:14,859 Hello? 233 00:24:14,960 --> 00:24:16,713 Hello? May I present myself? 234 00:24:16,813 --> 00:24:18,566 I'm King Solomon, the King of Israel. 235 00:24:22,755 --> 00:24:25,598 Actually, it's true. I am the King of Israel. 236 00:24:30,167 --> 00:24:32,019 Where are you going? 237 00:24:32,117 --> 00:24:33,608 To Jerusalem. 238 00:24:33,714 --> 00:24:35,533 Ride ahead and tell your king 239 00:24:35,630 --> 00:24:37,732 that the Queen of Sheba is coming. 240 00:24:45,503 --> 00:24:48,116 Thank you. I'll be sure to tell the king. 241 00:24:54,066 --> 00:24:55,950 ( chattering ) 242 00:25:00,263 --> 00:25:02,747 ( processional music plays ) 243 00:25:41,733 --> 00:25:45,044 Jeroboam, do you think she is beautiful? 244 00:25:45,152 --> 00:25:47,253 I certainly hope so. You've asked me a hundred times 245 00:25:47,355 --> 00:25:48,782 in the last hour. 246 00:25:53,522 --> 00:25:56,452 ( trumpets sound ) 247 00:26:45,439 --> 00:26:48,849 I'm King Solomon of Israel and Judah. 248 00:26:48,953 --> 00:26:52,330 I bid you welcome on behalf of all of my countrymen. 249 00:26:52,435 --> 00:26:56,172 The fame of King Solomon has spread like a rising tide, 250 00:26:56,270 --> 00:26:58,883 even as far as Axum and Saaba. 251 00:26:58,985 --> 00:27:01,315 I have crossed the desert for many months 252 00:27:01,413 --> 00:27:03,613 to bathe in the ocean of his wisdom. 253 00:27:05,471 --> 00:27:09,077 And to see his considerable skills on a donkey. 254 00:27:14,321 --> 00:27:16,967 I am Makida, Queen of Sheba. 255 00:27:24,449 --> 00:27:26,486 ( reeds and drums play softly ) 256 00:27:43,202 --> 00:27:45,272 They please you? 257 00:27:45,375 --> 00:27:46,682 Hmm, yes, very much. 258 00:27:46,781 --> 00:27:50,191 We-- we have no tradition here of dances like these. 259 00:27:58,570 --> 00:27:59,745 But they're beautiful. 260 00:27:59,848 --> 00:28:01,252 They are yours. 261 00:28:01,349 --> 00:28:03,996 - Mine? - I brought them for you. 262 00:28:12,531 --> 00:28:14,567 A riddle for you, Your Majesty. 263 00:28:15,790 --> 00:28:18,884 How can you see through sand? 264 00:28:18,985 --> 00:28:20,390 You mean across sand? 265 00:28:20,487 --> 00:28:24,409 No, through sand, Your Majesty. These are made from sand. 266 00:28:24,513 --> 00:28:25,819 How? 267 00:28:25,918 --> 00:28:28,761 Heated until it becomes liquid, then cooled into thin sheets 268 00:28:28,858 --> 00:28:30,796 with air from the lungs. 269 00:28:30,902 --> 00:28:32,306 What is it called? 270 00:28:32,404 --> 00:28:34,540 Glass. From Phoenicia. 271 00:28:39,975 --> 00:28:41,696 Fabric from I India. 272 00:28:41,796 --> 00:28:43,452 Beautiful! 273 00:28:43,553 --> 00:28:45,078 Precious wood. . . 274 00:28:46,525 --> 00:28:49,488 - also from I India. - Hmmm, it smells wonderful. 275 00:28:49,592 --> 00:28:52,882 Peaches, oranges, figs, 276 00:28:52,979 --> 00:28:54,765 cheese. . . 277 00:28:54,863 --> 00:28:56,900 lentils, millet. . . 278 00:28:57,004 --> 00:28:58,528 hmmm. . . fine herbs. . . 279 00:28:59,880 --> 00:29:02,015 ah. . . salt from the Dead Sea. . . 280 00:29:02,116 --> 00:29:04,001 very good in small amounts. 281 00:29:04,096 --> 00:29:07,440 Deer, roebuck, gazelle, 282 00:29:07,548 --> 00:29:09,845 this is game fowl, 283 00:29:09,943 --> 00:29:11,369 look at those. . . 284 00:29:13,714 --> 00:29:15,369 This. . . this is my favorite, 285 00:29:16,908 --> 00:29:18,400 fatted goose from Egypt. 286 00:29:18,506 --> 00:29:20,641 Have you ever tasted goose, Your Majesty? 287 00:29:20,742 --> 00:29:22,147 Never. 288 00:29:30,518 --> 00:29:31,498 Mmm. . . 289 00:29:34,992 --> 00:29:37,737 Oh, you must try this. 290 00:29:38,792 --> 00:29:42,170 This is the sweetest thing you have ever tasted. 291 00:29:42,276 --> 00:29:43,964 Sugar cane from the Nile. 292 00:29:50,678 --> 00:29:52,301 Very good. 293 00:29:52,404 --> 00:29:54,637 But not as sweet as my sugar cane. 294 00:29:54,735 --> 00:29:56,140 You've tasted this before? 295 00:29:56,238 --> 00:29:59,015 My country is on the Nile. 296 00:29:59,113 --> 00:30:02,011 It is a very long river, Your Majesty. 297 00:30:03,074 --> 00:30:06,004 We have grown sugar cane since the beginning of time. 298 00:30:25,598 --> 00:30:27,156 Is this a shrine to Astarte? 299 00:30:27,260 --> 00:30:28,720 It is. 300 00:30:28,825 --> 00:30:31,407 How can this be allowed? You worship your one God. 301 00:30:31,509 --> 00:30:33,033 We're a trading nation. 302 00:30:33,138 --> 00:30:35,045 Merchants come from all over the world. 303 00:30:35,151 --> 00:30:37,634 If they couldn't worship their gods, they'd go somewhere else. 304 00:30:37,739 --> 00:30:41,475 How strange. . . to put trade before faith. 305 00:30:42,531 --> 00:30:44,416 Now you sound like my priests! 306 00:31:00,359 --> 00:31:01,982 Something is wrong with the fruit? 307 00:31:02,084 --> 00:31:05,210 Nothing. Just an ant. 308 00:31:05,311 --> 00:31:07,162 Just an ant? 309 00:31:07,260 --> 00:31:09,525 You should consider them. 310 00:31:09,624 --> 00:31:11,312 I've learned much from watching ants. 311 00:31:12,978 --> 00:31:14,470 You watch the ants? 312 00:31:14,576 --> 00:31:16,395 Oh, yes, it's fascinating! 313 00:31:16,493 --> 00:31:18,595 We think the lion the king among beasts, 314 00:31:18,698 --> 00:31:20,995 but what does he do? He finds his lair, 315 00:31:21,094 --> 00:31:23,131 he does not build it. 316 00:31:23,234 --> 00:31:26,676 And he would rather sleep while his lioness does the hunting. 317 00:31:26,780 --> 00:31:30,004 But the ant builds his own city. 318 00:31:30,103 --> 00:31:32,685 They have their ruler, their soldiers 319 00:31:32,787 --> 00:31:35,815 and they all work together for the common good. 320 00:31:35,918 --> 00:31:38,597 Oh, we would do well to study the ants. 321 00:31:45,725 --> 00:31:47,795 But I wish they'd find their own food! 322 00:31:51,317 --> 00:31:53,288 Joseph taught us all 323 00:31:53,393 --> 00:31:55,757 that forgiveness is God's way. 324 00:31:56,812 --> 00:31:59,524 Even if you have been wronged, 325 00:31:59,624 --> 00:32:01,312 you must look to God, 326 00:32:01,413 --> 00:32:03,798 to know what He would have you do, hmm? 327 00:32:06,630 --> 00:32:09,724 Now, who remembers the fourth commandment? 328 00:32:11,837 --> 00:32:13,722 Ready. . . begin! 