1 Kings 11:1

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King Solomon loved many foreign women besides Pharaoh's daughter—Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, and Hittite women.

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  • Deut 17:17 : 17 He must not take many wives for himself, or his heart will be led astray. He must not accumulate large amounts of silver and gold.
  • Neh 13:23-27 : 23 Additionally, in those days I saw Jews who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab. 24 Half of their children spoke the language of Ashdod or the language of other peoples, but they could not speak the language of Judah. 25 So I confronted them, cursed them, struck some of them, pulled out their hair, and made them swear by God: 'You must not give your daughters in marriage to their sons or take their daughters for your sons or yourselves.' 26 Did not Solomon, king of Israel, sin because of such things? Among the many nations, there was no king like him; he was loved by his God, and God made him king over all Israel. Yet, even he was led into sin by foreign women. 27 Must we then hear about you committing all this terrible evil, acting unfaithfully against our God by marrying foreign women?
  • Prov 2:16 : 16 It will save you from the wayward woman, from the foreign woman with her flattering words,
  • Prov 5:8-9 : 8 Keep your way far from her, and do not go near the door of her house. 9 Lest you give your vigor to others, and your years to someone cruel; 10 Lest strangers feast on your strength, and your hard-earned wealth end up in the house of a foreigner. 11 At the end of your life you will groan, when your flesh and body are spent. 12 You will say, 'How I hated discipline, and my heart despised correction!' 13 I did not listen to the voice of my teachers or incline my ear to my instructors. 14 I was on the verge of total ruin in the midst of the assembly and the congregation. 15 Drink water from your own cistern, flowing water from your own well. 16 Should your springs be scattered abroad, your streams of water in the public squares? 17 Let them be yours alone, and not for strangers with you. 18 May your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth. 19 A loving doe, a graceful deer—may her breasts satisfy you always, and may you always be captivated by her love. 20 Why, my son, should you be captivated by a forbidden woman or embrace the bosom of a stranger?
  • Prov 6:24 : 24 They will keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the foreign woman.
  • Prov 7:5 : 5 To keep you from the strange woman, from the foreigner who flatters with her words.
  • Prov 22:14 : 14 The mouth of an adulterous woman is a deep pit; one who is cursed by the LORD will fall into it.
  • Prov 23:33 : 33 Your eyes will see strange things, and your heart will utter perverse things.
  • 1 Kgs 3:1 : 1 Solomon made a marriage alliance with Pharaoh, king of Egypt. He took Pharaoh's daughter and brought her to the City of David until he had finished building his own house, the house of the LORD, and the wall surrounding Jerusalem.
  • 1 Kgs 11:8 : 8 He did the same for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and offered sacrifices to their gods.
  • Lev 18:18 : 18 Do not take your wife’s sister as a rival wife and have sexual relations with her while your wife is living.
  • Gen 6:2-5 : 2 the sons of God saw that the daughters of humanity were beautiful, and they took wives for themselves from whomever they chose. 3 Then the Lord said, "My Spirit will not contend with humanity forever, because they are flesh; their days will be 120 years." 4 The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and also afterward—when the sons of God went to the daughters of humanity and had children by them. They were the mighty men of old, men of renown. 5 The Lord saw how great the wickedness of humanity had become on the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of their heart was only evil continually.

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  • 1 Kgs 11:2-11
    10 verses
    89%

    2These were from nations about which the LORD had told the Israelites, 'You must not intermarry with them, and they must not intermarry with you, for they will surely turn your hearts after their gods.' Nevertheless, Solomon clung to them in love.

    3He had seven hundred wives of royal birth and three hundred concubines, and his wives turned his heart away.

    4As Solomon grew older, his wives turned his heart after other gods, and his heart was not fully devoted to the LORD his God as the heart of David his father had been.

    5Solomon followed Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.

    6So Solomon did evil in the eyes of the LORD; he did not fully follow the LORD as David his father had done.

    7At that time Solomon built a high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, on the hill east of Jerusalem, and for Molech, the abomination of the Ammonites.

    8He did the same for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and offered sacrifices to their gods.

    9The LORD became angry with Solomon because his heart had turned away from the LORD, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice.

    10Although He commanded Solomon not to follow other gods, Solomon did not keep the LORD's command.

    11So the LORD said to Solomon, 'Since this is your attitude and you have not kept My covenant and decrees, which I commanded you, I will surely tear the kingdom away from you and give it to one of your subordinates.'

  • Neh 13:26-27
    2 verses
    83%

    26Did not Solomon, king of Israel, sin because of such things? Among the many nations, there was no king like him; he was loved by his God, and God made him king over all Israel. Yet, even he was led into sin by foreign women.

    27Must we then hear about you committing all this terrible evil, acting unfaithfully against our God by marrying foreign women?

  • 2 Chr 8:11
    76%

    11Solomon brought Pharaoh’s daughter up from the City of David to the house he had built for her, for he said, 'My wife must not live in the palace of King David of Israel, because the places have become holy where the ark of the Lord has entered.'

  • 1 Kgs 3:1
    75%

    1Solomon made a marriage alliance with Pharaoh, king of Egypt. He took Pharaoh's daughter and brought her to the City of David until he had finished building his own house, the house of the LORD, and the wall surrounding Jerusalem.

  • Ezra 10:44
    73%

    44All these had married foreign women, and some of them had even fathered children by them.

  • 1 Kgs 7:8
    72%

    8His own palace where he would reside, in another court behind the Hall, was built similarly. Solomon also built a palace for Pharaoh's daughter, whom he had married, following the same design as the Hall.

