"However, Adele Berlin and Marc Zvi Brettler wrote an essay, based on the work of Michael D. Coogan and Carol A. Newsom, stating that the archeological record confirms the historicity of the narrative of increasing centralized authority over Israel during the tenth century BCE.
Yigael Yadin je naknadno ugotovil, da je hleve, za katere so bili prepričani, da so pripadali Salomonovi veliki čredi konj, v resnici zgradil kralj Ahab v 9. stoletju pr.