329 00:32:13,818 --> 00:32:17,642 Honor your father and mother, so that your days may be long 330 00:32:17,748 --> 00:32:21,059 in the land that the Lord your God has given you. 331 00:32:24,617 --> 00:32:25,728 Sisi. . . 332 00:32:25,831 --> 00:32:28,445 Oh, Baladona, 333 00:32:28,547 --> 00:32:29,723 Hezezia, 334 00:32:29,825 --> 00:32:31,611 Lezia, 335 00:32:31,710 --> 00:32:32,722 Johanan. . . 336 00:32:38,834 --> 00:32:40,588 Do you know them all by name? 337 00:32:40,688 --> 00:32:43,106 If I forget, their mothers soon remind me. 338 00:32:44,553 --> 00:32:47,647 And they all worship your God even though their mothers do not? 339 00:32:47,748 --> 00:32:49,633 Yes, especially my sons. 340 00:32:49,729 --> 00:32:51,929 One day, I must choose a successor. 341 00:32:52,029 --> 00:32:53,239 Not the eldest? 342 00:32:53,339 --> 00:32:54,548 That's not our law. 343 00:32:54,649 --> 00:32:57,067 I was not the eldest and my father chose me. 344 00:32:57,174 --> 00:32:59,754 And I am certain that he made the right choice. 345 00:32:59,857 --> 00:33:02,439 He loved my mother, above all his other wives. 346 00:33:03,787 --> 00:33:06,914 So love made you a king. 347 00:33:07,013 --> 00:33:09,214 Well, there are worse ways of choosing. 348 00:33:09,314 --> 00:33:12,538 A king's heart is a stream of water in the hands of the Lord. 349 00:33:12,636 --> 00:33:14,521 He turns it wherever He will. 350 00:33:16,886 --> 00:33:18,312 ( restless grumbling ) 351 00:33:28,387 --> 00:33:30,805 The waters do not belong to you. 352 00:33:35,480 --> 00:33:38,028 Neither do they belong to you. 353 00:33:38,132 --> 00:33:40,681 They belong to God. 354 00:33:40,783 --> 00:33:43,680 Do I lay claim to the air you are breathing now? 355 00:33:43,787 --> 00:33:46,303 Is it mine since it is within my chamber? 356 00:33:47,653 --> 00:33:52,021 You will both lose your share of the water for one month. 357 00:33:52,124 --> 00:33:55,665 You will not be allowed to use the water for any purpose. 358 00:33:57,109 --> 00:34:00,682 Perhaps this will remind you to thank God for what he has given you. 359 00:34:12,190 --> 00:34:13,528 Next case. 360 00:34:15,607 --> 00:34:20,586 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge. 361 00:34:23,307 --> 00:34:25,376 Keep the Lord's commandments and teachings 362 00:34:25,480 --> 00:34:27,614 as the apple of your eye. 363 00:34:29,409 --> 00:34:32,720 Train your children well so when old they will not fail you. 364 00:34:36,981 --> 00:34:40,521 And he who loves discipline, loves knowledge. 365 00:34:40,623 --> 00:34:44,001 He who hates to be rebuked is stupid. 366 00:34:45,064 --> 00:34:47,743 Also, those who belittle another lack sense. 367 00:34:50,208 --> 00:34:52,506 And the righteous know the needs of their animals. 368 00:34:52,603 --> 00:34:54,543 Only the wicked are cruel. 369 00:34:57,556 --> 00:34:59,974 A soft answer turns away wrath. 370 00:35:01,518 --> 00:35:03,849 The beginning of strife is like a leak of water, 371 00:35:03,946 --> 00:35:06,212 so stop before the argument begins. 372 00:35:13,339 --> 00:35:15,636 And remember, 373 00:35:15,735 --> 00:35:18,448 the wise man remains silent, 374 00:35:18,546 --> 00:35:22,631 so even fools who keep quiet can be considered wise! 375 00:35:26,757 --> 00:35:28,827 ( laughter and applause ) 376 00:35:43,691 --> 00:35:45,510 I have another riddle for you. 377 00:35:46,757 --> 00:35:49,818 What are the eight things that the Lord hates the most? 378 00:35:51,263 --> 00:35:53,843 Hmm. . . Let me see. . . 379 00:35:54,937 --> 00:35:56,560 Hate. . . 380 00:35:56,662 --> 00:35:58,993 deceit, 381 00:35:59,090 --> 00:36:00,811 hypocrisy? 382 00:36:03,211 --> 00:36:04,486 Haughty eyes. 383 00:36:07,588 --> 00:36:08,535 Two. 384 00:36:09,921 --> 00:36:11,805 A lying tongue. Three. 385 00:36:15,863 --> 00:36:18,793 Hands that shed innocent blood. 386 00:36:18,898 --> 00:36:20,358 Five. 387 00:36:23,083 --> 00:36:25,861 A heart that devises wicked plans. 388 00:36:25,959 --> 00:36:26,972 Six. 389 00:36:34,106 --> 00:36:36,240 And feet that run towards evil. 390 00:36:36,342 --> 00:36:37,649 Eight. 391 00:36:38,802 --> 00:36:40,686 The report that I heard. . . 392 00:36:40,783 --> 00:36:43,113 in my own land of your accomplishments 393 00:36:43,211 --> 00:36:44,867 and of your wisdom was true. 394 00:36:47,397 --> 00:36:49,662 Not even half has been told to me. 395 00:36:50,750 --> 00:36:54,802 Blessed be the Lord your God, Who has delighted in you 396 00:36:54,904 --> 00:36:58,248 and set you upon the throne of Israel. 397 00:36:58,355 --> 00:37:02,472 And the reports of your beauty and grace fall far short of the truth. 398 00:37:10,623 --> 00:37:12,920 Did you swim as a boy? 399 00:37:13,019 --> 00:37:14,839 Yes, of course. 400 00:37:14,936 --> 00:37:18,607 Do you still swim now that you're king? 401 00:37:18,706 --> 00:37:20,110 - Sadly, never. - Hmm. 402 00:37:21,646 --> 00:37:23,137 Time again. 403 00:38:37,396 --> 00:38:40,261 I called upon God. . . 404 00:38:40,367 --> 00:38:42,633 and the spirit of wisdom came to me. 405 00:38:43,690 --> 00:38:46,240 But in you there is an understanding, 406 00:38:46,342 --> 00:38:47,681 clear. . . 407 00:38:48,930 --> 00:38:51,675 undefiled, plain, 408 00:38:51,773 --> 00:38:54,070 loving the thing that is good. 409 00:38:55,192 --> 00:38:58,318 You see as only a woman can. 410 00:38:58,419 --> 00:39:00,456 A mirror to God's goodness. 411 00:39:02,700 --> 00:39:04,606 You are the queen to my king. 412 00:39:06,885 --> 00:39:10,012 I've sought you ever since I was a youth, 413 00:39:10,112 --> 00:39:12,279 without knowing what it was I was seeking. 414 00:39:14,010 --> 00:39:16,112 Solomon. . . 415 00:39:16,214 --> 00:39:18,665 more than anything else in the world, 416 00:39:18,770 --> 00:39:20,458 I want to bear you a son. 417 00:39:23,275 --> 00:39:25,214 Then our minds are as one. 418 00:39:27,268 --> 00:39:30,907 More than anything else in the world, I want to marry you. 419 00:39:31,007 --> 00:39:33,370 Do you imagine that I haven't thought about it? 420 00:39:35,032 --> 00:39:37,004 Would you give up your kingdom for me? 421 00:39:38,738 --> 00:39:40,557 Israel is more than a kingdom. 422 00:39:42,413 --> 00:39:44,166 It is a Faith. 423 00:39:45,319 --> 00:39:48,184 It has been called by God to do great things. 424 00:39:48,291 --> 00:39:51,417 Yes, I have come to realize that. 425 00:39:54,713 --> 00:39:56,237 Isn't the position already. . . 