1 Kings 11:3

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

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  • 2 Sam 5:13-16 : 13 After coming from Hebron, David took more concubines and wives from Jerusalem, and more sons and daughters were born to him. 14 These are the names of the children born to him in Jerusalem: Shammua, Shobab, Nathan, and Solomon, 15 Ibhar, Elishua, Nepheg, Japhia, 16 Elishama, Eliada, and Eliphelet.
  • 2 Chr 11:21 : 21 Rehoboam 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.
  • Eccl 7:28 : 28 While I was still searching but not finding, I found one upright man among a thousand, but not one upright woman among them all.
  • Judg 8:30-31 : 30 Gideon had seventy sons of his own, for he had many wives. 31 His concubine, who lived in Shechem, also bore him a son, and he named him Abimelech.
  • Judg 9:5 : 5 He went to his father’s house at Ophrah and killed his seventy brothers, the sons of Jerubbaal, on one stone. But Jotham, the youngest son of Jerubbaal, escaped by hiding himself.
  • 2 Sam 3:2-5 : 2 Sons were born to David in Hebron. His firstborn was Amnon, born of Ahinoam the Jezreelitess. 3 His second son was Chileab, born to Abigail, the widow of Nabal the Carmelite. The third was Absalom, the son of Maacah, the daughter of Talmai, king of Geshur. 4 The fourth was Adonijah, the son of Haggith; the fifth was Shephatiah, the son of Abital. 5 The sixth was Ithream, born to Eglah, David's wife. These were born to David in Hebron.

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  • 1 Kgs 11:4-11
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    88%

    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.'

  • 1 Kgs 11:1-2
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    85%

    1King Solomon loved many foreign women besides Pharaoh's daughter—Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, and Hittite women.

    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.

  • Deut 17:17
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    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.

  • Neh 13:26
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    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.

  • 2 Chr 11:21
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    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.

  • 1 Chr 14:3
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    3David took more wives in Jerusalem, and he had more sons and daughters.

  • Song 6:8
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    8There are sixty queens and eighty concubines, and uncountable young women.

  • 1 Kgs 7:8
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    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 3:1
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    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.

  • 2 Chr 8:10-11
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    10These were the chief officers over King Solomon’s projects: 250 officials who supervised the people.

    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.'

  • 2 Chr 11:23
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    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.

  • Song 3:11
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    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.

  • 2 Sam 20:3
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    3When David returned to his palace in Jerusalem, he took the ten concubines he had left to take care of the house and placed them in confinement, providing for them but no longer going to them. They remained confined like widows until the day of their death.

  • 2 Chr 13:21
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    21But Abijah grew stronger. He married fourteen wives and fathered twenty-two sons and sixteen daughters.

  • 2 Chr 9:12
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    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.

  • 2 Sam 15:16
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    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.

  • 1 Kgs 10:13
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    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.

  • 1 Kgs 3:16
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    16Then two women who were prostitutes came to the king and stood before him.

  • Ezra 10:44
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    44All these had married foreign women, and some of them had even fathered children by them.

  • 2 Sam 5:13
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    13After coming from Hebron, David took more concubines and wives from Jerusalem, and more sons and daughters were born to him.

  • 2 Chr 9:23
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    23All the kings of the earth sought an audience with Solomon to hear the wisdom God had put in his heart.

  • 2 Chr 9:3-4
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    3When the queen of Sheba saw the wisdom of Solomon and the house he had built,

    4the food on his table, the seating of his servants, the organization of his officials, and their clothing, as well as his cupbearers and the ascent by which he went up to the house of the LORD, she was breathless.

  • 2 Chr 7:11
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    11So Solomon finished the house of the LORD and the royal palace, and he successfully accomplished everything he had planned to do for the house of the LORD and for his own house.

  • 1 Kgs 10:3-5
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    68%

    3Solomon answered all her questions; there was nothing too difficult for the king to explain to her.

    4When the queen of Sheba saw all the wisdom of Solomon, the palace he had built,

    5the food on his table, the seating of his officials, the attendance of his servants in their attire, his cupbearers, and the burnt offerings he made at the temple of the LORD, she was overwhelmed.

  • Judg 3:6
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    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 Chr 1:14
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    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.

  • 1 Kgs 10:26
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    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.

  • 2 Chr 2:17
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    17He assigned seventy thousand of them as burden-bearers, eighty thousand as stonecutters in the mountains, and three thousand six hundred as supervisors to oversee the work.

  • 2 Sam 12:11
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    11This is what the Lord says: 'Look, I am going to bring disaster upon you from within your own household. I will take your wives before your very eyes and give them to someone close to you, who will sleep with them in broad daylight.

  • Prov 31:3
    67%

    3Do not give your strength to women or your ways to those who destroy kings.

  • Judg 8:30
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    30Gideon had seventy sons of his own, for he had many wives.

  • Deut 7:3
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    3Do not intermarry with them: do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons,

  • 1 Kgs 10:24
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    24The whole world sought an audience with Solomon to hear the wisdom that God had put in his heart.

  • 1 Kgs 3:3-4
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    3Solomon loved the LORD, walking according to the statutes of his father David, yet he offered sacrifices and burned incense on the high places.

    4The king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there because it was the most prominent high place. Solomon offered a thousand burnt offerings on that altar.

  • 2 Chr 9:25
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    25Solomon had four thousand stalls for horses and chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, whom he stationed in the chariot cities and also with him in Jerusalem.

  • Song 3:9
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    9King Solomon made himself a carriage from the woods of Lebanon.