Nehemiah 13:26

Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

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.

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Other Translations

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? yet among many nations was there no king like him, who was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel: vertheless even him did outlandish women cause to sin.

  • KJV1611 – Modern English

    Did not King Solomon of Israel sin by these things? Yet among many nations there was no king like him, who was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel; nevertheless, pagan women caused even him to sin.

  • King James Version 1611 (Original)

    Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? yet among many nations was there no king like him, who was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel: nevertheless even him did outlandish women cause to sin.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? yet among many nations was there no king like him, and he was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel: nevertheless even him did foreign women cause to sin.

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? yet among many nations was there no king like him, who was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel: nevertheless even him did outlandish women cause to sin.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    Dyd not Salomon ye kynge of Israel synne ther in? & yet amonge many Heythen was there no kynge like him, & he was deare vnto his God, and God made him kynge ouer all Israel, and the outlandish wemen.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    Did not Salomon the king of Israel sinne by these thinges? yet among many nations was there no King like him: for he was beloued of his God, and God had made him King ouer Israel: yet strange women caused him to sinne.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    Dyd not Solomon the king of Israel sinne by these thinges? and yet among many heathen was there no king like him, which was deare vnto his God, & God made hym king ouer all Israel: and yet neuerthelesse outlandishe women caused him to sinne.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? yet among many nations was there no king like him, who was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel: nevertheless even him did outlandish women cause to sin.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? yet among many nations was there no king like him, and he was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel: nevertheless even him did foreign women cause to sin.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    `By these did not Solomon king of Israel sin? and among the many nations there was no king like him, and beloved by his God he was, and God maketh him king over all Israel -- even him did the strange women cause to sin.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? yet among many nations was there no king like him, and he was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel: nevertheless even him did foreign women cause to sin.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? yet among many nations was there no king like him, and he was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel: nevertheless even him did foreign women cause to sin.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    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.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    Didn't Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? Yet among many nations was there no king like him, and he was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel. Nevertheless foreign women caused even him to sin.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    Was it not because of things like these that King Solomon of Israel sinned? Among the many nations there was no king like him. He was loved by his God, and God made him king over all Israel. But the foreign wives made even him sin!

Referenced Verses

  • 1 Kgs 3:13 : 13 I have also given you what you did not ask for: both wealth and honor, so that in your lifetime no king will compare to you.
  • 2 Chr 1:12 : 12 Therefore wisdom and knowledge are given to you. I will also give you wealth, possessions, and honor, such as no king before you ever had and none after you will have."
  • 2 Sam 12:24-25 : 24 Then David comforted his wife Bathsheba, and he went to her and lay with her. She gave birth to a son, and they named him Solomon. The Lord loved him, 25 and because the Lord loved him, he sent word through Nathan the prophet to name him Jedidiah.
  • 1 Kgs 11:1-8 : 1 King Solomon loved many foreign women besides Pharaoh's daughter—Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, and Hittite women. 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. 3 He had seven hundred wives of royal birth and three hundred concubines, and his wives turned his heart away. 4 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. 5 Solomon followed Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites. 6 So Solomon did evil in the eyes of the LORD; he did not fully follow the LORD as David his father had done. 7 At 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. 8 He did the same for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and offered sacrifices to their gods.
  • 2 Chr 9:22 : 22 King Solomon was greater in riches and wisdom than all the kings of the earth.
  • Eccl 7:26 : 26 I found that more bitter than death is the woman whose heart is snares and nets, and whose hands are chains. The one who pleases God will escape her, but the sinner will be caught by her.

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 11:1-11
    11 verses
    83%

    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.

    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 13:27
    76%

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

  • Neh 13:25
    73%

    25So 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.'

  • 1 Kgs 3:16
    70%

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

  • Ezra 10:44
    70%

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

  • 2 Chr 8:11
    70%

    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.'

  • Mal 2:11
    69%

    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 Chr 29:25
    69%

    25The LORD greatly exalted Solomon in the sight of all Israel, and gave him royal majesty greater than that of any king before him in Israel.

  • 2 Chr 1:12-13
    2 verses
    69%

    12Therefore wisdom and knowledge are given to you. I will also give you wealth, possessions, and honor, such as no king before you ever had and none after you will have."

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

  • 2 Chr 21:13
    68%

    13But you followed the ways of the kings of Israel and led Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem into unfaithfulness, just as the house of Ahab led people into idolatry. You even killed your brothers, the members of your father's family, who were better than you.

  • Deut 17:17
    68%

    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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 1 Kgs 10:9
    68%

    9Praise be to the LORD your God, who has delighted in you and placed you on the throne of Israel. Because of the LORD's eternal love for Israel, he has made you king to uphold justice and righteousness.

  • 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.

  • 2 Chr 9:8-9
    2 verses
    67%

    8May the LORD your God be praised! He delighted in you and placed you on his throne as king for the LORD your God. Because of His love for Israel and His desire to uphold them forever, He has made you king over them to govern with justice and righteousness.

    9Then she gave the king a hundred twenty talents of gold, a great quantity of spices, and precious stones. There had never been such spices as those the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon.

  • Jer 44:9
    67%

    9Have you forgotten the wickedness of your fathers, the wickedness of the kings of Judah, the wickedness of their wives, your own wickedness, and the wickedness of your wives, which they committed in the land of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?

  • 1 Kgs 3:1
    67%

    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 Sam 14:13
    67%

    13The woman said, "Why have you devised such a thing against the people of God? By making this decision, the king is convicting himself for not bringing back his own banished son."

  • 1 Kgs 4:1
    67%

    1King Solomon ruled over all Israel.

  • 2 Chr 9:22
    67%

    22King Solomon was greater in riches and wisdom than all the kings of the earth.

  • Neh 13:23
    67%

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

  • Song 3:11
    67%

    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 10:3
    67%

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

  • 1 Kgs 21:26
    67%

    26He acted in the most detestable way by following idols, just as the Amorites had done, whom the LORD drove out before the Israelites.

  • 2 Chr 1:2
    67%

    2Solomon spoke to all Israel, to the commanders of thousands and hundreds, to the judges, and to all the leaders and heads of fathers’ households throughout Israel.

  • 1 Kgs 7:8
    67%

    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 10:23
    66%

    23King Solomon was greater in riches and wisdom than all the kings of the earth.

  • 2 Sam 12:11
    66%

    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.

  • Exod 34:16
    66%

    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.

  • 2 Chr 9:1-2
    2 verses
    66%

    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.

    2Solomon answered all her questions; there was nothing too difficult for Solomon to explain to her.

  • 2 Chr 21:11
    66%

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

  • 2 Chr 8:9
    66%

    9But Solomon did not make any of the Israelites slaves for his work; instead, they served as soldiers, commanders of his officers, commanders of his chariots, and his cavalry.

  • 1 Kgs 3:3
    66%

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

  • Ezra 10:14
    66%

    14Let our leaders act on behalf of the entire assembly. Then let all those in our towns who have married foreign women come at appointed times, along with the elders and judges of each town, until the fierce anger of our God regarding this matter is turned away from us.

  • 2 Chr 30:26
    66%

    26There was great joy in Jerusalem, for nothing like this had happened in Jerusalem since the days of Solomon son of David, king of Israel.

  • 2 Kgs 3:3
    66%

    3However, he continued in the sins of Jeroboam, son of Nebat, who caused Israel to sin; he clung to those sins and did not turn away from them.