We are forced to conclude that, as in Solomon's day, Yahwists believed that the power, prestige, wealth and apparent
security of the crown and the nation were bought at a price too dear — widening economic disparity between rich and poor, the ruthless exploitation of society's
weaker members, a deepening acquisitiveness and an inevitably accompanying disregard of the justice and righteousness of Yahweh, the meaning of covenant, and the true
practice of the Yahweh cult.