426 00:39:58,483 --> 00:40:00,040 rather crowded? 427 00:40:00,144 --> 00:40:01,450 They are nothing. 428 00:40:02,508 --> 00:40:04,261 You are everything. 429 00:40:05,127 --> 00:40:08,831 Solomon, I cannot abandon my people forever. 430 00:40:08,930 --> 00:40:11,032 A crown is like. . . 431 00:40:11,134 --> 00:40:15,186 a seam of gold. There are always those who seek it. 432 00:40:15,288 --> 00:40:18,762 One day, I will have to return. 433 00:40:18,866 --> 00:40:21,001 But a boy from you. . . 434 00:40:21,103 --> 00:40:23,303 that promises us a whole year together. 435 00:40:25,064 --> 00:40:27,133 You shall have your year. 436 00:40:28,929 --> 00:40:31,227 And I will. . . 437 00:40:31,326 --> 00:40:32,883 be your wife. 438 00:40:35,990 --> 00:40:37,296 Yes. . . 439 00:40:37,396 --> 00:40:38,801 I will. 440 00:41:15,000 --> 00:41:17,549 ( applause ) 441 00:42:18,290 --> 00:42:21,188 Oh, my love! 442 00:42:21,293 --> 00:42:23,657 How much better are your kisses than wine. 443 00:42:42,556 --> 00:42:43,895 My lord! 444 00:42:43,993 --> 00:42:46,770 Not now, Jeroboam. I'm late to meet my queen. 445 00:42:46,868 --> 00:42:48,557 They sent me to speak for them. 446 00:42:48,657 --> 00:42:49,769 Who sent you? 447 00:42:49,871 --> 00:42:51,756 The elders, the officers of the court. 448 00:42:51,853 --> 00:42:54,815 They say we are friends. They say you will listen to me. 449 00:42:54,920 --> 00:42:57,817 Very well. What is it? 450 00:42:57,923 --> 00:42:58,968 Say it! 451 00:43:00,575 --> 00:43:03,287 The ship of state needs someone at the steering oar. 452 00:43:06,101 --> 00:43:09,479 What does that mean, Jeroboam? 453 00:43:09,584 --> 00:43:11,915 There are matters which demand your attention. . . 454 00:43:12,013 --> 00:43:14,081 other than the Queen of Sheba's thighs. 455 00:43:15,527 --> 00:43:17,182 How dare you?! 456 00:43:17,283 --> 00:43:19,168 No one speaks to me like that! 457 00:43:19,265 --> 00:43:21,944 Get out! Get out! 458 00:43:26,325 --> 00:43:27,665 Jeroboam! 459 00:43:40,511 --> 00:43:43,124 I apologize. 460 00:43:43,226 --> 00:43:46,036 It is too easy for a king to avoid criticism. 461 00:43:47,571 --> 00:43:49,608 Say your speech. 462 00:43:51,086 --> 00:43:55,170 Taxes. . . forced labor. 463 00:43:55,270 --> 00:43:58,266 The people would endure it while the Temple was being built. 464 00:43:58,370 --> 00:44:01,300 The Temple is finished. The taxes should also cease. 465 00:44:01,405 --> 00:44:03,790 You should show yourself in the provinces. 466 00:44:03,897 --> 00:44:06,413 Popularity is a fickle thing. It could leave you. 467 00:44:06,516 --> 00:44:10,285 And finally, your crown depends on the love of the people. 468 00:44:10,383 --> 00:44:12,355 And, may I add, on the love of God. 469 00:44:12,460 --> 00:44:15,303 You have served Him well in the past, 470 00:44:15,398 --> 00:44:18,557 but is that a surety for now, for the future? 471 00:44:20,734 --> 00:44:23,000 Jeroboam, listen to me, 472 00:44:23,098 --> 00:44:25,267 and listen to me carefully. 473 00:44:26,964 --> 00:44:30,025 I love her, 474 00:44:30,127 --> 00:44:34,495 above duty, above health. 475 00:44:34,600 --> 00:44:38,042 I choose her over light. 476 00:44:39,201 --> 00:44:43,188 Because the light that radiates from her never dims. 477 00:44:43,290 --> 00:44:46,352 She is my missing arm, no-- 478 00:44:46,453 --> 00:44:48,904 she's my entire body. 479 00:44:50,606 --> 00:44:53,765 She's what I've always wanted without ever knowing my wants. 480 00:44:56,900 --> 00:44:58,807 She is the breath of God. 481 00:45:00,831 --> 00:45:02,355 Solomon-- 482 00:45:02,460 --> 00:45:03,952 she's a woman. 483 00:45:05,749 --> 00:45:07,536 Exactly. 484 00:45:10,670 --> 00:45:13,122 Oh, oh, feel. . . 485 00:45:20,830 --> 00:45:23,281 It's a boy. . . 486 00:45:23,386 --> 00:45:25,804 I am sure, the way he kicks-- ooh! 487 00:45:27,156 --> 00:45:29,257 he will be a great athlete. 488 00:45:32,842 --> 00:45:35,260 My love, 489 00:45:35,367 --> 00:45:38,939 I have something to ask you, but I am at a loss for words. 490 00:45:39,041 --> 00:45:40,947 You? 491 00:45:41,053 --> 00:45:43,798 The wisest of the wise? Ask. 492 00:45:46,677 --> 00:45:51,371 If it is a boy, I want him to be my heir, 493 00:45:51,469 --> 00:45:53,767 King of Israel and Judah. 494 00:45:53,864 --> 00:45:55,520 But. . . 495 00:45:55,623 --> 00:45:58,585 you've promised it to Rehoboam. 496 00:45:58,689 --> 00:46:00,062 He is to be your heir. 497 00:46:00,159 --> 00:46:02,576 Unless I decide otherwise. 498 00:46:02,683 --> 00:46:03,859 And I do. 499 00:46:06,581 --> 00:46:08,487 Stay here with me. 500 00:46:08,594 --> 00:46:12,842 We will raise a mighty King, strong, wise, 501 00:46:12,938 --> 00:46:14,822 whose voice will be heard throughout the land, 502 00:46:14,919 --> 00:46:18,176 proclaiming the righteousness of the Lord. 503 00:46:43,578 --> 00:46:45,712 ( baby cries ) 504 00:47:02,874 --> 00:47:05,172 I knew it! 505 00:47:05,271 --> 00:47:09,159 A boy! A boy! 506 00:47:09,264 --> 00:47:10,887 A king! 507 00:47:12,300 --> 00:47:15,524 I shall call you Menelik, the Chosen One. 508 00:47:19,072 --> 00:47:21,207 Thank you, God! Thank you! 509 00:47:25,271 --> 00:47:26,894 ( laughing ) 510 00:47:30,263 --> 00:47:32,650 No! It is out of the question! 511 00:47:32,756 --> 00:47:36,100 It's outrageous that you could even contemplate such an act. 512 00:47:36,207 --> 00:47:39,747 The throne is mine! I have a right to choose my successor! 513 00:47:39,849 --> 00:47:41,188 No! The choice is not yours! 514 00:47:41,287 --> 00:47:44,925 It must be ratified by God through the High Priest and the Council! 515 00:47:45,025 --> 00:47:47,606 King David chose me above all his sons, 516 00:47:47,709 --> 00:47:50,999 - younger or older! - He chose you, yes! 517 00:47:51,095 --> 00:47:54,253 But you were not made king until anointed by the High Priest Zadok. 518 00:47:54,354 --> 00:47:57,164 Then and only then you became king. True? 519 00:47:57,260 --> 00:48:00,703 Yes, yes, I went through the usual formalities. . . 520 00:48:00,808 --> 00:48:02,299 Usual formalities ? 521 00:48:02,405 --> 00:48:04,823 You make one of the most sacred acts of our faith. . . 522 00:48:04,928 --> 00:48:06,748 sound like a blessing before dinner! 523 00:48:06,846 --> 00:48:08,501 She is not of our faith! 