  • 1 Kgs 3:16
    72%

    16Then two women who were prostitutes came to the king and stood before him.

  • Mal 2:11
    71%

    11Judah has been unfaithful, and an abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem. Judah has profaned the sanctuary of the Lord, which He loves, and has married the daughter of a foreign god.

  • 1 Kgs 3:3
    70%

    3Solomon loved the LORD, walking according to the statutes of his father David, yet he offered sacrifices and burned incense on the high places.

  • 2 Chr 11:21
    70%

    21Rehoboam loved Maacah, the daughter of Absalom, more than all his other wives and concubines. He had married eighteen wives and had sixty concubines, and he fathered twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters.

  • Num 25:1
    70%

    1While Israel was staying in Shittim, the people began to commit sexual immorality with the women of Moab.

  • Deut 17:17
    70%

    17He must not take many wives for himself, or his heart will be led astray. He must not accumulate large amounts of silver and gold.

  • Exod 34:16
    69%

    16And when you take some of their daughters as wives for your sons, their daughters will lead your sons to prostitute themselves to their gods.

  • Song 3:11
    69%

    11Come out, daughters of Zion, and look at King Solomon wearing the crown his mother placed on him on the day of his wedding, the day his heart rejoiced.

  • 1 Kgs 9:16
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    16Pharaoh king of Egypt had attacked and captured Gezer. He burned it, killed the Canaanites who lived in the city, and gave it as a wedding gift to his daughter, Solomon's wife.

  • 2 Chr 9:12
    69%

    12King Solomon gave the queen of Sheba all she desired and asked for, in addition to what she had brought to the king. Then she turned and went back to her own land with her servants.

  • Song 1:1
    68%

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

  • 1 Kgs 10:13
    68%

    13King Solomon gave the queen of Sheba all she desired and asked for, in addition to what he had already given her out of his royal bounty. Then she left and returned to her own land with her attendants.

  • Song 3:9
    68%

    9King Solomon made himself a carriage from the woods of Lebanon.

  • 2 Chr 8:17
    68%

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

  • 2 Chr 1:13-14
    2 verses
    68%

    13Then Solomon returned from the high place at Gibeon, from before the tent of meeting, to Jerusalem, and he reigned over Israel.

    14Solomon gathered chariots and horsemen; he had 1,400 chariots and 12,000 horsemen, which he stationed in the chariot cities and also kept with him in Jerusalem.

  • 2 Chr 21:11
    68%

    11Jehoram also built high places in the hills of Judah, leading the inhabitants of Jerusalem into unfaithfulness and causing Judah to stray.

  • Deut 21:15
    67%

    15If a man has two wives, one loved and the other unloved, and both bear him sons, but the firstborn is the son of the unloved wife,

  • Judg 3:6
    67%

    6They took the daughters of these peoples as wives for themselves, gave their own daughters to the sons of these peoples, and worshiped their gods.

  • 2 Kgs 23:13
    67%

    13The king also defiled the high places east of Jerusalem, on the south of the Mount of Corruption, which Solomon, the king of Israel, had built for Ashtoreth, the detestable idol of the Sidonians, for Chemosh, the detestable idol of Moab, and for Milcom, the abomination of the Ammonites.

  • Prov 5:20
    67%

    20Why, my son, should you be captivated by a forbidden woman or embrace the bosom of a stranger?

  • 2 Chr 9:1
    67%

    1When the queen of Sheba heard of Solomon's fame, she came to test Solomon with hard questions in Jerusalem. She arrived with a very large entourage, including camels carrying spices, a great quantity of gold, and precious stones. She came to Solomon and spoke with him about everything that was on her mind.

  • 2 Sam 15:16
    67%

    16So the king set out, and all his household followed him on foot. But the king left behind ten concubines to take care of the palace.

  • Neh 13:23
    67%

    23Additionally, in those days I saw Jews who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.

  • 1 Chr 14:3
    67%

    3David took more wives in Jerusalem, and he had more sons and daughters.

  • 2 Chr 11:23
    67%

    23He was wise in distributing his sons throughout all the regions of Judah and Benjamin, to all the fortified cities. He provided them with abundant provisions and secured many wives for them.

  • 2 Chr 1:16
    67%

    16Solomon's horses were imported from Egypt and from Kue—the king’s traders bought them from Kue at the market price.

  • 1 Kgs 4:1
    67%

    1King Solomon ruled over all Israel.

  • Gen 36:2
    67%

    2Esau took his wives from the daughters of Canaan: Adah, the daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Oholibamah, the daughter of Anah, the daughter of Zibeon the Hivite.

  • Ezra 9:1
    67%

    1When these things were completed, the officials approached me and said, 'The people of Israel, including the priests and Levites, have not separated themselves from the surrounding peoples and their detestable practices, like those of the Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Jebusites, Ammonites, Moabites, Egyptians, and Amorites.'

  • Song 6:8
    67%

    8There are sixty queens and eighty concubines, and uncountable young women.

  • 1 Kgs 10:26
    67%

    26Solomon gathered chariots and horsemen; he had 1,400 chariots and 12,000 horsemen, which he stationed in the chariot cities and with the king in Jerusalem.

  • 1 Kgs 5:2
    67%

    2Solomon's daily provisions were thirty measures of the finest flour and sixty measures of regular flour.

  • 1 Kgs 10:10
    67%

    10And she gave the king 120 talents of gold, large quantities of spices, and precious stones. Never again were so many spices brought as those which the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon.