1 Kings 11:4

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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.

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  • 1 Kgs 9:4 : 4 You must serve me with integrity and sincerity, just as your father David did. Do everything I commanded and obey my rules and regulations.
  • 1 Kgs 8:61 : 61 May you demonstrate wholehearted devotion to the LORD our God by following his rules and obeying his commandments, as you are presently doing.”
  • Deut 7:4 : 4 for they will turn your sons away from me to worship other gods. Then the anger of the LORD will erupt against you and he will quickly destroy you.
  • 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.
  • 1 Kgs 6:1 : 1 The Building of the Temple In the four hundred and eightieth year after the Israelites left Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, during the month Ziv(the second month), he began building the LORD’s temple.
  • 1 Kgs 6:12-13 : 12 “As for this temple you are building, if you follow my rules, observe my regulations, and obey all my commandments, I will fulfill through you the promise I made to your father David. 13 I will live among the Israelites and will not abandon my people Israel.”
  • 1 Kgs 9:10 : 10 Foreign Affairs and Building Projects After twenty years, during which Solomon built the LORD’s temple and the royal palace,
  • 1 Kgs 11:2 : 2 They 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.
  • 1 Kgs 11:6 : 6 Solomon did evil in the LORD’s sight; he did not remain loyal to the LORD, like his father David had.
  • 1 Kgs 11:38 : 38 You must obey all I command you to do, follow my instructions, do what I approve, and keep my rules and commandments, like my servant David did. Then I will be with you and establish for you a lasting dynasty, as I did for David; I will give you Israel.
  • 1 Kgs 11:42 : 42 Solomon ruled over all Israel from Jerusalem for forty years.
  • 1 Kgs 14:21 : 21 Rehoboam’s Reign over Judah Now Rehoboam son of Solomon ruled in Judah. He was forty-one years old when he became king and he ruled for seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city the LORD chose from all the tribes of Israel to be his home. His mother was an Ammonite woman named Naamah.
  • 1 Kgs 15:3 : 3 He followed all the sinful practices of his father before him. He was not wholeheartedly devoted to the LORD his God, as his ancestor David had been.
  • 1 Kgs 15:14 : 14 The high places were not eliminated, yet Asa was wholeheartedly devoted to the LORD throughout his lifetime.
  • 2 Kgs 20:3 : 3 “Please, LORD. Remember how I have served you faithfully and with wholehearted devotion, and how I have carried out your will.” Then Hezekiah wept bitterly.
  • 1 Chr 28:9 : 9 “And you, Solomon my son, obey the God of your father and serve him with a submissive attitude and a willing spirit, for the LORD examines all minds and understands every motive of one’s thoughts. If you seek him, he will let you find him, but if you abandon him, he will reject you permanently.
  • 1 Chr 29:19 : 19 Make my son Solomon willing to obey your commands, rules, and regulations, and to complete building the palace for which I have made preparations.”
  • 2 Chr 17:3 : 3 The LORD was with Jehoshaphat because he followed in his ancestor David’s footsteps at the beginning of his reign. He did not seek the Baals,
  • 2 Chr 25:2 : 2 He did what the LORD approved, but not with wholehearted devotion.
  • 2 Chr 31:20-21 : 20 This is what Hezekiah did throughout Judah. He did what the LORD his God considered good and right and faithful. 21 He wholeheartedly and successfully reinstituted service in God’s temple and obedience to the law, in order to follow his God.
  • 2 Chr 34:2 : 2 He did what the LORD approved and followed in his ancestor David’s footsteps; he did not deviate to the right or the left.
  • Neh 13:26-27 : 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?”

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  • 1 Kgs 11:1-3
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    1The 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.

    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.

  • 1 Kgs 11:5-11
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    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
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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!

  • 1 Kgs 15:3
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    3He followed all the sinful practices of his father before him. He was not wholeheartedly devoted to the LORD his God, as his ancestor David had been.

  • 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.”

  • 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.

  • 1 Chr 29:19
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    19Make my son Solomon willing to obey your commands, rules, and regulations, and to complete building the palace for which I have made preparations.”