524 00:48:08,602 --> 00:48:10,258 I don't know who she worships, 525 00:48:10,360 --> 00:48:12,267 but it is not the one true God. 526 00:48:12,373 --> 00:48:14,987 She wishes to embrace our faith. 527 00:48:15,088 --> 00:48:16,581 You know the law. 528 00:48:16,685 --> 00:48:19,267 She must be one of us! 529 00:48:19,370 --> 00:48:21,951 Raised and born in fear of the living God! 530 00:48:34,928 --> 00:48:37,924 My friend, force your will on this. . . 531 00:48:38,027 --> 00:48:40,326 and you will lose your crown. 532 00:48:43,939 --> 00:48:45,975 There would be a revolution. 533 00:48:54,897 --> 00:48:56,008 Well? 534 00:49:01,542 --> 00:49:04,733 The King, may he live forever, 535 00:49:04,833 --> 00:49:06,292 knows the law. 536 00:49:07,357 --> 00:49:11,060 Neither I , nor any priest in Israel 537 00:49:11,158 --> 00:49:14,949 would dare anoint the son of the Queen of Sheba as heir. 538 00:49:15,056 --> 00:49:17,257 That is the Holy Law, 539 00:49:17,357 --> 00:49:20,351 and even kings must live and die by it. 540 00:49:23,555 --> 00:49:25,308 That is your final word? 541 00:49:25,408 --> 00:49:27,260 It is the Holy Law. 542 00:50:00,679 --> 00:50:02,107 Don't ask. 543 00:50:02,212 --> 00:50:04,217 Please. Please stay. 544 00:50:04,321 --> 00:50:06,620 - To join your 7 00 wives? - Never! 545 00:50:06,717 --> 00:50:09,779 I am the queen of my country. My son is the heir. 546 00:50:09,880 --> 00:50:12,723 I have been blinded by my love for you, 547 00:50:12,820 --> 00:50:15,717 but now they have let me see. 548 00:50:15,823 --> 00:50:17,925 At first, I was a curiosity. 549 00:50:18,028 --> 00:50:20,097 - Now I am a hated stranger. - Never hated! 550 00:50:20,200 --> 00:50:22,586 You can rule your people, Solomon, 551 00:50:22,692 --> 00:50:24,892 but you cannot command them to love me. . . 552 00:50:27,388 --> 00:50:29,208 or our son. 553 00:50:58,954 --> 00:51:01,252 This city will be a tomb without you. 554 00:51:04,001 --> 00:51:06,485 It was never possible, Solomon. 555 00:51:07,740 --> 00:51:09,395 Never. 556 00:51:10,552 --> 00:51:12,850 But I only began to live. . . 557 00:51:12,947 --> 00:51:15,626 the day that I saw you on that donkey. 558 00:51:18,059 --> 00:51:21,283 I am King Solomon. Who are you? 559 00:51:24,960 --> 00:51:28,751 I am the woman who will love you forever. 560 00:51:33,330 --> 00:51:37,187 Our son, our son will have a crown. 561 00:51:37,293 --> 00:51:39,427 He will rule my kingdom. 562 00:51:43,850 --> 00:51:45,026 And, Solomon, 563 00:51:45,128 --> 00:51:50,782 I want him to rule under your God, Whom I intend to make mine. 564 00:51:52,093 --> 00:51:53,171 When I leave, 565 00:51:53,275 --> 00:51:57,294 I would like to take some men learned in your faith. . . 566 00:51:57,396 --> 00:51:59,117 to instruct our son. 567 00:52:00,304 --> 00:52:02,308 I will do better than that, 568 00:52:02,413 --> 00:52:05,506 since he is to be denied his right to rule here. 569 00:52:07,908 --> 00:52:10,140 You and I will build a new Jerusalem, 570 00:52:10,240 --> 00:52:12,375 a new Israel in your land. 571 00:52:12,477 --> 00:52:15,320 I will send the priests, architects, 572 00:52:15,415 --> 00:52:17,714 and settlers and soldiers, 573 00:52:17,812 --> 00:52:21,548 and riches enough for him to rule in splendor. 574 00:52:21,646 --> 00:52:23,715 Then I will give him another name. 575 00:52:25,543 --> 00:52:29,530 I will call him David, in honor of your father. 576 00:52:47,716 --> 00:52:49,851 Drop your arms from around me. 577 00:52:49,953 --> 00:52:52,251 No, I cannot, I cannot. 578 00:52:52,349 --> 00:52:53,939 You must. 579 00:52:54,042 --> 00:52:56,406 You must do this for me, or I can never leave. 580 00:52:56,502 --> 00:52:58,800 I cannot, I cannot. 581 00:52:58,897 --> 00:53:01,282 You are the king. 582 00:53:01,390 --> 00:53:03,874 You must do what God has ordained. 583 00:53:03,978 --> 00:53:06,145 You must give your life to your country. 584 00:53:08,035 --> 00:53:10,398 You are my life. 585 00:53:10,495 --> 00:53:14,450 And Israel is your country. She must come first. 586 00:53:20,911 --> 00:53:24,549 Drop your arms from around me. . . 587 00:53:24,649 --> 00:53:26,337 and let me go. 588 00:54:13,382 --> 00:54:15,866 Look at them. More gold! 589 00:54:15,971 --> 00:54:18,073 Six hundred talents of gold, I've heard tell. 590 00:54:18,175 --> 00:54:19,155 Six hundred?! 591 00:54:19,262 --> 00:54:22,191 That is a whole year of taxes for the entire country! 592 00:54:22,296 --> 00:54:23,984 He's gone mad! 593 00:54:24,086 --> 00:54:25,742 You never know what a man will do 594 00:54:25,842 --> 00:54:27,749 when he starts thinking with his groin. 595 00:54:27,855 --> 00:54:28,901 Look at them! 596 00:54:29,006 --> 00:54:31,489 Our finest citizens, commanded to relocate. 597 00:54:31,593 --> 00:54:34,338 I don't pay taxes to pour into some hole in Africa! 598 00:54:34,437 --> 00:54:36,507 Why are we still paying these taxes? 599 00:54:36,610 --> 00:54:38,549 I thought once the Temple was built. . . 600 00:54:38,655 --> 00:54:40,374 That's why! 601 00:54:57,696 --> 00:55:00,473 What is this? 602 00:55:00,571 --> 00:55:01,944 Gold cups! 603 00:55:02,041 --> 00:55:03,859 I want nothing but gold! 604 00:55:21,689 --> 00:55:23,029 Ahh. . . 605 00:55:24,340 --> 00:55:25,768 gold. 606 00:55:26,609 --> 00:55:28,613 Good. 607 00:55:31,434 --> 00:55:33,852 Do you know why it is good, Jeroboam? 608 00:55:33,957 --> 00:55:37,335 Because one man goes deep into the earth to dig it up, 609 00:55:37,441 --> 00:55:42,004 another man melts it to make it pure, 610 00:55:42,104 --> 00:55:43,957 another shapes it into a cup, 611 00:55:44,053 --> 00:55:46,864 and another etches a beautiful design upon it. 612 00:55:46,961 --> 00:55:47,887 Why? 613 00:55:48,942 --> 00:55:52,198 So the king can have the very best. That is why. 614 00:55:52,999 --> 00:55:55,068 All is vanity. 615 00:55:56,992 --> 00:55:57,940 Solomon-- 616 00:55:58,047 --> 00:56:00,116 All things are wearisome, Jeroboam, 617 00:56:00,219 --> 00:56:02,256 more than one can express. 618 00:56:04,340 --> 00:56:06,410 The eye is not satisfied with the seeing, 619 00:56:06,513 --> 00:56:08,397 the ear is not filled with the hearing. 620 00:56:08,494 --> 00:56:11,359 Yet, there is nothing new under the sun. 621 00:56:11,465 --> 00:56:12,163 Solomon! 