The altar of the Solomonic temple is on similar lines, but much larger.
The supposition of a Solomonic authorship for Proverbs is excluded by the whole colouring of the book, in which monotheism and monogamy are assumed, without discussion, to be generally accepted, while in Solomon's time and by Solomon's self the worship of many gods and the taking of more than one wife were freely practised, without rebuke from priest or prophet.
The objections to the Solomonic age as the time of origination of the book apply also to the period extending from Solomon through the 6th century.
