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   ocr: New breed oT Heroes IKings 17 Then the woman said to Elijah, "Now I know that you are a man of God and that the word of the LORD from your mouth is the truth." (1 Kings 17:24) Int the end, Solomon's weaknesses seriously eroded the kingdom of srael. His lavish public projects laid a heavy tax burden on its citizens and forced him to conscript some of them as virtual slaves. His moral failures undermined the spiritual unity of the nation, and the brief, shining vision of a covenant nation graqually faded away. Atter Solomon's death, the nation split in two and slid toward ruin. The remaining par ...