1 Kings 11:4

Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

As 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.

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Other Translations

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    For 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 the LORD his God, as was the heart of David his father.

  • KJV1611 – Modern English

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

  • King James Version 1611 (Original)

    For 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 the LORD his God, as was the heart of David his father.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    For 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.

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    For 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 the LORD his God, as was the heart of David his father.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    And whan he was now olde, his wyues bowed his hert after straunge goddes, so that his hert was not whole with the LORDE his God, as was the hert of Dauid his father.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    For when Salomon was olde, his wiues turned his heart after other gods, so that his heart was not perfect with the Lord his God, as was the heart of Dauid his father.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    For it came to passe when Solomon was olde, his wyues turned his heart after other gods: and his heart was not perfect with the Lord his God, as was the heart of Dauid his father.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    For 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 the LORD his God, as [was] the heart of David his father.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

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

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    And it cometh to pass, at the time of the old age of Solomon, his wives have turned aside his heart after other gods, and his heart hath not been perfect with Jehovah his God, like the heart of David his father.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    For 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.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    For 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.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    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.

  • World English Bible (2000)

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

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    When Solomon became old, his wives shifted his allegiance to other gods; he was not wholeheartedly devoted to the LORD his God, as his father David had been.

Referenced Verses

  • 1 Kgs 9:4 : 4 'And as for you, if you walk before Me faithfully, as your father David did, with integrity of heart and uprightness, doing all I have commanded you and keeping My statutes and judgments,
  • 1 Kgs 8:61 : 61 May your hearts be fully devoted to the LORD our God, to walk in His statutes and to keep His commandments, as it is today.
  • Deut 7:4 : 4 because they will turn your sons away from following Me to serve other gods. Then the LORD's anger will burn against you, and He will quickly destroy you.
  • 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.
  • 1 Kgs 6:1 : 1 In the four hundred eightieth year after the people of Israel came out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month of Ziv (the second month), he began building the house of the LORD.
  • 1 Kgs 6:12-13 : 12 Concerning this house that you are building, if you will walk in my statutes and carry out my ordinances, and keep all my commandments by walking in them, then I will establish my word with you, which I spoke to David your father. 13 And I will dwell among the people of Israel and will not forsake my people Israel.
  • 1 Kgs 9:10 : 10 At the end of twenty years, during which Solomon had built the temple of the LORD and the royal palace,
  • 1 Kgs 11:2 : 2 These 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.
  • 1 Kgs 11:6 : 6 So Solomon did evil in the eyes of the LORD; he did not fully follow the LORD as David his father had done.
  • 1 Kgs 11:38 : 38 If you listen to all that I command you and walk in My ways, doing what is right in My eyes by keeping My statutes and commands, as My servant David did, then I will be with you. I will build you a sure house, as I built for David, and I will give Israel to you.
  • 1 Kgs 11:42 : 42 Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel for forty years.
  • 1 Kgs 14:21 : 21 Rehoboam son of Solomon reigned in Judah. He was forty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city the LORD had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel to put His Name there. His mother’s name was Naamah; she was an Ammonite.
  • 1 Kgs 15:3 : 3 He committed all the sins his father had done before him, and his heart was not fully devoted to the LORD his God, as the heart of David his forefather had been.
  • 1 Kgs 15:14 : 14 The high places were not removed, yet Asa’s heart was fully devoted to the LORD all his days.
  • 2 Kgs 20:3 : 3 saying, "Please, LORD, remember how I have walked before You in truth, wholeheartedly, and have done what is good in Your eyes." And Hezekiah wept bitterly.
  • 1 Chr 28:9 : 9 And you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father and serve Him with wholehearted devotion and a willing mind, for the LORD searches every heart and understands every intent of the thoughts. If you seek Him, He will be found by you; but if you forsake Him, He will reject you forever.
  • 1 Chr 29:19 : 19 And give my son Solomon an undivided heart to keep your commandments, your statutes, and your decrees, and to carry out all these plans, building the temple for which I have made preparations.
  • 2 Chr 17:3 : 3 The LORD was with Jehoshaphat because he followed the early ways of his ancestor David and did not seek after the Baals.
  • 2 Chr 25:2 : 2 He did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, but not wholeheartedly.
  • 2 Chr 31:20-21 : 20 This is what Hezekiah did throughout Judah. He did what was good, upright, and true before the Lord his God. 21 In everything he undertook in the service of the house of God, in observing the law and the commandments, and in seeking his God, he worked wholeheartedly and prospered.
  • 2 Chr 34:2 : 2 He did what was right in the sight of the LORD, walking in the ways of his forefather David. He did not turn aside to the right or to the left.
  • Neh 13:26-27 : 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?

