1 Kings 11:3

KJV1611 – Modern English

And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines: and his wives turned away his heart.

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  • 2 Sam 5:13-16 : 13 And David took more concubines and wives from Jerusalem after he came from Hebron, and more sons and daughters were born to David. 14 And these are the names of those who were born to him in Jerusalem: Shammua, and Shobab, and Nathan, and Solomon, 15 Ibhar also, and Elishua, and Nepheg, and Japhia, 16 And Elishama, and Eliada, and Eliphelet.
  • 2 Chr 11:21 : 21 Rehoboam loved Maachah the daughter of Absalom more than all his wives and concubines (for he took eighteen wives and sixty concubines, and begat twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters).
  • Eccl 7:28 : 28 Which my soul still seeks, but I find not; one man among a thousand I have found, but a woman among all those I have not found.
  • Judg 8:30-31 : 30 And Gideon had seventy sons born to him: for he had many wives. 31 And his concubine who was in Shechem, also bore him a son, whose name he called Abimelech.
  • Judg 9:5 : 5 And he went to his father's house at Ophrah, and killed his brothers, the sons of Jerubbaal, seventy persons, on one stone. But Jotham, the youngest son of Jerubbaal, was left, for he hid himself.
  • 2 Sam 3:2-5 : 2 And sons were born to David in Hebron; his firstborn was Amnon, by Ahinoam the Jezreelite. 3 And his second, Chileab, by Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite; and the third, Absalom, the son of Maacah, the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur. 4 And the fourth, Adonijah, the son of Haggith; and the fifth, Shephatiah, the son of Abital. 5 And the sixth, Ithream, by 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%

    4For 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.

    5For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.

    6And Solomon did evil in the sight of the LORD, and did not fully follow the LORD, as David his father did.

    7Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, on the hill before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the abomination of the children of Ammon.

    8And likewise he did for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods.

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

    10And had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not go after other gods: but he did not keep what the LORD commanded.

    11Therefore the LORD said to Solomon, Because this has been done by you, and you have not kept my covenant and my statutes, which I have commanded you, I will surely tear the kingdom from you, and will give it to your servant.

  • 1 Kgs 11:1-2
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    85%

    1But King Solomon loved many foreign women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh: women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites.

    2Of the nations concerning which the LORD had said to the children of Israel, You shall not go to them, nor shall they come to you: for surely they will turn your hearts after their gods: Solomon clung to these in love.

  • Deut 17:17
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    17Neither shall he multiply wives for himself, lest his heart turn away; nor shall he greatly multiply silver and gold for himself.

  • Neh 13:26
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    26Did 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.

  • 2 Chr 11:21
    73%

    21Rehoboam loved Maachah the daughter of Absalom more than all his wives and concubines (for he took eighteen wives and sixty concubines, and begat twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters).

  • 1 Chr 14:3
    71%

    3And David took more wives in Jerusalem, and David fathered more sons and daughters.

  • Song 6:8
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    8There are sixty queens, and eighty concubines, and virgins without number.

  • 1 Kgs 7:8
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    8And his house where he lived had another court inside the porch, of similar workmanship. Solomon also made a house for Pharaoh's daughter, whom he had taken as a wife, like this porch.

  • 1 Kgs 3:1
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    1And Solomon made an alliance with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and took Pharaoh's daughter, and brought her into the city of David, until he had finished building his own house, and the house of the LORD, and the wall around Jerusalem.

  • 2 Chr 8:10-11
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    10These were the chief officers of King Solomon, even two hundred and fifty, that ruled over the people.

    11And Solomon brought up the daughter of Pharaoh out of the city of David to the house he had built for her: for he said, My wife shall not dwell in the house of David king of Israel, because the places are holy, whereunto the ark of the LORD has come.

  • 2 Chr 11:23
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    23He acted wisely and dispersed of all his children throughout all the territories of Judah and Benjamin, to every fortified city, and he gave them provisions in abundance. And he desired many wives.

  • Song 3:11
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    11Go forth, O daughters of Zion, and behold King Solomon with the crown with which his mother crowned him on the day of his marriage, and in the day of the gladness of his heart.

  • 2 Sam 20:3
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    3And David returned to his house in Jerusalem, and the king took the ten concubines whom he had left to keep the house and put them in confinement. He provided for them but did not go in to them. So they were shut up until the day of their death, living as widows.

  • 2 Chr 13:21
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    21But Abijah became mighty, and married fourteen wives, and had twenty-two sons and sixteen daughters.

  • 2 Chr 9:12
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    12King Solomon gave the queen of Sheba all she desired, whatever she asked, besides what she had brought to the king. So she turned and went back to her own land, she and her servants.

  • 2 Sam 15:16
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    16And the king went forth, and all his household after him. And the king left ten women, who were concubines, to keep the house.

  • 1 Kgs 10:13
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    13And king Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all she desired, whatever she asked, besides what Solomon gave her of his royal bounty. So she turned and went to her own country, she and her servants.

  • 1 Kgs 3:16
    69%

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

  • Ezra 10:44
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    44All these had taken foreign wives, and some of them had wives by whom they had children.

  • 2 Sam 5:13
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    13And David took more concubines and wives from Jerusalem after he came from Hebron, and more sons and daughters were born to David.

  • 2 Chr 9:23
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    23All the kings of the earth sought the presence of Solomon to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart.

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

    4the food on his table, the seating of his servants, the service of his ministers and their apparel, his cupbearers in their apparel, and his entryway by which he went up to the house of the LORD, there was no more spirit in her.

  • 2 Chr 7:11
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    11Thus Solomon finished the house of the LORD and the king's house; and all that came into Solomon's heart to make in the house of the LORD, and in his own house, he prosperously accomplished.

  • 1 Kgs 10:3-5
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    3And Solomon answered all her questions: there was nothing hidden from the king, which he did not tell her.

    4And when the queen of Sheba had seen all Solomon's wisdom, and the house that he had built,

    5And the food of his table, and the seating of his servants, and the service of his officials, and their clothing, and his cupbearers, and his ascent by which he went up to the house of the LORD; there was no more spirit in her.

  • Judg 3:6
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    6And they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their daughters to their sons, and served their gods.

  • 2 Chr 1:14
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    14And Solomon gathered chariots and horsemen: and he had a thousand and four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, which he placed in the chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem.

  • 1 Kgs 10:26
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    26And Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen: and he had a thousand four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, whom he stationed in the chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem.

  • 2 Chr 2:17
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    17And Solomon numbered all the strangers that were in the land of Israel, according to the census in which David his father had numbered them; and they were found to be one hundred and fifty thousand and three thousand and six hundred.

  • 2 Sam 12:11
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    11Thus says the LORD, Behold, I will raise up evil against you from your own house, and I will take your wives before your eyes, and give them to your neighbor, and he shall lie with your wives in the sight of this sun.

  • Prov 31:3
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    3Do not give your strength to women, nor your ways to that which destroys kings.

  • Judg 8:30
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    30And Gideon had seventy sons born to him: for he had many wives.

  • Deut 7:3
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    3Neither shall you make marriages with them; your daughter you shall not give to his son, nor his daughter shall you take for your son.

  • 1 Kgs 10:24
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    24And all the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart.

  • 1 Kgs 3:3-4
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    3And Solomon loved the LORD, walking in the statutes of David his father; yet he sacrificed and burned incense at high places.

    4And the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there, for that was the great 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, which he stationed in the chariot cities and with the king at Jerusalem.

  • Song 3:9
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    9King Solomon made himself a chariot of the wood of Lebanon.