1 Kings 11:1

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The Lord Punishes Solomon for Idolatry King Solomon fell in love with many foreign women(besides Pharaoh’s daughter), including Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites.

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  • Deut 17:17 : 17 Furthermore, he must not marry many wives lest his affections turn aside, and he must not accumulate much silver and gold.
  • Neh 13:23-27 : 23 Also in those days I saw the men of Judah who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab. 24 Half of their children spoke the language of Ashdod(or the language of one of the other peoples mentioned) and were unable to speak the language of Judah. 25 So I entered a complaint with them. I called down a curse on them, and I struck some of the men and pulled out their hair. I had them swear by God saying,“You will not marry off your daughters to their sons, and you will not take any of their daughters as wives for your sons or for yourselves! 26 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! 27 Should we then in your case hear that you do all this great evil, thereby being unfaithful to our God by marrying foreign wives?”
  • Prov 2:16 : 16 to deliver you from the adulterous woman, from the loose woman who has flattered you with her words;
  • Prov 5:8-9 : 8 Keep yourself far from her, and do not go near the door of her house, 9 lest you give your vigor to others and your years to a cruel person, 10 lest strangers devour your strength, and your labor benefit another man’s house. 11 And at the end of your life you will groan when your flesh and your body are wasted away. 12 And you will say,“How I hated discipline! My heart spurned reproof! 13 For I did not obey my teachers and I did not heed my instructors. 14 I almost came to complete ruin in the midst of the whole congregation!” 15 Drink water from your own cistern and running water from your own well. 16 Should your springs be dispersed outside, your streams of water in the wide plazas? 17 Let them be for yourself alone, and not for strangers with you. 18 May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in the wife you married in your youth– 19 a loving doe, a graceful deer; may her breasts satisfy you at all times, may you be captivated by her love always. 20 But why should you be captivated, my son, by an adulteress, and embrace the bosom of a different woman?
  • Prov 6:24 : 24 by keeping you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the loose woman.
  • Prov 7:5 : 5 so that they may keep you from the adulterous woman, from the loose woman who has flattered you with her words.
  • Prov 22:14 : 14 The mouth of an adulteress is like a deep pit; the one against whom the LORD is angry will fall into it.
  • Prov 23:33 : 33 Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind will speak perverse things.
  • 1 Kgs 3:1 : 1 The Lord Gives Solomon Wisdom Solomon made an alliance by marriage with Pharaoh, king of Egypt; he married Pharaoh’s daughter. He brought her to the City of David until he could finish building his residence and the temple of the LORD and the wall around Jerusalem.
  • 1 Kgs 11:8 : 8 He built high places for all his foreign wives so they could burn incense and make sacrifices to their gods.
  • Lev 18:18 : 18 You must not take a woman in marriage and then marry her sister as a rival wife while she is still alive, to have sexual relations with her.
  • Gen 6:2-5 : 2 the sons of God saw that the daughters of humankind were beautiful. Thus they took wives for themselves from any they chose. 3 So the LORD said,“My Spirit will not remain in humankind indefinitely, since they are mortal. They will remain for 120 more years.” 4 The Nephilim were on the earth in those days(and also after this) when the sons of God would sleep with the daughters of humankind, who gave birth to their children. They were the mighty heroes of old, the famous men. 5 But the LORD saw that the wickedness of humankind had become great on the earth. Every inclination of the thoughts of their minds was only evil all the time.

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  • 1 Kgs 11:2-11
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    2They came from nations about which the LORD had warned the Israelites,“You must not establish friendly relations with them! If you do, they will surely shift your allegiance to their gods.” But Solomon was irresistibly attracted to them.

    3He had 700 royal wives and 300 concubines; his wives had a powerful influence over him.

    4When 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.

    5Solomon worshiped the Sidonian goddess Astarte and the detestable Ammonite god Milcom.

    6Solomon did evil in the LORD’s sight; he did not remain loyal to the LORD, like his father David had.

    7Furthermore, on the hill east of Jerusalem Solomon built a high place for the detestable Moabite god Chemosh and for the detestable Ammonite god Milcom.

    8He built high places for all his foreign wives so they could burn incense and make sacrifices to their gods.

    9The LORD was angry with Solomon because he had shifted his allegiance away from the LORD, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him on two occasions

    10and had warned him about this very thing, so that he would not follow other gods. But he did not obey the LORD’s command.

    11So the LORD said to Solomon,“Because you insist on doing these things and have not kept the covenantal rules I gave you, I will surely tear the kingdom away from you and give it to your servant.

  • Neh 13:26-27
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    26Was 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!

    27Should we then in your case hear that you do all this great evil, thereby being unfaithful to our God by marrying foreign wives?”

  • 2 Chr 8:11
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    11Solomon moved Pharaoh’s daughter up from the City of David to the palace he had built for her, for he said,“My wife must not live in the palace of King David of Israel, for the places where the ark of the LORD has entered are holy.”

  • 1 Kgs 3:1
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    1The Lord Gives Solomon Wisdom Solomon made an alliance by marriage with Pharaoh, king of Egypt; he married Pharaoh’s daughter. He brought her to the City of David until he could finish building his residence and the temple of the LORD and the wall around Jerusalem.

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

  • 1 Kgs 7:8
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    8The palace where he lived was constructed in a similar way. He also constructed a palace like this hall for Pharaoh’s daughter, whom he had married.