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • 1 Kgs 11:1-3
    3 verses
    88%

    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.

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

  • 1 Kgs 11:5-11
    7 verses
    81%

    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
    75%

    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.

  • 1 Kgs 15:3
    73%

    3He committed all the sins his father had done before him, and his heart was not fully devoted to the LORD his God, as the heart of David his forefather had been.

  • 2 Chr 8:11
    73%

    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.'

  • Deut 17:17
    71%

    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.

  • 1 Chr 29:19
    71%

    19And give my son Solomon an undivided heart to keep your commandments, your statutes, and your decrees, and to carry out all these plans, building the temple for which I have made preparations.

  • 1 Chr 28:9
    71%

    9And you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father and serve Him with wholehearted devotion and a willing mind, for the LORD searches every heart and understands every intent of the thoughts. If you seek Him, He will be found by you; but if you forsake Him, He will reject you forever.

  • 1 Kgs 11:33
    70%

    33'For they have forsaken Me and worshiped Ashtoreth, the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh, the god of Moab, and Milcom, the god of the Ammonites. They have not walked in My ways, done what is right in My sight, or kept My statutes and judgments as David, his father, did.'

  • 1 Chr 23:1
    69%

    1When David was old and full of years, he made his son Solomon king over Israel.

  • 1 Kgs 3:3-4
    2 verses
    69%

    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.

  • 1 Kgs 7:8
    69%

    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 11:41-43
    3 verses
    69%

    41As for the rest of the acts of Solomon—all that he did and his wisdom—are they not written in the book of the acts of Solomon?

    42Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel for forty years.

    43Then Solomon rested with his fathers and was buried in the city of David, his father. And Rehoboam, his son, reigned in his place.

  • 2 Chr 7:11
    69%

    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.

  • 2 Chr 9:30-31
    2 verses
    69%

    30Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel for forty years.

    31Then Solomon rested with his ancestors and was buried in the city of David his father. Rehoboam his son succeeded him as king.

  • 2 Chr 9:4
    69%

    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.

  • 1 Kgs 10:4-5
    2 verses
    69%

    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.

  • 1 Kgs 3:1
    69%

    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 15:17
    68%

    17Although the high places were not removed from Israel, Asa’s heart was fully devoted to the LORD all his life.

  • Song 3:11
    68%

    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 3:6
    68%

    6Solomon replied, "You have shown great lovingkindness to your servant, my father David, because he walked before you in faithfulness, righteousness, and uprightness of heart. You have continued this great kindness to him by giving him a son to sit on his throne this day."

  • 2 Chr 1:8
    68%

    8Solomon replied to God, "You have shown great lovingkindness to my father David and have made me king in his place.

  • 1 Kgs 6:11
    68%

    11Then the word of the LORD came to Solomon, saying:

  • 1 Chr 14:3
    68%

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

  • 1 Kgs 9:1
    68%

    1When Solomon had finished building the house of the LORD, the royal palace, and everything he desired to accomplish,

  • 2 Chr 1:1
    68%

    1Solomon son of David established himself firmly over his kingdom, and the Lord his God was with him and made him exceedingly great.

  • 1 Kgs 9:10
    68%

    10At the end of twenty years, during which Solomon had built the temple of the LORD and the royal palace,

  • Deut 7:4
    68%

    4because they will turn your sons away from following Me to serve other gods. Then the LORD's anger will burn against you, and He will quickly destroy you.

  • 2 Chr 9:12
    68%

    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 12:11
    68%

    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.

  • 1 Kgs 4:1
    68%

    1King Solomon ruled over all Israel.

  • 2 Chr 8:1
    67%

    1After twenty years during which Solomon built the house of the Lord and his own house,

  • 2 Sam 20:3
    67%

    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 1:13
    67%

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

  • 2 Chr 1:11
    67%

    11God said to Solomon, "Because this was in your heart, and you have not asked for wealth, possessions, honor, the death of your enemies, or even many long years—but have asked for wisdom and knowledge to govern my people over whom I have made you king—

  • 1 Kgs 10:13
    67%

    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 2:1
    67%

    1As David's final days approached, he commanded his son Solomon, saying: