1 Kings 11:1

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Now a number of strange women were loved by Solomon, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites:

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  • Deut 17:17 : 17 And he is not to have a great number of wives, for fear that his heart may be turned away; or great wealth of silver and gold.
  • Neh 13:23-27 : 23 And in those days I saw the Jews who were married to women of Ashdod and Ammon and Moab: 24 And their children were talking half in the language of Ashdod; they had no knowledge of the Jews' language, but made use of the language of the two peoples. 25 And I took up the cause against them, cursing them and giving blows to some of them and pulling out their hair; and I made them take an oath by God, saying, You are not to give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons or for yourselves. 26 Was it not in these things that Solomon, king of Israel, did wrong? among a number of nations there was no king like him, and he was dear to his God, and God made him king over all Israel: but even he was made to do evil by strange women. 27 Are we then without protest to let you do all this great evil, sinning against our God by taking strange women for your wives?
  • Prov 2:16 : 16 To take you out of the power of the strange woman, who says smooth words with her tongue;
  • Prov 5:8-9 : 8 Go far away from her, do not come near the door of her house; 9 For fear that you may give your honour to others, and your wealth to strange men: 10 And strange men may be full of your wealth, and the fruit of your work go to the house of others; 11 And you will be full of grief at the end of your life, when your flesh and your body are wasted; 12 And you will say, How was teaching hated by me, and my heart put no value on training; 13 I did not give attention to the voice of my teachers, my ear was not turned to those who were guiding me! 14 I was in almost all evil in the company of the people. 15 Let water from your store and not that of others be your drink, and running water from your fountain. 16 Let not your springs be flowing in the streets, or your streams of water in the open places. 17 Let them be for yourself only, not for other men with you. 18 Let blessing be on your fountain; have joy in the wife of your early years. 19 As a loving hind and a gentle doe, let her breasts ever give you rapture; let your passion at all times be moved by her love. 20 Why let yourself, my son, go out of the way with a strange woman, and take another woman in your arms?
  • Prov 6:24 : 24 They will keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the strange woman.
  • Prov 7:5 : 5 So that they may keep you from the strange woman, even from her whose words are smooth.
  • Prov 22:14 : 14 The mouth of strange women is a deep hole: he with whom the Lord is angry will go down into it.
  • Prov 23:33 : 33 Your eyes will see strange things, and you will say twisted things.
  • 1 Kgs 3:1 : 1 Solomon became the son-in-law of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and took Pharaoh's daughter as his wife, keeping her in the town of David, till the house he was building for himself, and the house of the Lord and the wall round Jerusalem, were complete.
  • 1 Kgs 11:8 : 8 And so he did for all his strange wives, who made offerings with burning of perfumes to their gods.
  • Lev 18:18 : 18 And you may not take as wife a woman and at the same time her sister, to be in competition with her in her life-time.
  • Gen 6:2-5 : 2 The sons of God saw that the daughters of men were fair; and they took wives for themselves from those who were pleasing to them. 3 And the Lord said, My spirit will not be in man for ever, for he is only flesh; so the days of his life will be a hundred and twenty years. 4 There were men of great strength and size on the earth in those days; and after that, when the sons of God had connection with the daughters of men, they gave birth to children: these were the great men of old days, the men of great name. 5 And the Lord saw that the sin of man was great on the earth, and that all the thoughts of his heart were evil.

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  • 1 Kgs 11:2-11
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    2 The nations of which the Lord had said to the children of Israel, You are not to take wives from them and they are not to take wives from you; or they will certainly make you go after their gods: to these Solomon was united in love.

    3 He had seven hundred wives, daughters of kings, and three hundred other wives; and through his wives his heart was turned away.

    4 For it came about that when Solomon was old, his heart was turned away to other gods by his wives; and his heart was no longer true to the Lord his God as the heart of his father David had been.

    5 For Solomon went after Ashtoreth, the goddess of the Zidonians, and Milcom, the disgusting god of the Ammonites.

    6 And Solomon did evil in the eyes of the Lord, not walking in the Lord's ways with all his heart as David his father did.

    7 Then Solomon put up a high place for Chemosh, the disgusting god of Moab, in the mountain before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the disgusting god worshipped by the children of Ammon.

    8 And so he did for all his strange wives, who made offerings with burning of perfumes to their gods.

    9 And the Lord was angry with Solomon, because his heart was turned away from the Lord, the God of Israel, who had twice come to him in a vision;

    10 And had given him orders about this very thing, that he was not to go after other gods; but he did not keep the orders of the Lord.

    11 So the Lord said to Solomon, Because you have done this, and have not kept my agreement and my laws, which I gave you, I will take the kingdom away from you by force and will give it to your servant.

  • Neh 13:26-27
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    26 Was it not in these things that Solomon, king of Israel, did wrong? among a number of nations there was no king like him, and he was dear to his God, and God made him king over all Israel: but even he was made to do evil by strange women.

