2 Chronicles 8:11

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

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  • 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 7:8 : 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.
  • 1 Kgs 9:24 : 24 At that time Solomon made Pharaoh's daughter come up from the town of David to the house which he had made for her: then he made the Millo.
  • Ezek 21:2 : 2 Son of man, let your face be turned to Jerusalem, let your words be dropped in the direction of her holy place, and be a prophet against the land of Israel;
  • 2 Pet 1:18 : 18 And this voice came from heaven even to our ears, when we were with him on the holy mountain.
  • Exod 3:5 : 5 And he said, Do not come near: take off your shoes from your feet, for the place where you are is holy.
  • Exod 29:43 : 43 There I will come face to face with the children of Israel, and the Tent will be made holy by my glory

Similar Verses (AI)

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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.

  • 1 Kgs 3:1-2
    2 verses
    83%

    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.

    2 But all this time the people were making their offerings in the high places, because no house had been put up to the name of the Lord till those days.

  • 1 Kgs 11:1-5
    5 verses
    76%

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

    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.

  • 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. ...

  • 24 At that time Solomon made Pharaoh's daughter come up from the town of David to the house which he had made for her: then he made the Millo.

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    20 And the Lord has made his word come true; for I have taken my father David's place on the seat of the kingdom of Israel, as the Lord gave his word; and I have made a house for the name of the Lord, the God of Israel.

    21 In it I have made a place for the ark, in which is the agreement which the Lord made with our fathers, when he took them out of the land of Egypt.

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

  • 12 Then Solomon made burned offerings to the Lord on the altar of the Lord which he had put up in front of the covered way,

  • 1 Then Solomon sent for all the responsible men of Israel, and all the chiefs of the tribes, and the heads of families of the children of Israel, to come to him in Jerusalem to take the ark of the Lord's agreement up out of the town of David, which is Zion.

  • 1 Chr 22:6-8
    3 verses
    71%

    6 Then he sent for his son Solomon, and gave him orders for the building of a house for the Lord, the God of Israel.

    7 And David said to Solomon, My son, it was my desire to put up a house for the name of the Lord my God.

    8 But the word of the Lord came to me saying, You have taken lives without number and made great wars; I will not let you be the builder of a house for my name, because of the lives you have taken on the earth before my eyes.

  • 1 Now at the end of twenty years, in which time Solomon had put up the house of the Lord and a house for himself,

  • 7 He put the image of Asherah which he had made in the house of which the Lord had said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, the town which I have made mine out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my name for ever.

  • 2 Then Solomon sent for all the responsible men of Israel, all the chiefs of the tribes and the heads of families of the children of Israel, to come to Jerusalem and take the ark of the Lord's agreement up out of the town of David, which is Zion.

  • 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.

  • 13 So I have made for you a living-place, a house in which you may be for ever present.

  • 4 But the ark of God had been moved by David from Kiriath-jearim to the place which he had made ready for it, for he had put up a tent for it at Jerusalem.

  • 4 And when the queen of Sheba had seen all the wisdom of Solomon, and the house which he had made,

  • 1 Now it was Solomon's purpose to put up a house for the name of the Lord and a house for himself as king.

  • 2 So I have made for you a living-place, a house in which you may be for ever present.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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    16 From the day when I took my people Israel out of Egypt, no town in all the tribes of Israel has been marked out by me for the building of a house for the resting-place of my name; but I made selection of David to be king over my people Israel.

    17 Now it was in the heart of David my father to put up a house for the name of the Lord, the God of Israel.

  • 10 So David did not let the ark of the Lord come back to him to the town of David: but had it turned away and put into the house of Obed-edom the Gittite.

  • 3 And when the queen of Sheba had seen the wisdom of Solomon, and the house which he had made,

  • 47 But Solomon was the builder of his house.

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    11 (And the word of the Lord came to Solomon, saying,

    12 About this house which you are building: if you will keep my laws and give effect to my decisions and be guided by my rules, I will give effect to my word which I gave to David your father.

  • 11 ... the son of Abinadab in all Naphath-dor; his wife was Taphath, the daughter of Solomon.

  • 10 Now at the end of twenty years, in which time Solomon had put up the two houses, the house of the Lord and the king's house,

  • 27 And when the days of weeping were past, David sent for her, and took her into his house, and she became his wife and gave him a son. But the Lord was not pleased with the thing David had done.

  • 10 He will be the builder of a house for my name; he will be to me a son, and I will be to him a father; and I will make the seat of his rule over Israel certain for ever.

  • 1 And David made houses for himself in the town of David; and he got ready a place for the ark of God, and put up a tent for it.

  • 13 And David took more women and wives in Jerusalem, after he had come from Hebron: and he had more sons and daughters.

  • 11 And there I have put the ark, in which is the agreement of the Lord, which he made with the people of Israel.

  • 24 And David gave comfort to his wife Bath-sheba, and he went in to her and had connection with her: and she had a son to whom she gave the name Solomon. And he was dear to the Lord.

  • 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.

  • 3 And David made all Israel come together at Jerusalem, to take the ark of the Lord to its place, which he had got ready for it.

  • 11 Then David gave to his son Solomon the design of the doorway of the house of God and of its houses and its store-houses, and the higher rooms and the inner rooms and the place for the mercy-seat;

  • 18 And Rehoboam took as his wife Mahalath, the daughter of Jerimoth, the son of David and of Abihail, the daughter of Eliab, the son of Jesse;

  • 5 And so it is my purpose to make a house for the name of the Lord my God, as he said to David my father, Your son, whom I will make king in your place, will be the builder of a house for my name.