  • 1 Chr 28:9
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    9“And you, Solomon my son, obey the God of your father and serve him with a submissive attitude and a willing spirit, for the LORD examines all minds and understands every motive of one’s thoughts. If you seek him, he will let you find him, but if you abandon him, he will reject you permanently.

  • 1 Kgs 11:33
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    33I am taking the kingdom from him because they have abandoned me and worshiped the Sidonian goddess Astarte, the Moabite god Chemosh, and the Ammonite god Milcom. They have not followed my instructions by doing what I approve and obeying my rules and regulations, like Solomon’s father David did.

  • 1 Chr 23:1
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    1David Organizes the Levites When David was old and approaching the end of his life, he made his son Solomon king over Israel.

  • 1 Kgs 3:3-4
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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.

    4The king went to Gibeon to offer sacrifices, for it had the most prominent of the high places. Solomon would offer up a thousand burnt sacrifices on the altar there.

  • 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 11:41-43
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    41Solomon’s Reign Ends The rest of the events of Solomon’s reign, including all his accomplishments and his wise decisions, are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of Solomon.

    42Solomon ruled over all Israel from Jerusalem for forty years.

    43Then Solomon passed away and was buried in the city of his father David. His son Rehoboam replaced him as king.

  • 2 Chr 7:11
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    11The Lord Gives Solomon a Promise and a Warning After Solomon finished building the LORD’s temple and the royal palace, and accomplished all his plans for the LORD’s temple and his royal palace,

  • 2 Chr 9:30-31
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    30Solomon ruled over all Israel from Jerusalem for forty years.

    31Then Solomon passed away and was buried in the city of his father David. His son Rehoboam replaced him as king.

  • 2 Chr 9:4
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    4the food in his banquet hall, his servants and attendants in their robes, his cupbearers in their robes, and his burnt sacrifices which he presented in the LORD’s temple, she was amazed.

  • 1 Kgs 10:4-5
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    4When the queen of Sheba saw for herself Solomon’s extensive wisdom, the palace he had built,

    5the food in his banquet hall, his servants and attendants, their robes, his cupbearers, and his burnt offerings which he presented in the LORD’s temple, she was amazed.

  • 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.

  • 2 Chr 15:17
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    17The high places were not eliminated from Israel, yet Asa was wholeheartedly devoted to the LORD throughout his lifetime.

  • 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 3:6
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    6Solomon replied,“You demonstrated great loyalty to your servant, my father David, as he served you faithfully, properly, and sincerely. You have maintained this great loyalty to this day by allowing his son to sit on his throne.

  • 2 Chr 1:8
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    8Solomon replied to God,“You demonstrated great loyalty to my father David and have made me king in his place.

  • 1 Kgs 6:11
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    11The LORD’s message came to Solomon:

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

  • 1 Kgs 9:1
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    1The Lord Gives Solomon a Promise and a Warning After Solomon finished building the LORD’s temple, the royal palace, and all the other construction projects he had planned,

  • 2 Chr 1:1
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    1¶ The Lord Gives Solomon Wisdom Solomon son of David solidified his royal authority, for the LORD his God was with him and magnified him greatly.

  • 1 Kgs 9:10
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    10Foreign Affairs and Building Projects After twenty years, during which Solomon built the LORD’s temple and the royal palace,

  • Deut 7:4
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    4for they will turn your sons away from me to worship other gods. Then the anger of the LORD will erupt against you and he will quickly destroy you.

  • 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.

  • 2 Sam 12:11
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    11This is what the LORD has said:‘I am about to bring disaster on you from inside your own household! Right before your eyes I will take your wives and hand them over to your companion. He will go to bed with your wives in broad daylight!

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

  • 2 Chr 8:1
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    1Building Projects and Commercial Efforts After twenty years, during which Solomon built the LORD’s temple and his royal palace,

  • 2 Sam 20:3
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    3Then David went to his palace in Jerusalem. The king took the ten concubines he had left to care for the palace and placed them under confinement. Though he provided for their needs, he did not sleep with them. They remained under restriction until the day they died, living out the rest of their lives as widows.

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

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    11God said to Solomon,“Because you desire this, and did not ask for riches, wealth, and honor, or for vengeance on your enemies, and because you did not ask for long life, but requested wisdom and discernment so you can make judicial decisions for my people over whom I have made you king,

  • 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.

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