    27 Are we then without protest to let you do all this great evil, sinning against our God by taking strange women for your wives?

  • 2 Chr 8:11
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    11 Then Solomon made Pharaoh's daughter come up from the town of David to the house which he had made for her; for he said, I will not have my wife living in the house of David, king of Israel, because those places where the ark of the Lord has come are holy.

  • 1 Kgs 3:1
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    1 Solomon became the son-in-law of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and took Pharaoh's daughter as his wife, keeping her in the town of David, till the house he was building for himself, and the house of the Lord and the wall round Jerusalem, were complete.

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    44 All these had taken strange wives; and some of them had wives by whom they had offspring.

  • 1 Kgs 7:8
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    8 And the house for his living-place, the other open square in the covered room, was made in the same way. And then he made a house like it for Pharaoh's daughter, whom Solomon had taken as his wife.

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  • Mal 2:11
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    11 Judah has been acting falsely, and a disgusting thing has been done in Jerusalem; for Judah has made unclean the holy place of the Lord which is dear to him, and has taken as his wife the daughter of a strange god.

  • 1 Kgs 3:3
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    3 And Solomon, in his love for the Lord, kept the laws of David his father; but he made offerings and let them go up in smoke on the high places.

  • 2 Chr 11:21
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    21 Maacah, the daughter of Absalom, was dearer to Rehoboam than all his wives and his servant-wives: (for he had eighteen wives and sixty servant-wives, and was the father of twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters.)

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    1 Now when Israel was living in Shittim the people became false to the Lord, doing evil with the daughters of Moab:

  • Deut 17:17
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    17 And he is not to have a great number of wives, for fear that his heart may be turned away; or great wealth of silver and gold.

  • Exod 34:16
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    16 Or take their daughters for your sons; for when their daughters give worship before their gods, they will make your sons take part with them.

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    11 Go out, O daughters of Jerusalem, and see King Solomon, with the crown which his mother put on his head on the day when he was married, and on the day of the joy of his heart.

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    16 Pharaoh, king of Egypt, came and took Gezer, burning it down and putting to death the Canaanites living in the town, and he gave it for a bride-offering to his daughter, Solomon's wife. ...

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    12 And King Solomon gave the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatever she made request for, in addition to what she had taken to the king. So she went back to her country with her servants.

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

  • 1 Kgs 10:13
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    13 And King Solomon gave the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatever she made request for, in addition to what he gave her freely from the impulse of his heart. So she went back to her country, she and her servants.

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    9 King Solomon made himself a bed of the wood of Lebanon.

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    17 Then Solomon went to Ezion-geber and to Eloth by the sea in the land of Edom.

  • 2 Chr 1:13-14
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    13 So Solomon went back from the high place at Gibeon, from before the Tent of meeting, to Jerusalem; and he was king over Israel.

    14 And Solomon got together war-carriages and horsemen; he had one thousand, four hundred carriages and twelve thousand horsemen, which he kept, some in the carriage-towns and some with the king at Jerusalem.

  • 2 Chr 21:11
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    11 And more than this, he made high places in the mountains of Judah, teaching the people of Jerusalem to go after false gods, and guiding Judah away from the true way.

  • Deut 21:15
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    15 If a man has two wives, one greatly loved and the other hated, and the two of them have had children by him; and if the first son is the child of the hated wife:

  • Judg 3:6
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    6 And they took as wives the daughters of these nations and gave their daughters to their sons, and became servants to their gods.

  • 2 Kgs 23:13
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    13 And the high places before Jerusalem, on the south side of the mountain of destruction, which Solomon, king of Israel, had made for Ashtoreth, the disgusting god of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh, the disgusting god of Moab, and for Milcom, the disgusting god of the children of Ammon, the king made unclean.

  • Prov 5:20
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    20 Why let yourself, my son, go out of the way with a strange woman, and take another woman in your arms?

  • 2 Chr 9:1
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    1 Now the queen of Sheba, hearing great things of Solomon, came to Jerusalem to put his wisdom to the test with hard questions; and with her came a very great train, and camels weighted down with spices, and great stores of gold and jewels: and when she came to Solomon she had talk with him of everything in her mind.

  • 2 Sam 15:16
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    16 So the king went out, taking with him all the people of his house, but for ten of his women, who were to take care of the house.

  • Neh 13:23
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    23 And in those days I saw the Jews who were married to women of Ashdod and Ammon and Moab:

  • 1 Chr 14:3
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    3 And while he was living in Jerusalem, David took more wives and became the father of more sons and daughters.

  • 2 Chr 11:23
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    23 And in his wisdom he had his sons stationed in every walled town through all the lands of Judah and Benjamin; and he gave them a great store of food, and took wives for them.

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    1 Now Solomon was king over all Israel.

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    2 And Solomon sent back word to Hiram, saying,

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    10 And she gave the king a hundred and twenty talents of gold, and a great store of spices and jewels: never again was such a wealth of spices seen as that which the queen of Sheba gave King Solomon.