622 00:56:12,263 --> 00:56:17,177 I applied my mind to seek and search out wisdom 623 00:56:17,280 --> 00:56:21,049 and it is an unhappy business that God has given human beings, 624 00:56:21,145 --> 00:56:22,736 for all is vanity. 625 00:56:22,839 --> 00:56:25,137 You have acquired much wisdom, Solomon. 626 00:56:25,235 --> 00:56:27,174 Much wisdom is much vexation! 627 00:56:29,389 --> 00:56:31,621 Those who increase in knowledge increase in sorrow. 628 00:56:31,721 --> 00:56:33,955 That is not true. 629 00:56:34,053 --> 00:56:37,593 No? I said to myself, Come, Solomon, 630 00:56:37,695 --> 00:56:40,625 make a test of pleasure, enjoy yourself. 631 00:56:42,136 --> 00:56:45,840 I searched with my mind how to. . . 632 00:56:45,939 --> 00:56:48,901 how to cheer my body so that I might see. . . 633 00:56:49,005 --> 00:56:51,368 what it was that mortals should do under heaven 634 00:56:51,465 --> 00:56:53,469 in the few days of their lives. 635 00:56:54,916 --> 00:56:56,823 Vanity! 636 00:56:58,654 --> 00:57:00,375 I made great works. 637 00:57:00,476 --> 00:57:04,331 I have great possessions, delights of the flesh-- 638 00:57:04,437 --> 00:57:07,367 whatever my eye desires, I did not keep from them. 639 00:57:09,357 --> 00:57:10,816 Vanity! 640 00:57:10,923 --> 00:57:13,504 Solomon, you are a king to your people. 641 00:57:13,605 --> 00:57:16,700 What happens to the fool will also happen to the king. 642 00:57:18,079 --> 00:57:21,651 All come from dust, to dust all shall return. 643 00:57:22,391 --> 00:57:25,354 Why, then, do I have to be so wise? 644 00:57:26,737 --> 00:57:28,141 Vanity. 645 00:57:28,238 --> 00:57:31,462 You gave us the Temple. Solomon-- 646 00:57:31,561 --> 00:57:34,012 The Temple I must leave to those who come after. 647 00:57:34,117 --> 00:57:36,634 Who knows whether they will be wise or foolish? 648 00:57:36,737 --> 00:57:40,441 It is not for them, it is for me. Vanity! 649 00:57:51,881 --> 00:57:55,966 Jeroboam, what do mortals get from all the toil and strain? 650 00:57:56,066 --> 00:57:58,909 All our days are full of pain. 651 00:57:59,005 --> 00:58:01,172 Even at night, our minds do not rest. 652 00:58:01,273 --> 00:58:03,277 This is also vanity. 653 00:58:03,383 --> 00:58:04,874 It is God's will. 654 00:58:04,980 --> 00:58:07,310 Oh, God's will! 655 00:58:09,196 --> 00:58:12,258 Every time a question is asked that cannot be answered, 656 00:58:12,360 --> 00:58:16,761 someone always says, It is God's will! 657 00:58:16,864 --> 00:58:18,618 I believe God's will is already written. 658 00:58:18,718 --> 00:58:20,602 Man has nothing to do with it. 659 00:58:22,583 --> 00:58:24,849 There is a season for everything, 660 00:58:24,947 --> 00:58:28,325 and a time for every purpose under the heavens-- 661 00:58:28,430 --> 00:58:30,598 all God's iron will. 662 00:58:31,657 --> 00:58:33,661 A time to be born, a time to die, 663 00:58:33,765 --> 00:58:35,388 a time to kill, a time to heal, 664 00:58:35,491 --> 00:58:37,211 a time to weep, a time to laugh, 665 00:58:37,312 --> 00:58:39,381 a time to dance. . . 666 00:58:39,484 --> 00:58:41,173 a time to mourn. 667 00:58:43,574 --> 00:58:45,937 God's will? 668 00:58:46,034 --> 00:58:49,290 Business that God has given to everyone just. . . 669 00:58:49,389 --> 00:58:51,687 just to keep them busy! 670 00:58:52,743 --> 00:58:55,673 But we cannot know God. 671 00:58:55,779 --> 00:58:59,766 We cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end. 672 00:58:59,868 --> 00:59:03,724 Because what is, already has been, 673 00:59:03,829 --> 00:59:06,377 and what is to be, already is. 674 00:59:08,207 --> 00:59:10,789 Vanity is all there is. 675 00:59:10,889 --> 00:59:13,090 The more words, the more vanity. 676 00:59:17,632 --> 00:59:21,074 The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, 677 00:59:21,178 --> 00:59:24,915 nor bread to the wise, nor riches to the intelligent, 678 00:59:25,971 --> 00:59:28,933 but time and chance happen to them all. 679 00:59:30,028 --> 00:59:31,716 Mere chance. 680 00:59:31,817 --> 00:59:34,496 Belief otherwise is vanity. 681 00:59:34,596 --> 00:59:36,633 I believe in God. 682 00:59:54,565 --> 00:59:57,375 Jeroboam, remember your Creator in the days of your youth, 683 00:59:57,472 --> 01:00:00,434 before the days of troubles come, 684 01:00:00,538 --> 01:00:03,697 for the years draw near, faster than you think, 685 01:00:03,798 --> 01:00:05,486 when you will say, 686 01:00:08,461 --> 01:00:12,230 I have no pleasure. 687 01:00:17,152 --> 01:00:19,766 When strong men are bent, 688 01:00:19,867 --> 01:00:22,580 the golden bowl is broken, 689 01:00:22,679 --> 01:00:25,642 and the breath returns to God Who gave it. 690 01:00:31,401 --> 01:00:34,211 Vanity of vanities. 691 01:00:40,890 --> 01:00:42,861 All is vanity. 692 01:00:49,197 --> 01:00:51,397 The king is here. He's here. 693 01:00:53,254 --> 01:00:54,626 Quickly. 694 01:00:56,641 --> 01:00:58,743 Welcome, my husband and King. 695 01:01:04,116 --> 01:01:08,582 Is the great goddess Ashtoreth answering your prayers? 696 01:01:08,685 --> 01:01:10,569 She doesn't have to answer our prayers. 697 01:01:11,666 --> 01:01:15,076 She grants us children and cares for our loved ones in the afterlife. 698 01:01:15,180 --> 01:01:17,152 They shine down on us each night. 699 01:01:17,257 --> 01:01:19,871 Make an offering to the Mother of us all. 700 01:01:19,973 --> 01:01:23,415 No, no, no, I worship the one true God. 701 01:01:23,519 --> 01:01:29,042 Make an offering for the Mother of true love and your children, 702 01:01:29,143 --> 01:01:32,073 for the love you have shown me. 703 01:02:27,768 --> 01:02:30,959 I am deeply divided within myself. 704 01:02:32,497 --> 01:02:35,558 Solomon is my anointed king, 705 01:02:35,660 --> 01:02:38,622 but I worship the true God, 706 01:02:38,726 --> 01:02:42,583 and He will be my judge at my life's end. 707 01:02:42,688 --> 01:02:44,628 That is why I have come. 708 01:02:44,733 --> 01:02:47,096 I have seen with my own eyes 709 01:02:47,193 --> 01:02:51,147 our king worshipping this pagan goddess. 710 01:02:51,251 --> 01:02:54,028 Jeroboam, you are not the first to tell us of these things. 711 01:02:57,353 --> 01:02:59,259 There has been another ambush. 712 01:02:59,366 --> 01:03:02,656 I know, the taxes from Ephrian. 713 01:03:02,753 --> 01:03:04,026 Who stole them? 714 01:03:04,126 --> 01:03:07,252 Probably by the very men who paid those taxes. 715 01:03:07,353 --> 01:03:10,959 Zadok, men are starving. Their families are starving. 716 01:03:11,059 --> 01:03:13,161 They spit the king's name. 717 01:03:13,264 --> 01:03:15,050 Oh, Solomon! 718 01:03:16,235 --> 01:03:20,734 We must convince him to lift their burden. 719 01:03:20,836 --> 01:03:23,701 I will have an audience with him. 720 01:03:23,807 --> 01:03:25,049 Meanwhile, 721 01:03:25,148 --> 01:03:27,861 keep good watch on him, 722 01:03:27,960 --> 01:03:30,225 for his own sake. . . 723 01:03:30,324 --> 01:03:32,741 and for the whole kingdom. 724 01:03:41,512 --> 01:03:43,897 . . .who rules over the universe, 725 01:03:44,005 --> 01:03:47,545 without you, the river will not open. 726 01:03:47,646 --> 01:03:51,057 Merciful lady, hear us. 727 01:03:51,161 --> 01:03:54,604 Oh, mother of the fruitful breast. . . 728 01:03:54,708 --> 01:03:57,386 who rules over the universe, 729 01:03:57,487 --> 01:04:00,265 without you, the river will not open. . . 730 01:04:02,546 --> 01:04:05,476 It is written that the children of Israel 731 01:04:05,581 --> 01:04:09,569 should beware of marrying outside the faith. 732 01:04:09,671 --> 01:04:15,030 For those women will turn your heart away from the one true God. 733 01:04:15,582 --> 01:04:18,643 Much is written. Little is understood. 734 01:04:19,734 --> 01:04:22,577 You give sacrifices to gods that all true believers 735 01:04:22,674 --> 01:04:25,125 know to be obscene and wicked. 736 01:04:26,316 --> 01:04:27,907 Great Solomon, 737 01:04:28,009 --> 01:04:31,931 if you persist in your worship of false gods, 738 01:04:32,035 --> 01:04:35,542 you will bring God's anger on your own head 739 01:04:35,645 --> 01:04:38,771 and onto all this land of Israel and Judah. 740 01:04:38,872 --> 01:04:41,835 I study the world! 741 01:04:41,939 --> 01:04:46,024 It is possible to learn from the false as well as the true! 742 01:04:46,124 --> 01:04:50,972 God has given me the gift of wisdom and I shall use it as I see fit! 743 01:04:55,326 --> 01:04:59,280 Now you stick to the tasks that God and I have given you, Zadok, 744 01:05:02,195 --> 01:05:04,712 and I will stick to mine. 745 01:05:11,013 --> 01:05:13,376 Self-righteous fools! 746 01:05:14,814 --> 01:05:17,330 They know the law and they know you are breaking it. 747 01:05:17,435 --> 01:05:20,245 It was I who was given the gift of wisdom, 748 01:05:20,342 --> 01:05:23,402 by God Himself, not those doddery old windbags. 749 01:05:23,504 --> 01:05:25,541 They are God's representatives on earth. 750 01:05:25,646 --> 01:05:29,120 I am God's representative on earth! 751 01:05:29,894 --> 01:05:31,747 I am His anointed. 752 01:05:31,843 --> 01:05:33,335 What business is it of theirs 753 01:05:33,441 --> 01:05:36,251 if I show a tolerance to foreign gods? 754 01:05:36,348 --> 01:05:39,278 Building temples to them is more than showing tolerance! 755 01:05:41,077 --> 01:05:43,625 What do you know? You are a laborer. 756 01:05:46,603 --> 01:05:49,534 This laborer 757 01:05:49,638 --> 01:05:52,318 thinks you should take one of your secret walks. 758 01:05:59,159 --> 01:06:01,522 ( laughter ) 759 01:06:08,361 --> 01:06:11,171 On a hill, not far from my farm-- 760 01:06:11,268 --> 01:06:14,558 you can see it from my sheep pens-- an altar to Chemosh. 761 01:06:14,654 --> 01:06:17,105 I keep my woman and kids inside under lock and key 762 01:06:17,211 --> 01:06:18,769 when they're about. 763 01:06:18,872 --> 01:06:20,691 Disgusting! Shouldn't be allowed. 764 01:06:21,427 --> 01:06:24,358 And you know who I saw up there? The King himself! 765 01:06:24,463 --> 01:06:27,807 Yes, it's true! With his fancy women. 766 01:06:27,913 --> 01:06:30,527 All over them, he was. Yes, dearest. No, dearest. 767 01:06:32,769 --> 01:06:34,838 They're all over the place, these altars, 768 01:06:34,942 --> 01:06:36,761 like a plague of boils. 769 01:06:36,859 --> 01:06:39,375 - Hah! - Let's go and pull it down. 770 01:06:39,479 --> 01:06:41,864 I mean it. Who's going to stop us? 771 01:06:41,972 --> 01:06:43,659 Who'd disagree with us? 772 01:06:43,760 --> 01:06:45,644 You fools! 773 01:06:45,741 --> 01:06:47,081 I'm no fool! 774 01:06:47,178 --> 01:06:49,444 All of you! You're all fools! 775 01:06:51,076 --> 01:06:53,821 Israel is surrounded by goddess worshipers, 776 01:06:53,920 --> 01:06:55,674 every other country. . . 777 01:06:55,772 --> 01:06:58,801 and it's not only the king's wives, is it, hmm? 778 01:06:59,958 --> 01:07:03,215 Many other citizens make secret offerings at those same altars. 779 01:07:03,313 --> 01:07:06,569 - There is only one true God! - How do you know? Hmm? 780 01:07:06,667 --> 01:07:08,638 This is how I know, pagan! 781 01:07:09,703 --> 01:07:11,935 Hey, what's going on? Stop it! 782 01:07:12,035 --> 01:07:14,072 Stop it! Stop it! 783 01:07:16,029 --> 01:07:17,913 He's right, and you know it. 784 01:07:18,009 --> 01:07:21,452 Sidon, you caught your wife not ten days ago offering up. . . 785 01:07:21,555 --> 01:07:23,657 Yes, and I beat it out of her. 786 01:07:23,760 --> 01:07:25,481 She'll never worship false gods again. 787 01:07:25,580 --> 01:07:28,675 Hebrews have been worshipping the goddess Ashtoreth for generations! 788 01:07:28,776 --> 01:07:31,292 Thou shall have no other gods before me. 789 01:07:31,396 --> 01:07:32,887 Get out! Get out! 790 01:07:32,993 --> 01:07:35,095 Let's make sure! Let's knock it down! 791 01:07:35,198 --> 01:07:36,124 Get out! 792 01:07:43,536 --> 01:07:44,940 - Thank you! - Get out! 793 01:07:45,038 --> 01:07:48,164 I believe in only one God! Always will! 794 01:08:28,488 --> 01:08:29,730 I carry nothing. 795 01:08:33,888 --> 01:08:37,395 You carry a heavy burden of wrongs against the one true God. 796 01:08:38,808 --> 01:08:43,308 Because you have turned against Me and not kept covenant with Me, 797 01:08:43,408 --> 01:08:47,525 I will tear your kingdom from you, and give it to your servant. 798 01:08:47,626 --> 01:08:50,491 For your father, David's sake, while you live, you shall rule. 799 01:08:50,596 --> 01:08:54,007 But when you die, I will divide the kingdom. 800 01:08:54,111 --> 01:08:57,847 I will give your son one tribe, but the rest will I tear from him. 801 01:08:57,945 --> 01:09:00,974 Thus speaks the Lord, your God. 802 01:09:31,395 --> 01:09:33,432 Leave me alone! 