1 Kings 11:3

Bishops' Bible (1568)

And he had seuen hundred queenes, and three hundred concubines: and his wyues turned away his heart.

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  • 2 Sam 5:13-16 : 13 And Dauid toke him mo concubines and wyues out of Hierusalem, after he was come from Hebron, and mo sonnes & daughters were yet borne to Dauid. 14 And these be the names of the sonnes that were borne vnto him in Hierusalem: Samua, Sobab, Nathan, & Solomon, 15 Ibhar also and Elisua, Nepheg, and Iaphia, 16 Elisama, Eliada, and Eliphelet.
  • 2 Chr 11:21 : 21 And Rehoboam loued Maacha the daughter of Absolo aboue al his wyues and concubines: for he toke eyghteene wyues and threescore concubines, and begat twentie and eyght sonnes & threescore daughters.
  • Eccl 7:28 : 28 which as yet I seeke, and finde it not. Among a thousande men I haue founde one: but not one woman among all.
  • Judg 8:30-31 : 30 And Gedeon had threescore and ten sonnes of his body begotten: for he had many wyues. 31 And his cocubine that was in Sichem bare him a sonne also, whose name he called Abimelech.
  • Judg 9:5 : 5 And he went vnto his fathers house at Ephrah, and slue his brethren, the sonnes of Ierobaal, beyng threescore & ten persons, vpon one stone: Notwithstandyng, yet Ioatham the youngest sonne of Ierobaal escaped, for he hyd hymselfe.
  • 2 Sam 3:2-5 : 2 And vnto Dauid were children borne in Hebron: his eldest sonne also was Amnon of Ahinoam the Iesraelite: 3 The seconde, Cheleab of Abigail the wyfe of Nabal the Carmelite: the third, Absalom the sonne of Maacha the daughter of Thalmai, the king of Gessur: 4 The fourth, Adonia the sonne of Haggith: the fyft, Sephatia the sonne of Abital: 5 And the sixt Iethream, by Egla Dauids wyfe: These were borne to Dauid in Hebron.

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    4For 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.

    5For Solomon folowed Astaroth the god of the Zidons, and Milcom the abhomination of the Ammonites.

    6And Solomon wrought wickednesse in the sight of the Lorde, and folowed not the Lorde perfectly, as dyd Dauid his father.

    7For then dyd Solomon buylde an hye place for Chamos the abhomination of Moabim the hill that is before Hierusalem, & vnto Moloch the abhomination of the children of Ammon.

    8And lykewyse dyd he for all his outlandishe wyues, which burnt cense and offered vnto their gods.

    9And the Lorde was angry with Solomon, because his heart was turned fro the Lord God of Israel which had appeared vnto him twyse,

    10And gaue him a charge concerning this thyng, that he shoulde not folowe other gods: But he kept not that which the Lorde commaunded him.

    11Wherfore the Lorde sayde vnto Solomon: Forasmuche as this is done of thee, and thou hast not kept myne appoyntment, and my statutes whiche I commaunded thee, I wil rent the kingdome from thee, and will geue it to thy seruaunt.

  • 1 Kgs 11:1-2
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    1But king Solomo loued many outlandishe women, & the daughter of Pharao, and women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonites, & Hethites:

    2Wher as yet concerning these nations, the Lorde sayd vnto the children of Israel: Go not ye into them, nor let them come into, els will they turne your heartes after their gods: Neuerthelesse, Solomon claue vnto them in loue.

  • 17Also he ought not to multiplie wyues to him selfe, lest his heart turne away, neither shall he gather hym siluer and golde to much.

  • 26Dyd 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.

  • 21And Rehoboam loued Maacha the daughter of Absolo aboue al his wyues and concubines: for he toke eyghteene wyues and threescore concubines, and begat twentie and eyght sonnes & threescore daughters.

  • 3And Dauid toke yet mo wyues at Hierusalem, and begat mo sonnes and daughters.

  • 8There are threescore queenes, fourescore wiues, and damselles without number.

  • 8And his house wherein he dwelt had an other hall, more inward then the porche, of lyke worke: And then Solomo made an house for Pharaos daughter ( whom he had taken to wyfe) lyke vnto the fashion of the porche.

  • 1Solomon made affinitie with Pharao king of Egypt, & toke Pharaos daughter, and brought her into the citie of Dauid, vntil he had made an ende of buylding his owne house, and the house of the Lorde, and the wall of Hierusalem round about.

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    10And king Solomons officers that ouersawe and ruled the people, were two hundred and fiftie.

    11And Solomon brought the daughter of Pharao out of the citie of Dauid, into the house that he had buylded for her: For he sayde, My wyfe shall not dwel in the house of Dauid king of Israel, for it is holy, because that the arke of the Lorde is come vnto it.

  • 23And he played wyselie, and scattered all his children throughout al the countryes of Iuda and Beniamin vnto euery strong citie, and he gaue them aboundaunce of vittaile, and obtayned many wyues.

  • 11Go foorth (O ye daughters of Sion) and beholde king Solomon in the crowne wherewith his mother crowned him in the day of his mariage, and in the day of the gladnesse of his heart.

  • 3And Dauid came to his house to Hierusalem, and the king toke the ten women his concubines, that he had left behind him to kepe ye house, & put them in warde, & fed them, but lay no more with them: And so they were inclosed vnto the day of their death, lyuing in wydowhood.

  • 21But Abia waxed mightie, and maryed foureteene wiues, and begat twentie and two sonnes, and sixteene daughters.

  • 12And king Solomon gaue to the queene of Saba euery pleasant thing that she asked, besides that which she had brought vnto the king: And so she turned and went away to her owne lande with her seruauntes.

  • 16And the king departed, and al his housholde at his feete: And the king left ten concubines to kepe the house.

  • 13And king Solomon gaue vnto the queene of Saba according to all her desire whatsoeuer she asked, besides that he gaue her of a free wil with his owne hande: And so she returned vnto her owne countrey, both she and her seruauntes.

  • 16Then came there two women that were harlottes, vnto the king, & stoode before him.

  • 44All these had taken straunge wyues, and among the same there were some that had children by the wyues.

  • 13And Dauid toke him mo concubines and wyues out of Hierusalem, after he was come from Hebron, and mo sonnes & daughters were yet borne to Dauid.

  • 23And all the kinges of the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to heare his wysedome that God had put in his heart.

  • 2 Chr 9:3-4
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    3And when the queene of Saba had seene the wisdome of Solomon, and the house that he had buylt,

    4And the meate of his table, the sitting of his seruauntes, and the standing of his wayters, their apparell, his butlars, their apparell, his goyng vp by the whiche he went into the house of Lord: there was no more spirite in her.

  • 11And so Solomon finished the house of the Lorde, and the kinges house: and all that came in his heart to make in the house of the Lorde, & in his owne house, went prosperously forwarde.

  • 1 Kgs 10:3-5
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    3And Solomon declared vnto her all her questions, so that there was not one thing hyd from the king whiche he expounded not vnto her.

    4And the queene of Saba considered al Solomons wysdome, & the house that he had buylded,

    5And the meate of his table, and the sitting of his seruauntes, the order of his ministers & their apparell, & his drinke, and his burnt sacrifices that he offred in the house of the Lorde: and she was astonied.

  • 6And toke the daughters of them to be their wiues, & gaue their own daughters to their sonnes, and serued their goddes.

  • 14And Solomon gathered charets and horsemen: and he had a thousand and foure hundred charets, & twelue thousand horsemen, whom he bestowed in the charet cities, and with the king at Hierusalem.

  • 26And Solomon gathered together charettes and horsemen: and he had a thousande and foure hundred charettes, and twelue thousande horsemen, whom he bestowed in the charet cities, and with the king at Hierusalem.

  • 17And Solomon numbred all the straungers that were in the lande of Israel, after the number of them whom his father Dauid had numbred: And they were founde an hundred fiftie and three thousand, and sixe hundred.

  • 11Wherefore thus saith the Lorde: Beholde, I will stirre vp euil against thee, euen out of thyne owne house, and wyll take thy wyues before thyne eyes, and geue them vnto thy neyghbour, and he shall lye with thy wyues in the sight of this sunne.

  • 3Geue not ouer thy strength & wayes vnto women, which are the destruction euen of kynges.

  • 30And Gedeon had threescore and ten sonnes of his body begotten: for he had many wyues.

  • 3Thou shalt make no mariages with them: neither geue thy daughter vnto his sonne, nor take his daughter vnto thy sonne.

  • 24And all the worlde resorted to Solomon, to heare his wysdome which God had put in his heart:

  • 1 Kgs 3:3-4
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    3And Solomon loued the Lorde, walking in the ordinaunces of Dauid his father: saue onely that he sacrificed and offered incense vpon aulters in hygh places.

    4And the king went to Gibeon, to offer there, for that was the speciall hygh place: And a thousande burnt offringes dyd Solomon offer vpon that aulter.

  • 25And Solomon had foure thousand stalles for horses, and charrettes, and twelue thousand horsemen: whom he bestowed in the charet cities, and some were with the king at Hierusalem.

  • 9Kyng Solomon had made him selfe a pallace of the wood of Libanus,