1 Kings 11:8

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • 1 Kgs 11:1 : 1 But King Solomon loved many foreign women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh: women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites.
  • Ezek 16:22-29 : 22 And in all your abominations and your whoredoms you have not remembered the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare, and were polluted in your blood. 23 And it came to pass after all your wickedness, (woe, woe unto you! says the Lord GOD;) 24 That you have also built yourself an eminent place, and have made yourself a high place in every street. 25 You have built your high place at every head of the way, and have made your beauty to be abhorred, and have opened your feet to everyone that passed by, and multiplied your whoredoms. 26 You have also committed fornication with the Egyptians, your neighbors, great of flesh; and have increased your whoredoms, to provoke me to anger. 27 Behold, therefore I have stretched out my hand over you, and have diminished your ordinary food, and delivered you to the will of those that hate you, the daughters of the Philistines, who are ashamed of your lewd way. 28 You have played the harlot also with the Assyrians, because you were insatiable; yes, you have played the harlot with them, and yet could not be satisfied. 29 You have moreover multiplied your fornication in the land of Canaan unto Chaldea, and yet you were not satisfied with this.
  • Hos 4:11-12 : 11 Harlotry and wine and new wine take away the heart. 12 My people ask counsel from their wooden idols, and their staff declares to them, for the spirit of harlotry has caused them to err, and they have gone astray under their God.
  • 1 Cor 10:11-12 : 11 Now all these things happened to them as examples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages have come. 12 Therefore let him who thinks he stands take heed lest he fall.
  • 1 Cor 10:20-22 : 20 But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God: and I do not want you to have fellowship with demons. 21 You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons: you cannot partake of the Lord's table and of the table of demons. 22 Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than He?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 Kgs 11:1-7
    7 verses
    82%

    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.

    4 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.

    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.

  • Neh 13:26
    76%

    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.

  • 2 Chr 8:11-12
    2 verses
    76%

    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.

    12 Then Solomon offered burnt offerings to the LORD on the altar of the LORD, which he had built before the porch,

  • 1 Kgs 11:9-10
    2 verses
    76%

    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.

  • 1 Kgs 3:2-4
    3 verses
    75%

    2 But the people sacrificed at high places, because there was no house built for the name of the LORD until those days.

    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.

  • 2 Kgs 17:11
    73%

    11 There they burned incense on all the high places, as the nations had done whom the LORD carried away before them; and they did wicked things to provoke the LORD to anger.

  • 2 Kgs 23:13
    73%

    13 The high places that were before Jerusalem, which were to the right of the mount of Corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites, the king defiled.

  • 2 Chr 28:25
    73%

    25 And in every city of Judah, he made high places to burn incense to other gods, and provoked to anger the LORD God of his fathers.

  • 1 Kgs 8:62-64
    3 verses
    73%

    62 And the king, and all Israel with him, offered sacrifice before the LORD.

    63 And Solomon offered a sacrifice of peace offerings, which he offered to the LORD, twenty-two thousand oxen, and one hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the children of Israel dedicated the house of the LORD.

    64 The same day the king consecrated the middle of the court that was before the house of the LORD; for there he offered burnt offerings, grain offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings, because the bronze altar that was before the LORD was too small to receive the burnt offerings, grain offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings.

  • 2 Chr 28:3-4
    2 verses
    72%

    3 Moreover, he burned incense in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, and burned his children in the fire, after the abominations of the heathen whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel.

    4 He also sacrificed and burned incense on the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.

  • 2 Kgs 21:5-7
    3 verses
    72%

    5 And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD.

    6 And he made his son pass through the fire, practiced divination, sought omens, and dealt with mediums and spiritists: he did much evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking him to anger.

    7 And he set up the carved image of the Asherah he had made, in the house of which the LORD said to David and to Solomon his son, 'In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all tribes of Israel, I will put my name forever:'

  • 2 Kgs 21:3
    72%

    3 For he rebuilt the high places that Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he erected altars for Baal, and made an Asherah pole, as Ahab king of Israel had done; and worshiped all the host of heaven, and served them.

  • 2 Chr 7:7
    72%

    7 Moreover Solomon consecrated the middle of the court that was before the house of the LORD; for there he offered burnt offerings and the fat of the peace offerings, because the bronze altar that Solomon had made was not able to hold the burnt offerings, the grain offerings, and the fat.

  • 2 Chr 33:5-7
    3 verses
    71%

    5 And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD.

    6 And he caused his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom; also he observed times, used enchantments, used witchcraft, and dealt with a familiar spirit and with wizards; he did much evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.

    7 And he set a carved image, the idol he had made, in the house of God, of which God had said to David and Solomon his son, 'In this house and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen before all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name forever.'

  • 1 Kgs 7:8
    71%

    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.

  • 2 Chr 7:4
    71%

    4 Then the king and all the people offered sacrifices before the LORD.

  • 1 Kgs 9:25
    71%

    25 Three times in a year Solomon offered burnt offerings and peace offerings upon the altar which he built to the LORD, and he burnt incense upon the altar that was before the LORD. So he finished the house.

  • 2 Chr 33:3
    71%

    3 For he rebuilt the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down; he erected altars for Baal, made groves, and worshiped all the host of heaven and served them.

  • Deut 12:31
    70%

    31 You shall not do so to the LORD your God, for every abomination to the LORD which He hates they have done to their gods; for they have even burned their sons and daughters in the fire to their gods.

  • 2 Chr 21:11
    70%

    11 Moreover, he made high places in the mountains of Judah and led the inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit idolatry and influenced Judah to sin.

  • 2 Chr 1:6
    70%

    6 And Solomon went up there to the bronze altar before the LORD, which was at the tabernacle of the congregation, and offered a thousand burnt offerings upon it.

  • 2 Kgs 17:17
    70%

    17 They caused their sons and daughters to pass through the fire, practiced divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.

  • Ezra 10:44
    70%

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

  • Mal 2:11
    70%

    11 Judah has dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah has profaned the holiness of the LORD which he loved, and has married the daughter of a foreign god.

  • 2 Chr 11:15
    70%

    15 And he ordained priests for the high places, for the devils, and for the calves which he made.

  • 1 Kgs 21:26
    69%

    26 And he did very abominably in following idols, according to all things as the Amorites did, whom the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.

  • 1 Kgs 3:15
    69%

    15 And Solomon awoke; and, behold, it was a dream. And he came to Jerusalem, and stood before the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and offered burnt offerings, and offered peace offerings, and made a feast for all his servants.

  • 2 Chr 33:15
    69%

    15 And he removed the foreign gods and the idol from the house of the LORD, and all the altars he had built on the hill of the house of the LORD and in Jerusalem, and cast them out of the city.

  • 2 Kgs 8:18
    69%

    18 And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as did the house of Ahab: for the daughter of Ahab was his wife, and he did evil in the sight of the LORD.

  • 1 Kgs 8:22
    69%

    22 And Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence of all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven:

  • 2 Kgs 16:3
    69%

    3 But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yes, and made his son pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the nations whom the LORD had cast out from before the children of Israel.

  • 1 Kgs 22:53
    69%

    53 For he served Baal, and worshipped him, and provoked the Lord God of Israel to anger, according to all that his father had done.

  • 1 Kgs 11:33
    69%

    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.