1 Kings 11:1

World English Bible (2000)

Now king Solomon loved many foreign women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites;

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  • Deut 17:17 : 17 Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart not turn away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.
  • Neh 13:23-27 : 23 In those days also saw I the Jews who had married women of Ashdod, of Ammon, [and] of Moab: 24 and their children spoke half in the speech of Ashdod, and could not speak in the Jews' language, but according to the language of each people. 25 I contended with them, and cursed them, and struck certain of them, and plucked off their hair, and made them swear by God, [saying], "You shall not give your daughters to their sons, nor take their daughters for your sons, or for yourselves. 26 Didn't Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? Yet among many nations was there no king like him, and he was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel. Nevertheless foreign women caused even him to sin. 27 Shall we then listen to you to do all this great evil, to trespass against our God in marrying foreign women?"
  • Prov 2:16 : 16 To deliver you from the strange woman, even from the foreigner who flatters with her words;
  • Prov 5:8-9 : 8 Remove your way far from her. Don't come near the door of her house, 9 lest you give your honor to others, and your years to the cruel one; 10 lest strangers feast on your wealth, and your labors enrich another man's house. 11 You will groan at your latter end, when your flesh and your body are consumed, 12 and say, "How I have hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof; 13 neither have I obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor turned my ear to those who instructed me! 14 I have come to the brink of utter ruin, in the midst of the gathered assembly." 15 Drink water out of your own cistern, running water out of your own well. 16 Should your springs overflow in the streets, streams of water in the public squares? 17 Let them be for yourself alone, not for strangers with you. 18 Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth. 19 A loving doe and a graceful deer-- let her breasts satisfy you at all times. Be captivated always with her love. 20 For why should you, my son, be captivated with an adulteress? Why embrace the bosom of another?
  • Prov 6:24 : 24 to keep you from the immoral woman, from the flattery of the wayward wife's tongue.
  • Prov 7:5 : 5 that they may keep you from the strange woman, from the foreigner who flatters with her words.
  • Prov 22:14 : 14 The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit: he who is under Yahweh's wrath will fall into it.
  • Prov 23:33 : 33 Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind will imagine confusing things.
  • 1 Kgs 3:1 : 1 Solomon made affinity with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and took Pharaoh's daughter, and brought her into the city of David, until he had made an end of building his own house, and the house of Yahweh, and the wall of Jerusalem all around.
  • 1 Kgs 11:8 : 8 So did he for all his foreign wives, who burnt incense and sacrificed to their gods.
  • Lev 18:18 : 18 "'You shall not take a wife to her sister, to be a rival, to uncover her nakedness, while her sister is yet alive.
  • Gen 6:2-5 : 2 that God's sons saw that men's daughters were beautiful, and they took for themselves wives of all that they chose. 3 Yahweh said, "My Spirit will not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; yet will his days be one hundred twenty years." 4 The Nephilim were in the earth in those days, and also after that, when God's sons came in to men's daughters. They bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown. 5 Yahweh saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

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  • 1 Kgs 11:2-11
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    89%

    2 of the nations concerning which Yahweh said to the children of Israel, "You shall not go among them, neither shall they come among you; for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods." Solomon joined to these in love.

    3 He had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines; and his wives turned away his heart.

    4 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.

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

    6 Solomon did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and didn't go fully after Yahweh, as did David his father.

    7 Then did Solomon build a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, on the mountain that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech the abomination of the children of Ammon.

    8 So did he for all his foreign wives, who burnt incense and sacrificed to their gods.

    9 Yahweh was angry with Solomon, because his heart was turned away from Yahweh, the 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 didn't keep that which Yahweh commanded.

    11 Therefore Yahweh said to Solomon, "Because this is 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 13:26-27
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    83%

    26 Didn't Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? Yet among many nations was there no king like him, and he was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel. Nevertheless foreign women caused even him to sin.

    27 Shall we then listen to you to do all this great evil, to trespass against our God in marrying foreign women?"

  • 2 Chr 8:11
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    11 Solomon brought up the daughter of Pharaoh out of the city of David to the house that he had built for her; for he said, "My wife shall not dwell in the house of David king of Israel, because the places where the ark of Yahweh has come are holy."

  • 1 Kgs 3:1
    75%

    1 Solomon made affinity with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and took Pharaoh's daughter, and brought her into the city of David, until he had made an end of building his own house, and the house of Yahweh, and the wall of Jerusalem all around.

