royal archive called a stela. and it mentions a house or dynasty of david. the reading is clear. it also mentions an entity, a state like entity called israel. it may seem like a small thing, but it s an important discovery. it makes david the earliest biblical figure whom we can confirm actually existed. but the stela doesn t confirm some of the more scandalous details of david s life. david, he was a guy who was the king. oh, he had it all. he could have anything he wanted. he had the absolute loyalty of his soldiers. he was on top and then he goes out, breaks a moral covenant with god. david was on his roof in jerusalem and he saw this beautiful woman bathing on the roof. and he said who s that woman? they said that s bathsheba, wife of uriah. his eye was the beginning of the problem.
built the city of jerusalem. david is one of the most fascinating characters in world literature. he looks almost perfect. reporter: david is the bible s first real hero. david was a very talented man who could sing, who could fight, who could lead. he s a poet. he s a musician. we re told that he s absolutely gorgeous to look at. and god loves him. reporter: and he s been portrayed by some of hollywood s biggest stars. in movies such as david and ba bathshebaa and king david. respect what is ours and we shall keep faith with you. reporter: david was ancient israel s greatest king. he is also one of islam s earliest prophets. and christians believe jesus is directly descended from david. and yet this hero was a deeply flawed man. david was kind of a bastard. there are some texts in which we
even muslims decided to build their sacred building on the same spot on the same hill. even though evidence of the temple or the man himself hasn t been found, most scholars believe there was a solomon. but not the larger than life solomon. he did not rule a vast kingdom. he did not build a huge capital city in jerusalem. he was not nationally or internationally known figure. even though the wisdom of solomon is legendary, it turns out like his father he had flaws too. his government is inflated. he runs according to forced labor. he s marrying and marrying hundreds of wives and hundreds of concubines who took his heart astray. the wives he took to enhance ties with foreign kingdoms turned him to their idols and eventually corrupted his own relationship with god. and the story of solomon s
settlement, hardly to be termed as a city. most probably unfortified, but it is here somewhere. we met an israeli archaeologist who leads a team digging for evidence of the original city which would have been existed around 1,000 b.c. and it s got an interesting name. at least we re calling it the parking lot dig. yeah. it s hard to believe, but five years ago cars used to park right above our heads here. and once we decided to go beneath the asphalt, immediately the remains of jerusalem began to appear. how much do we know about the temple? actually, we know nothing. we had absolutely no proof about the building itself. but they say they re getting closer. we know that from the ninth century on, just a little blit after the time after the time of solomon, most of the things told
amalgamate into a pretty powerful kingdom. solomon seemed determined not to repeat the mistakes of his father, king david, and his brothers, whose lust and pride wreaked havoc on their kingdom. solomon becomes the greatest king because he s of the davidic dynasty and yet he has none of the faults, none of the sins of david. solomon is known as the man of peace. reporter: and a man of wisdom. instead of killing his not mene solomon, we re told, married many of them, including a pharaoh s daughter. in other instances he disarmed them with his wit and his wisdom. like the famously beautiful ethiopian queen of sheba. the queen of sheba went to see the prophet solomon. reporter: in the bible the queen of sheba is drawn to jerusalem for an audience with solomon after hearing of his great wisdom. he treated her as an equal and as an equal politician.