1 Kings 11:4

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.

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  • 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.

  • 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.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    For it came to pass, when{H6256} Solomon{H8010} was old,{H2209} that his wives{H802} turned away{H5186} his heart{H3824} after{H310} other{H312} gods;{H430} and his heart{H3824} was not perfect{H8003} with Jehovah{H3068} his God,{H430} as was the heart{H3824} of David{H1732} his father.{H1}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    For it came to pass, when{H6256} Solomon{H8010} was old{H2209}, that his wives{H802} turned away{H5186}{(H8689)} his heart{H3824} after{H310} other{H312} gods{H430}: and his heart{H3824} was not perfect{H8003} with the LORD{H3068} his God{H430}, as was the heart{H3824} of David{H1732} his father{H1}.

  • 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 if you will walk before Me, as David your father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded you, and will keep My statutes and My judgments:
  • 1 Kgs 8:61 : 61 Let your heart therefore be perfect with the LORD our God, to walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as at this day.
  • Deut 7:4 : 4 For they will turn your son away from following me, that they may serve other gods: so the anger of the LORD will be kindled against you, and destroy you suddenly.
  • Deut 17:17 : 17 Neither shall he multiply wives for himself, lest his heart turn away; nor shall he greatly multiply silver and gold for himself.
  • 1 Kgs 6:1 : 1 And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel came out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month of Zif, which is the second month, that he began to build the house of the LORD.
  • 1 Kgs 6:12-13 : 12 As for this house which you are building, if you will walk in my statutes and execute my judgments and keep all my commandments to walk in them, then I will fulfill my word with you, which I spoke to David your father: 13 And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will not forsake my people Israel.
  • 1 Kgs 9:10 : 10 And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, when Solomon had built the two houses, the house of the LORD, and the king's house,
  • 1 Kgs 11:2 : 2 Of 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.
  • 1 Kgs 11:6 : 6 And Solomon did evil in the sight of the LORD, and did not fully follow the LORD, as David his father did.
  • 1 Kgs 11:38 : 38 And it shall be, if you will listen to all that I command you, and will walk in my ways, and do what is right in my sight, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as David my servant did; that I will be with you, and build you a sure house, as I built for David, and will give Israel to you.
  • 1 Kgs 11:42 : 42 And the time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel was forty years.
  • 1 Kgs 14:21 : 21 And Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD chose out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. And his mother's name was Naamah, an Ammonitess.
  • 1 Kgs 15:3 : 3 He walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before him; his heart was not right with the LORD his God, as the heart of David his father.
  • 1 Kgs 15:14 : 14 But the high places were not removed; nevertheless, Asa's heart was perfect with the LORD all his days.
  • 2 Kgs 20:3 : 3 I beg You, O LORD, remember now how I have walked before You in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done what is good in Your sight. And Hezekiah wept bitterly.
  • 1 Chr 28:9 : 9 And you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and a willing mind: for the LORD searches all hearts and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts: if you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.
  • 1 Chr 29:19 : 19 And give to Solomon my son a perfect heart, to keep Your commandments, Your testimonies, and Your statutes, and to do all these things, and to build the palace, for which I have made provision.
  • 2 Chr 17:3 : 3 And the LORD was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the first ways of his father David, and did not seek after the Baal idols;
  • 2 Chr 25:2 : 2 And he did what was right in the sight of the LORD, but not with a perfect heart.
  • 2 Chr 31:20-21 : 20 And so did Hezekiah throughout all Judah, and did what was good and right and true before the LORD his God. 21 And in every work that he began in the service of the house of God, and in the law, and in the commandments, to seek his God, he did it with all his heart, and prospered.
  • 2 Chr 34:2 : 2 And he did what was right in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the ways of David his father, and turned aside neither to the right hand nor to the left.
  • Neh 13:26-27 : 26 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. 27 Shall we then listen to you to do all this great evil, transgressing against our God by marrying pagan 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%

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

    2 Of 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.

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

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

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

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

    7 Then 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.

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

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

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

    11 Therefore 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.

  • Neh 13:26
    75%

    26 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.

