666 Didn't Begin in Revelation… It Began with SOLOMON

SOLOMON: The mystery of the 666 talents of gold (1 Kings 10:14) The first mention of the number of the Beast.. Everyone knows the 666 of Revelation. Almost no one knows that this number first appeared centuries earlier in the account of the gold of the wisest man who ever lived. What the biblical writer concealed in that verse changes everything you think about the mark of the beast. SOURCES: Holy Bible 1 Kings 3-11; Deuteronomy 17:16-17; Revelation 13:16-18; Exodus 1:11; Isaiah 51:9; Ezekiel 29:3; Revelation 11:3; 12:6; 13:5 Bodner, K. & Strawn, B. “Solomon and 666 (Revelation 13.18)” New Testament Studies, Cambridge University Press, 2020 Harris, Z. “Forward and Reverse Gematria are Very Different Beasts” Open Theology, De Gruyter, 2024 Irenaeus of Lyons Adversus Haereses, Book V, ch. 28-30 (c. A.D. 180) Ben-Yosef, E. Excavations in the Timna Valley, Tel Aviv University Garfinkel, Y. Excavations at Khirbet Qeiyafa, Hebrew University of Jerusalem C-14 Dating Study of Gezer PLOS ONE, 2023 #solomon666 #numberofthebeast #revelation1318 #1kings1014 #biblicalmystery