803 01:09:33,536 --> 01:09:34,396 Where are you going? 804 01:09:34,495 --> 01:09:37,523 I will have you if I want you, and I do want you. 805 01:09:39,382 --> 01:09:40,242 Let me pass. 806 01:09:40,341 --> 01:09:41,289 Hey! 807 01:09:42,674 --> 01:09:45,288 - What do you think you're doing? - Leave me alone! 808 01:09:45,390 --> 01:09:49,377 - You leave her alone! - I'm the son of the King! Rehoboam! 809 01:09:49,478 --> 01:09:51,515 - I don't care who you are. - Let him go! 810 01:09:51,619 --> 01:09:53,470 He is who he says he is. 811 01:09:53,568 --> 01:09:56,052 He insulted my daughter. I don't care who he is. 812 01:09:56,156 --> 01:09:59,500 Give him over to my care. I will see the King hears of this. 813 01:09:59,606 --> 01:10:01,327 I will see justice done. 814 01:10:03,997 --> 01:10:06,612 I hope you will accept this as a fair recompense. 815 01:10:08,310 --> 01:10:09,868 Thank you, my lord. You are generous. 816 01:10:09,971 --> 01:10:12,073 - But I still think I'm ruler. . . - Leave it to me. 817 01:10:12,177 --> 01:10:14,922 I will see that justice is done. 818 01:10:19,364 --> 01:10:21,565 Solomon, you must speak with Rehoboam. 819 01:10:21,664 --> 01:10:23,124 He's a disgrace to you! 820 01:10:23,229 --> 01:10:26,192 He's young, and I was just like him at that age. 821 01:10:26,298 --> 01:10:29,228 No. Where you were proud, he is arrogant. 822 01:10:29,332 --> 01:10:31,598 Where you were wise, he is opinionated. 823 01:10:32,240 --> 01:10:34,146 Where you used your powers for the common good, 824 01:10:34,253 --> 01:10:36,322 he abuses them. 825 01:10:36,426 --> 01:10:39,998 You cared about the people, he cares only for himself. 826 01:10:40,100 --> 01:10:42,713 Every generation thinks their sons and their daughters 827 01:10:42,815 --> 01:10:44,567 are worse behaved than they were. 828 01:10:44,667 --> 01:10:48,916 - It is the way of the world. - It isn't our sons and daughters! 829 01:10:49,012 --> 01:10:50,319 It's you! 830 01:10:50,418 --> 01:10:53,097 You brought the kingdom of Israel and Judah to a pinnacle. 831 01:10:53,198 --> 01:10:54,382 - We were the envy of the world! - Nothing's changed. 832 01:10:54,679 --> 01:10:55,887 Everything has changed! 833 01:10:56,979 --> 01:11:01,793 You have abandoned God and God will abandon you! 834 01:11:03,337 --> 01:11:06,266 Zadok warned you on his deathbed! 835 01:11:06,372 --> 01:11:08,441 The priests have warned you. 836 01:11:08,545 --> 01:11:11,987 For all I know, God Himself has warned you. 837 01:11:12,091 --> 01:11:16,144 And still the false gods defile our land like the plague! 838 01:11:23,209 --> 01:11:27,513 I would allow no other man to speak to me like this, Jeroboam. 839 01:11:27,618 --> 01:11:31,224 Then hear me! It is not too late. 840 01:11:31,324 --> 01:11:34,615 You made me superintendent of the northern provinces! 841 01:11:34,712 --> 01:11:37,805 There is much anger there. If they should break away, 842 01:11:37,906 --> 01:11:39,561 it would be the end of everything. 843 01:11:39,663 --> 01:11:43,302 Israel would again be nothing more than a few wandering tribes. 844 01:11:43,401 --> 01:11:48,478 Then I suggest you go there to rule them, 845 01:11:48,577 --> 01:11:52,880 before I do something I might regret! 846 01:11:56,627 --> 01:11:58,120 Go on. Go. 847 01:12:01,068 --> 01:12:03,715 Yes, I will go. 848 01:12:06,851 --> 01:12:09,149 But not to the office of your court. 849 01:12:11,772 --> 01:12:14,102 And what does this mean, Jeroboam? 850 01:12:14,200 --> 01:12:16,237 It means. . . 851 01:12:16,340 --> 01:12:18,823 I will not be a part of your heathen ways. 852 01:12:18,928 --> 01:12:22,915 I'm separating myself from your government, 853 01:12:23,018 --> 01:12:27,135 as you have separated yourself from the one true God. 854 01:12:27,235 --> 01:12:28,639 Rebellion? 855 01:12:29,695 --> 01:12:32,822 Is this rebellion from the man I raised from a common laborer? 856 01:12:34,232 --> 01:12:35,822 Call it what you like. 857 01:12:37,682 --> 01:12:41,255 I cannot follow a King who does not follow his God. 858 01:12:41,356 --> 01:12:43,556 I will follow any god I wish! 859 01:12:43,657 --> 01:12:46,500 I learn from other gods. 860 01:12:46,597 --> 01:12:50,616 And I will rule as my mind and my heart tell me! 861 01:12:56,340 --> 01:12:57,995 And I shall do it all. . . 862 01:12:58,098 --> 01:13:01,736 without the hand-wringing cretins of the court! 863 01:13:01,835 --> 01:13:03,588 Do you hear me? 864 01:13:16,912 --> 01:13:19,014 Ah, Jeroboam. 865 01:13:19,116 --> 01:13:22,014 Come, eat. I've been waiting for you. 866 01:13:22,120 --> 01:13:24,287 You know my name? 867 01:13:24,388 --> 01:13:27,133 Who are you? Did the King send you? 868 01:13:27,231 --> 01:13:29,682 Not the King you mean. 869 01:13:29,788 --> 01:13:31,792 I'm Ahijah, from Shiloh. 870 01:13:31,897 --> 01:13:34,510 I serve our God, as I know you do also. 871 01:13:36,784 --> 01:13:39,366 Some say I am a prophet. 872 01:13:39,468 --> 01:13:42,049 - And are you? - Perhaps. 873 01:13:42,152 --> 01:13:44,636 Perhaps I hear God more clearly than most. 874 01:13:44,739 --> 01:13:47,452 Oh, I have a message for you. 875 01:13:52,279 --> 01:13:54,697 It's strong new cloth. Have you a knife? 876 01:14:01,896 --> 01:14:03,519 Good. Come. 877 01:14:22,056 --> 01:14:26,588 These twelve pieces of my cloak represent the twelve tribes of Israel. 878 01:14:27,965 --> 01:14:29,905 This is God's word to you. 879 01:14:30,905 --> 01:14:34,696 Solomon has broken his laws, and worshipped false gods. 880 01:14:34,804 --> 01:14:36,394 You have not. 881 01:14:36,496 --> 01:14:39,459 So, thus speaks the God of Israel. . . 882 01:14:41,640 --> 01:14:45,279 he will take the kingdom away from Solomon's son, Rehoboam, 883 01:14:45,378 --> 01:14:49,332 and give it to you-- that is, the ten tribes. 884 01:14:49,436 --> 01:14:52,975 Now he will give the tribe of Judah to Rehoboam, 885 01:14:53,078 --> 01:14:54,636 so that his servant, David, 886 01:14:54,740 --> 01:14:57,289 will always have a lamp before him in Jerusalem. 887 01:14:58,414 --> 01:15:00,167 Do you understand? 888 01:15:04,133 --> 01:15:05,592 Good. 889 01:15:05,698 --> 01:15:07,289 Now, I must be on my way. 890 01:15:10,330 --> 01:15:12,945 Keep God's law, 891 01:15:13,047 --> 01:15:15,889 and He will keep faith with you. Come. 892 01:15:15,985 --> 01:15:17,227 Come. 893 01:15:18,510 --> 01:15:19,968 Where are you going? 