  • 1 Kgs 15:3
    73%

    3 He walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before him; his heart was not right with the LORD his God, as the heart of David his father.

  • 2 Chr 8:11
    73%

    11 And 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.

  • Deut 17:17
    71%

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

  • 1 Chr 29:19
    71%

    19 And give to Solomon my son a perfect heart, to keep Your commandments, Your testimonies, and Your statutes, and to do all these things, and to build the palace, for which I have made provision.

  • 1 Chr 28:9
    71%

    9 And you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and a willing mind: for the LORD searches all hearts and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts: if you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.

  • 1 Kgs 11:33
    70%

    33 Because they have forsaken me, and have worshiped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Milcom the god of the children of Ammon, and have not walked in my ways, to do what is right in my eyes, and to keep my statutes and my judgments, as did David his father.

  • 1 Chr 23:1
    69%

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

  • 1 Kgs 3:3-4
    2 verses
    69%

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

    4 And the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there, for that was the great high place: Solomon offered a thousand burnt offerings on that altar.

  • 1 Kgs 7:8
    69%

    8 And 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 11:41-43
    3 verses
    69%

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

    42 And the time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel was forty years.

    43 And 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%

    11 Thus 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.

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

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

    31 Solomon slept with his fathers, and he was buried in the city of David his father, and Rehoboam his son reigned in his place.

  • 2 Chr 9:4
    69%

    4 the 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.

  • 1 Kgs 10:4-5
    2 verses
    69%

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

    5 And 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.

  • 1 Kgs 3:1
    69%

    1 And 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 15:17
    68%

    17 But the high places were not taken away out of Israel; nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect all his days.

  • Song 3:11
    68%

    11 Go 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.

  • 1 Kgs 3:6
    68%

    6 And Solomon said, You have shown to your servant David my father great mercy, as he walked before you in truth, and in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with you; and you have kept for him this great kindness, that you have given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day.

  • 2 Chr 1:8
    68%

    8 And Solomon said to God, You have shown great mercy to David my father, and have made me to reign in his place.

  • 1 Kgs 6:11
    68%

    11 And the word of the LORD came to Solomon, saying,

  • 1 Chr 14:3
    68%

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

  • 1 Kgs 9:1
    68%

    1 And it happened, when Solomon had finished building the house of the LORD, and the king's house, and all Solomon's desires which he was pleased to do,

  • 2 Chr 1:1
    68%

    1 And Solomon the son of David was strengthened in his kingdom, and the LORD his God was with him, and magnified him exceedingly.

  • 1 Kgs 9:10
    68%

    10 And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, when Solomon had built the two houses, the house of the LORD, and the king's house,

  • Deut 7:4
    68%

    4 For they will turn your son away from following me, that they may serve other gods: so the anger of the LORD will be kindled against you, and destroy you suddenly.

  • 2 Chr 9:12
    68%

    12 King 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 12:11
    68%

    11 Thus 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.

  • 1 Kgs 4:1
    68%

    1 So King Solomon was king over all Israel.

  • 2 Chr 8:1
    67%

    1 And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, during which Solomon had built the house of the LORD and his own house,

  • 2 Sam 20:3
    67%

    3 And 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 1:13
    67%

    13 Then Solomon came from his journey to the high place that was at Gibeon to Jerusalem, from before the tabernacle of the congregation, and reigned over Israel.

  • 2 Chr 1:11
    67%

    11 And God said to Solomon, Because this was in your heart, and you have not asked riches, wealth, or honor, nor the life of your enemies, neither yet have asked long life; but have asked wisdom and knowledge for yourself, that you may judge my people, over whom I have made you king:

  • 1 Kgs 10:13
    67%

    13 And 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 2:1
    67%

    1 Now the days of David grew near that he should die; and he charged Solomon his son, saying,