1 Kings 11:1

American Standard Version (1901)

Now king Solomon loved many foreign women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites;

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  • Deut 17:17 : 17 Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.
  • Neh 13:23-27 : 23 In those days also saw I the Jews that had married women of Ashdod, of Ammon, [and] of Moab: 24 and their children spake half in the speech of Ashdod, and could not speak in the Jews' language, but according to the language of each people. 25 And I contended with them, and cursed them, and smote certain of them, and plucked off their hair, and made them swear by God, [saying], Ye shall not give your daughters unto their sons, nor take their daughters for your sons, or for yourselves. 26 Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? yet among many nations was there no king like him, and he was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel: nevertheless even him did foreign women cause to sin. 27 Shall we then hearken unto you to do all this great evil, to trespass against our God in marrying foreign women?
  • Prov 2:16 : 16 To deliver thee from the strange woman, Even from the foreigner that flattereth with her words;
  • Prov 5:8-9 : 8 Remove thy way far from her, And come not nigh the door of her house; 9 Lest thou give thine honor unto others, And thy years unto the cruel; 10 Lest strangers be filled with thy strength, And thy labors [be] in the house of an alien, 11 And thou mourn at thy latter end, When thy flesh and thy body are consumed, 12 And say, How have I hated instruction, And my heart despised reproof; 13 Neither have I obeyed the voice of my teachers, Nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me! 14 I was well-nigh in all evil In the midst of the assembly and congregation. 15 Drink waters out of thine own cistern, And running waters out of thine own well. 16 Should thy springs be dispersed abroad, And streams of water in the streets? 17 Let them be for thyself alone, And not for strangers with thee. 18 Let thy fountain be blessed; And rejoice in the wife of thy youth. 19 [ As] a loving hind and a pleasant doe, Let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; And be thou ravished always with her love. 20 For why shouldest thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, And embrace the bosom of a foreigner?
  • Prov 6:24 : 24 To keep thee from the evil woman, From the flattery of the foreigner's tongue.
  • Prov 7:5 : 5 That they may keep thee from the strange woman, From the foreigner that flattereth with her words.
  • Prov 22:14 : 14 The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: He that is abhorred of Jehovah shall fall therein.
  • Prov 23:33 : 33 Thine eyes shall behold strange things, And thy heart shall utter perverse things.
  • 1 Kgs 3:1 : 1 And Solomon made affinity with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and took Pharaoh's daughter, and brought her into the city of David, until he had made an end of building his own house, and the house of Jehovah, and the wall of Jerusalem round about.
  • 1 Kgs 11:8 : 8 And so did he for all his foreign wives, who burnt incense and sacrificed unto their gods.
  • Lev 18:18 : 18 And thou shalt not take a wife to her sister, to be a rival [to her], to uncover her nakedness, besides the other in her life-time.
  • Gen 6:2-5 : 2 that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all that they chose. 3 And Jehovah said, My Spirit shall not strive with man for ever, for that he also is flesh: yet shall his days be a hundred and twenty years. [ 4 The Nephilim were in the earth in those days, and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them: the same were the mighty men that were of old, the men of renown. 5 And Jehovah saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

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  • 1 Kgs 11:2-11
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    89%

    2of the nations concerning which Jehovah said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall not go among them, neither shall they come among you; for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods: Solomon clave unto these in love.

    3And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines; and his wives turned away his heart.

    4For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his heart after other gods; and his heart was not perfect with Jehovah his God, as was the heart of David his father.

    5For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.

    6And Solomon did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, and went not fully after Jehovah, as did David his father.

    7Then did Solomon build a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, in the mount that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech the abomination of the children of Ammon.

    8And so did he for all his foreign wives, who burnt incense and sacrificed unto their gods.

    9And Jehovah was angry with Solomon, because his heart was turned away from Jehovah, the God of Israel, who had appeared unto him twice,

    10and had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not go after other gods: but he kept not that which Jehovah commanded.

    11Wherefore Jehovah said unto Solomon, Forasmuch as this is done of thee, and thou hast not kept my covenant and my statutes, which I have commanded thee, I will surely rend the kingdom from thee, and will give it to thy servant.

  • Neh 13:26-27
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    26Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? yet among many nations was there no king like him, and he was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel: nevertheless even him did foreign women cause to sin.

    27Shall we then hearken unto you to do all this great evil, to trespass against our God in marrying foreign women?

  • 2 Chr 8:11
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    11And Solomon brought up the daughter of Pharaoh out of the city of David unto the house that he had built for her; for he said, My wife shall not dwell in the house of David king of Israel, because the places are holy, whereunto the ark of Jehovah hath come.

  • 1 Kgs 3:1
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    1And Solomon made affinity with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and took Pharaoh's daughter, and brought her into the city of David, until he had made an end of building his own house, and the house of Jehovah, and the wall of Jerusalem round about.

  • Ezra 10:44
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    44All these had taken foreign wives; and some of them had wives by whom they had children.

  • 1 Kgs 7:8
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    8And his house where he was to dwell, the other court within the porch, was of the like work. He made also a house for Pharaoh's daughter (whom Solomon had taken to wife), like unto this porch.

  • 1 Kgs 3:16
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    16Then there came two women that were harlots, unto the king, and stood before him.

  • Mal 2:11
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    11Judah hath dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah hath profaned the holiness of Jehovah which he loveth, and hath married the daughter of a foreign god.

  • 1 Kgs 3:3
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    3And Solomon loved Jehovah, walking in the statutes of David his father: only he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.

  • 2 Chr 11:21
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    21And Rehoboam loved Maacah the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and his concubines: (for he took eighteen wives, and threescore concubines, and begat twenty and eight sons and threescore daughters.)

  • Num 25:1
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    1And Israel abode in Shittim; and the people began to play the harlot with the daughters of Moab:

  • Deut 17:17
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    17Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.

  • Exod 34:16
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    16and thou take of their daughters unto thy sons, and their daughters play the harlot after their gods, and make thy sons play the harlot after their gods.

  • Song 3:11
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    11Go forth, O ye daughters of Zion, and behold king Solomon, With the crown wherewith his mother hath crowned him In the day of his espousals, And in the day of the gladness of his heart.

  • 1 Kgs 9:16
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    16Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up, and taken Gezer, and burnt it with fire, and slain the Canaanites that dwelt in the city, and given it for a portion unto his daughter, Solomon's wife.

  • 2 Chr 9:12
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    12And king Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatsoever she asked, besides that which she had brought unto the king. So she turned, and went to her own land, she and her servants.

  • Song 1:1
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    1The Song of songs, which is Solomon's.

  • 1 Kgs 10:13
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    13And king Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatsoever she asked, besides that which Solomon gave her of his royal bounty. So she turned, and went to her own land, she and her servants.

  • Song 3:9
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    9King Solomon made himself a palanquin Of the wood of Lebanon.

  • 2 Chr 8:17
    68%

    17Then went Solomon to Ezion-geber, and to Eloth, on the seashore in the land of Edom.

  • 2 Chr 1:13-14
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    68%

    13So Solomon came from the high place that was at Gibeon, from before the tent of meeting, unto Jerusalem; and he reigned over Israel.

    14And Solomon gathered chariots and horsemen: and he had a thousand and four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, that he placed in the chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem.

  • 2 Chr 21:11
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    11Moreover he made high places in the mountains of Judah, and made the inhabitants of Jerusalem to play the harlot, and led Judah astray.

  • Deut 21:15
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    15If a man have two wives, the one beloved, and the other hated, and they have borne him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the first-born son be hers that was hated;

  • Judg 3:6
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    6and they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their own daughters to their sons and served their gods.

  • 2 Kgs 23:13
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    13And the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had builded for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon, did the king defile.

  • Prov 5:20
    67%

    20For why shouldest thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, And embrace the bosom of a foreigner?

  • 2 Chr 9:1
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    1And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, she came to prove Solomon with hard questions at Jerusalem, with a very great train, and camels that bare spices, and gold in abundance, and precious stones: and when she was come to Solomon, she communed with him of all that was in her heart.

  • 2 Sam 15:16
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    16And the king went forth, and all his household after him. And the king left ten women, that were concubines, to keep the house.

  • Neh 13:23
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    23In those days also saw I the Jews that had married women of Ashdod, of Ammon, [and] of Moab:

  • 1 Chr 14:3
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    3And David took more wives at Jerusalem; and David begat more sons and daughters.

  • 2 Chr 11:23
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    23And he dealt wisely, and dispersed of all his sons throughout all the lands of Judah and Benjamin, unto every fortified city: and he gave them victuals in abundance. And he sought [for them] many wives.

  • 2 Chr 1:16
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    16And the horses which Solomon had were brought out of Egypt; the king's merchants received them in droves, each drove at a price.

  • 1 Kgs 4:1
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    1And king Solomon was king over all Israel.

  • Gen 36:2
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    8There are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines, And virgins without number.

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  • 1 Kgs 5:2
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    2And Solomon sent to Hiram, saying,

  • 1 Kgs 10:10
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    10And she gave the king a hundred and twenty talents of gold, and of spices very great store, and precious stones: there came no more such abundance of spices as these which the queen of Sheba gave to king Solomon.