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While these kings reigned in the places mentioned, the period of the
judges being ended, the kingdom of Israel next began with king Saul,
when Samuel the prophet lived. At that date those Latin kings began
who were surnamed Silvii, having that surname, in addition to their
proper name, from their predecessor, that son of Æneas who was called
Silvius; just as, long afterward, the successors of Caesar
Augustus were surnamed Caesars. Saul being rejected, so that none
of his issue should reign, on his death David succeeded him in the
kingdom, after he had reigned forty years. Then the Athenians ceased
to have kings after the death of Codrus, and began to have a
magistracy to rule the republic. After David, who also reigned forty
years, his son Solomon was king of Israel, who built that most noble
temple of God at Jerusalem. In his time Alba was built among the
Latins, from which thereafter the kings began to be styled kings not
of the Latins, but of the Albans, although in the same Latium.
Solomon was succeeded by his son Rehoboam, under whom that people was
divided into two kingdoms, and its separate parts began to have
separate kings.
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