I. Solomon knew that the kingdom was to be rent (1Ki_11:11, 1Ki_11:12) and the People scattered; therefore he sought to kill Jeroboam (1Ki_11:39-40). The Chaldee Targum says, on Ecc_1:1, "These are the words of the prophecy which Koheleth delivered when Solomon foresaw, by the Spirit of prophecy, that the kingdom of Rehoboam his son would be divided by Jeroboam the son of Nebat".
was = came to be.
over Israel. Solomon was the only king of which this was wholly true.