  • 1 Kgs 3:16
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    16Solomon Demonstrates His Wisdom Then two prostitutes came to the king and stood before him.

  • Mal 2:11
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    11Judah has become disloyal, and unspeakable sins have been committed in Israel and Jerusalem. For Judah has profaned the holy things that the LORD loves and has turned to a foreign god!

  • 1 Kgs 3:3
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    3Solomon demonstrated his loyalty to the LORD by following the practices of his father David, except that he offered sacrifices and burned incense on the high places.

  • 2 Chr 11:21
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    21Rehoboam loved Maacah daughter of Absalom more than his other wives and concubines. He had eighteen wives and sixty concubines; he fathered twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters.

  • Num 25:1
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    1Israel’s Sin with the Moabite Women When Israel lived in Shittim, the people began to commit sexual immorality with the daughters of Moab.

  • Deut 17:17
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    17Furthermore, he must not marry many wives lest his affections turn aside, and he must not accumulate much silver and gold.

  • Exod 34:16
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    16and you then take his daughters for your sons, and when his daughters prostitute themselves to their gods, they will make your sons prostitute themselves to their gods as well.

  • Song 3:11
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    11Come out, O maidens of Zion, and gaze upon King Solomon! He is wearing the crown with which his mother crowned him on his wedding day, on the most joyous day of his life!

  • 1 Kgs 9:16
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    16(Pharaoh, king of Egypt, had attacked and captured Gezer. He burned it and killed the Canaanites who lived in the city. He gave it as a wedding present to his daughter, who had married Solomon.)

  • 2 Chr 9:12
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    12King Solomon gave the queen of Sheba everything she requested, more than what she had brought him. Then she left and returned to her homeland with her attendants.

  • Song 1:1
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    1¶ Title/Superscription Solomon’s Most Excellent Love Song.

  • 1 Kgs 10:13
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    13King Solomon gave the queen of Sheba everything she requested, besides what he had freely offered her. Then she left and returned to her homeland with her attendants.

  • Song 3:9
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    9King Solomon made a sedan chair for himself of wood imported from Lebanon.

  • 2 Chr 8:17
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    17Then Solomon went to Ezion Geber and to Elat on the coast in the land of Edom.

  • 2 Chr 1:13-14
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    13Solomon left the meeting tent at the worship center in Gibeon and went to Jerusalem, where he reigned over Israel.

    14Solomon’s Wealth Solomon accumulated chariots and horses. He had 1,400 chariots and 12,000 horses. He kept them in assigned cities and in Jerusalem.

  • 2 Chr 21:11
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    11He also built high places on the hills of Judah; he encouraged the residents of Jerusalem to be unfaithful to the LORD and led Judah away from the LORD.

  • Deut 21:15
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    15Laws Concerning Children Suppose a man has two wives, one whom he loves more than the other, and they both bear him sons, with the firstborn being the child of the less loved wife.

  • Judg 3:6
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    6They took the Canaanites’ daughters as wives and gave their daughters to the Canaanites; they worshiped their gods as well.

  • 2 Kgs 23:13
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    13The king ruined the high places east of Jerusalem, south of the Mount of Destruction, that King Solomon of Israel had built for the detestable Sidonian goddess Astarte, the detestable Moabite god Chemosh, and the horrible Ammonite god Milcom.

  • Prov 5:20
    67%

    20But why should you be captivated, my son, by an adulteress, and embrace the bosom of a different woman?

  • 2 Chr 9:1
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    1Solomon Entertains a Queen When the queen of Sheba heard about Solomon, she came to challenge him with difficult questions. She arrived in Jerusalem with a great display of pomp, bringing with her camels carrying spices, a very large quantity of gold, and precious gems. She visited Solomon and discussed with him everything that was on her mind.

  • 2 Sam 15:16
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    16So the king and all the members of his royal court set out on foot, though the king left behind ten concubines to attend to the palace.

  • Neh 13:23
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    23Also in those days I saw the men of Judah who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.

  • 1 Chr 14:3
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    3In Jerusalem David married more wives and fathered more sons and daughters.

  • 2 Chr 11:23
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    23He wisely placed some of his many sons throughout the regions of Judah and Benjamin in the various fortified cities. He supplied them with abundant provisions and acquired many wives for them.

  • 2 Chr 1:16
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    16Solomon acquired his horses from Egypt and from Que; the king’s traders purchased them from Que.

  • 1 Kgs 4:1
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    1Solomon’s Royal Court and Administrators King Solomon ruled over all Israel.

  • Gen 36:2
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    2Esau took his wives from the Canaanites: Adah the daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Oholibamah the daughter of Anah and granddaughter of Zibeon the Hivite,

  • Ezra 9:1
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    1A Prayer of Ezra Now when these things had been completed, the leaders approached me and said,“The people of Israel, the priests, and the Levites have not separated themselves from the local residents who practice detestable things similar to those of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.

  • Song 6:8
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    8There may be sixty queens, and eighty concubines, and young women without number.

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    26Solomon accumulated chariots and horses. He had 1,400 chariots and 12,000 horses. He kept them in assigned cities and in Jerusalem.

  • 1 Kgs 5:2
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    2Solomon then sent this message to Hiram:

  • 1 Kgs 10:10
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    10She gave the king 120 talents of gold, a very large quantity of spices, and precious gems. The quantity of spices the queen of Sheba gave King Solomon has never been matched.