894 01:15:20,075 --> 01:15:22,276 To deliver the last two pieces of my cloak. 895 01:15:23,429 --> 01:15:24,921 Come on! 896 01:15:27,168 --> 01:15:29,400 God would do this? 897 01:15:30,330 --> 01:15:32,269 I'm simply His messenger. 898 01:15:33,877 --> 01:15:35,467 I should have you killed. . . 899 01:15:35,538 --> 01:15:38,087 I know it's sometimes the custom to kill the messenger 900 01:15:38,189 --> 01:15:40,226 who bears bad news, 901 01:15:40,330 --> 01:15:42,847 but the messenger from God? 902 01:15:42,950 --> 01:15:44,703 I would think carefully. 903 01:15:59,020 --> 01:16:00,359 Guard! Guard! 904 01:16:03,206 --> 01:16:04,578 Start a search. 905 01:16:04,675 --> 01:16:07,637 I want Jeroboam found and killed. 906 01:16:07,743 --> 01:16:10,357 He must not escape. 907 01:16:10,458 --> 01:16:12,212 A thousand measures of gold 908 01:16:12,311 --> 01:16:14,729 to the man who brings me back his body. 909 01:16:23,110 --> 01:16:24,733 Oh, Lord, Lord! 910 01:16:28,349 --> 01:16:29,591 Oh, Lord! 911 01:16:37,359 --> 01:16:39,809 ( weeping ) 912 01:16:59,819 --> 01:17:01,725 A gift from Ahijah, the Shilonite. 913 01:17:07,838 --> 01:17:09,362 Keep that, too. 914 01:17:14,420 --> 01:17:17,317 Now ride for Egypt. Your life is in grave danger. 915 01:17:17,422 --> 01:17:19,426 Stay there until you hear that Solomon is dead. 916 01:17:19,531 --> 01:17:21,055 Ride for your life! 917 01:17:30,043 --> 01:17:33,299 Where is my son? 918 01:17:33,398 --> 01:17:35,499 Where is Rehoboam? 919 01:17:45,602 --> 01:17:48,379 Rehoboam, 920 01:17:48,477 --> 01:17:51,636 my days draw to an end. 921 01:17:51,736 --> 01:17:54,252 And I have. . . 922 01:17:54,356 --> 01:17:56,207 been a fool. 923 01:17:57,263 --> 01:18:00,771 Listen to me, my son, listen to me. 924 01:18:03,269 --> 01:18:05,241 Fear God. . . 925 01:18:05,346 --> 01:18:07,514 and keep His commandments. 926 01:18:09,882 --> 01:18:11,407 I understand you, Father. 927 01:18:14,739 --> 01:18:17,385 Deal wisely with the tribes. . . 928 01:18:19,531 --> 01:18:21,667 Don't worry, Father. 929 01:18:23,238 --> 01:18:25,405 I know how to deal with them. 930 01:18:25,506 --> 01:18:28,883 No! No! 931 01:18:32,023 --> 01:18:35,727 ( choking ) 932 01:19:03,716 --> 01:19:07,159 ( applause ) 933 01:19:22,662 --> 01:19:23,904 Well. . . 934 01:19:24,963 --> 01:19:26,902 I've come to be anointed as your King. 935 01:19:28,573 --> 01:19:30,196 Have you lost your tongues? 936 01:19:32,279 --> 01:19:34,925 ( uproar ) 937 01:19:43,429 --> 01:19:45,019 You! 938 01:19:47,007 --> 01:19:50,646 Your father broke God's Holy Law 939 01:19:50,746 --> 01:19:53,131 and His punishment has fallen on His people. 940 01:19:53,238 --> 01:19:55,819 They groaned under Solomon's taxes. 941 01:19:55,921 --> 01:19:58,218 They bled under the lash of his forced labor. 942 01:19:58,317 --> 01:20:00,321 They will tolerate these things no longer. 943 01:20:00,426 --> 01:20:02,310 Crowd: Yes, yes! 944 01:20:04,387 --> 01:20:05,911 They want your word, 945 01:20:06,017 --> 01:20:07,955 there will be no more forced labor, 946 01:20:08,062 --> 01:20:10,360 and the taxes will be fair! 947 01:20:10,458 --> 01:20:11,916 Crowd: Yes, yes! 948 01:20:12,822 --> 01:20:16,329 Otherwise, they refuse to become your subjects. 949 01:20:27,072 --> 01:20:29,043 They refuse? 950 01:20:32,694 --> 01:20:36,070 I will discuss these matters with my council. 951 01:20:38,125 --> 01:20:40,936 We'll meet again in three days. 952 01:20:52,247 --> 01:20:55,471 I beg you, my lord, 953 01:20:55,570 --> 01:20:57,955 consider carefully. 954 01:20:58,061 --> 01:21:02,309 Your noble father always preferred peace to war. 955 01:21:02,406 --> 01:21:06,294 Of all wars that can be waged, the worst, 956 01:21:06,400 --> 01:21:10,735 the most bloody, is a civil war. 957 01:21:10,841 --> 01:21:13,651 It would be the end of the kingdom. 958 01:21:13,749 --> 01:21:16,167 ( uproar ) 959 01:21:17,230 --> 01:21:19,943 You are King! 960 01:21:20,042 --> 01:21:23,201 Any sign of weakness, if you give way to their demands, 961 01:21:23,301 --> 01:21:26,840 they will walk over you like cattle over a meadow! 962 01:21:26,943 --> 01:21:29,623 I say, stand firm! 963 01:21:29,723 --> 01:21:32,979 Why listen to these old graybeards? 964 01:21:33,077 --> 01:21:35,528 ( applause ) 965 01:21:41,992 --> 01:21:45,183 I have heard the young men of Judah. 966 01:21:45,282 --> 01:21:47,286 They acknowledge me King. 967 01:21:48,732 --> 01:21:51,314 As for you, 968 01:21:51,416 --> 01:21:54,095 you thought my father's yoke was heavy? 969 01:21:54,196 --> 01:21:56,102 Wait until you feel mine. 970 01:21:57,263 --> 01:21:59,267 You thought my father's taxes too high. 971 01:22:01,224 --> 01:22:03,195 Mine will crush you. 972 01:22:03,301 --> 01:22:06,231 How dare you speak out against your lawful King? 973 01:22:07,997 --> 01:22:10,895 My father chastised you with whips, 974 01:22:11,001 --> 01:22:13,234 I shall use scorpions! 975 01:22:13,332 --> 01:22:15,784 I am your King! 976 01:22:17,230 --> 01:22:20,422 This finger is thicker than my father's thigh! 977 01:22:20,521 --> 01:22:22,973 ( muttering ) 978 01:22:25,441 --> 01:22:27,478 That is your final word? 979 01:22:27,582 --> 01:22:29,401 I have nothing more to say. 980 01:22:33,364 --> 01:22:35,217 So be it. 981 01:22:37,869 --> 01:22:40,931 You have heard your King! 982 01:22:41,032 --> 01:22:42,339 Will you serve him? 983 01:22:42,438 --> 01:22:44,192 Crowd: No! 984 01:22:46,016 --> 01:22:51,539 Then we are no longer one nation! The prophesy was true. 985 01:22:51,639 --> 01:22:54,602 The glory of Solomon is gone forever. 986 01:22:59,372 --> 01:23:02,334 The prophesy was indeed true. 987 01:23:02,438 --> 01:23:05,848 Jeroboam ruled the ten tribes of Israel. 988 01:23:05,953 --> 01:23:09,296 Only the tribe of Judah remained loyal to Rehoboam. 989 01:23:11,735 --> 01:23:14,317 But Solomon's prayer was answered. 990 01:23:14,419 --> 01:23:17,675 For 360 years, the Temple remained a place. . . 991 01:23:17,773 --> 01:23:20,803 where God and His people would come together, 992 01:23:20,904 --> 01:23:24,031 where He would hearken to the prayers of mankind. . . 993 01:23:24,131 --> 01:23:25,754 and forgive. 994 01:23:25,804 --> 01:23:30,354 Repair and Synchronization by Easy Subtitles Synchronizer 1.0.0.0