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

  • 1 Kgs 7:8
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    8 His house where he was to dwell, the other court within the porch, was of the like work. He made also a house for Pharaoh's daughter (whom Solomon had taken as wife), like this porch.

  • 1 Kgs 3:16
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    16 Then two women who were prostitutes came to the king, and stood before him.

  • Mal 2:11
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    11 Judah has dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah has profaned the holiness of Yahweh which he loves, and has married the daughter of a foreign god.

  • 1 Kgs 3:3
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    3 Solomon loved Yahweh, walking in the statutes of David his father: only he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.

  • 2 Chr 11:21
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    21 Rehoboam loved Maacah the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and his concubines: (for he took eighteen wives, and sixty concubines, and became the father of twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters.)

  • Num 25:1
    70%

    1 Israel stayed in Shittim; and the people began to play the prostitute with the daughters of Moab:

  • Deut 17:17
    70%

    17 Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart not turn away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.

  • Exod 34:16
    69%

    16 and you take of their daughters to your sons, and their daughters play the prostitute after their gods, and make your sons play the prostitute after their gods.

  • Song 3:11
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    11 Go forth, you daughters of Zion, and see king Solomon, with the crown with which his mother has crowned him, in the day of his weddings, in the day of the gladness of his heart. Lover

  • 1 Kgs 9:16
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    16 Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up, and taken Gezer, and burnt it with fire, and slain the Canaanites who lived in the city, and given it for a portion to his daughter, Solomon's wife.

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

  • Song 1:1
    68%

    1 The Song of songs, which is Solomon's. Beloved

  • 1 Kgs 10:13
    68%

    13 King Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatever she asked, besides that which Solomon gave her of his royal bounty. So she turned, and went to her own land, she and her servants.

  • Song 3:9
    68%

    9 King Solomon made himself a carriage of the wood of Lebanon.

  • 2 Chr 8:17
    68%

    17 Then went Solomon to Ezion Geber, and to Eloth, on the seashore in the land of Edom.

  • 2 Chr 1:13-14
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    68%

    13 So Solomon came from the high place that was at Gibeon, from before the Tent of Meeting, to Jerusalem; and he reigned over Israel.

    14 Solomon gathered chariots and horsemen: and he had one thousand four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, that he placed in the chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem.

  • 2 Chr 21:11
    68%

    11 Moreover he made high places in the mountains of Judah, and made the inhabitants of Jerusalem to play the prostitute, and led Judah astray.

  • Deut 21:15
    67%

    15 If a man have two wives, the one beloved, and the other hated, and they have borne him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the firstborn son be hers who was hated;

  • Judg 3:6
    67%

    6 and they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their own daughters to their sons and served their gods.

  • 2 Kgs 23:13
    67%

    13 The high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mountain of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon, did the king defile.

  • Prov 5:20
    67%

    20 For why should you, my son, be captivated with an adulteress? Why embrace the bosom of another?

  • 2 Chr 9:1
    67%

    1 When the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, she came to prove Solomon with hard questions at Jerusalem, with a very great train, and camels that bore spices, and gold in abundance, and precious stones: and when she was come to Solomon, she talked with him of all that was in her heart.

  • 2 Sam 15:16
    67%

    16 The king went forth, and all his household after him. The king left ten women, who were concubines, to keep the house.

  • Neh 13:23
    67%

    23 In those days also saw I the Jews who had married women of Ashdod, of Ammon, [and] of Moab:

  • 1 Chr 14:3
    67%

    3 David took more wives at Jerusalem; and David became the father of more sons and daughters.

  • 2 Chr 11:23
    67%

    23 He dealt wisely, and dispersed of all his sons throughout all the lands of Judah and Benjamin, to every fortified city: and he gave them food in abundance. He sought [for them] many wives.

  • 2 Chr 1:16
    67%

    16 The horses which Solomon had were brought out of Egypt and from Kue; the king's merchants purchased them from Kue.

  • 1 Kgs 4:1
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    1 King Solomon was king over all Israel.

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

  • Ezra 9:1
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    1 Now when these things were done, the princes drew near to me, saying, "The people of Israel, and the priests and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands, [doing] according to their abominations, even 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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    8 There are sixty queens, eighty concubines, and virgins without number.

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

  • 1 Kgs 5:2
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    2 Solomon sent to Hiram, saying,

  • 1 Kgs 10:10
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    10 She gave the king one hundred twenty talents of gold, and of spices very great store, and precious stones. There came no more such abundance of spices as these which the queen of Sheba gave to king Solomon.