Nehemiah 13:26

World English Bible (2000)

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.

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  • 1 Kgs 3:13 : 13 I have also given you that which you have not asked, both riches and honor, so that there shall not be any among the kings like you, all your days.
  • 2 Chr 1:12 : 12 wisdom and knowledge is granted to you. I will give you riches, wealth, and honor, such as none of the kings have had who have been before you; neither shall there any after you have the like."
  • 2 Sam 12:24-25 : 24 David comforted Bathsheba his wife, and went in to her, and lay with her. She bore a son, and he called his name Solomon. Yahweh loved him; 25 and he sent by the hand of Nathan the prophet; and he named him Jedidiah, for Yahweh's sake.
  • 1 Kgs 11:1-8 : 1 Now king Solomon loved many foreign women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites; 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.
  • 2 Chr 9:22 : 22 So king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth in riches and wisdom.
  • Eccl 7:26 : 26 I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and traps, whose hands are chains. Whoever pleases God shall escape from her; but the sinner will be ensnared by her.

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  • 1 Kgs 11:1-11
    11 verses
    83%

    1Now king Solomon loved many foreign women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites;

    2of 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.

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

    4For 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.

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

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

    7Then 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.

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

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

    10and had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not go after other gods: but he didn't keep that which Yahweh commanded.

    11Therefore 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 13:27
    76%

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

  • Neh 13:25
    73%

    25I 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.

  • 1 Kgs 3:16
    70%

    16Then two women who were prostitutes came to the king, and stood before him.

  • Ezra 10:44
    70%

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

  • 2 Chr 8:11
    70%

    11Solomon 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."

  • Mal 2:11
    69%

    11Judah 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 Chr 29:25
    69%

    25Yahweh magnified Solomon exceedingly in the sight of all Israel, and bestowed on him such royal majesty as had not been on any king before him in Israel.

  • 2 Chr 1:12-13
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    69%

    12wisdom and knowledge is granted to you. I will give you riches, wealth, and honor, such as none of the kings have had who have been before you; neither shall there any after you have the like."

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

  • 2 Chr 21:13
    68%

    13but have walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and have made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to play the prostitute, like the house of Ahab did, and also have slain your brothers of your father's house, who were better than yourself:

  • Deut 17:17
    68%

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

  • 2 Chr 9:12
    68%

    12King 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.

  • 1 Kgs 10:13
    68%

    13King 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.

  • 1 Kgs 10:9
    68%

    9Blessed is Yahweh your God, who delighted in you, to set you on the throne of Israel. Because Yahweh loved Israel forever, therefore made he you king, to do justice and righteousness."

  • 2 Kgs 23:13
    67%

    13The 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.

  • 2 Chr 9:8-9
    2 verses
    67%

    8Blessed be Yahweh your God, who delighted in you, to set you on his throne, to be king for Yahweh your God: because your God loved Israel, to establish them forever, therefore made he you king over them, to do justice and righteousness."

    9She gave the king one hundred and twenty talents of gold, and spices in great abundance, and precious stones: neither was there any such spice as the queen of Sheba gave to king Solomon.

  • Jer 44:9
    67%

    9Have you forgotten the wickedness of your fathers, and the wickedness of the kings of Judah, and the wickedness of their wives, and your own wickedness, and the wickedness of your wives which they committed in the land of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem?

  • 1 Kgs 3:1
    67%

    1Solomon 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.

  • 2 Sam 14:13
    67%

    13The woman said, "Why then have you devised such a thing against the people of God? For in speaking this word the king is as one who is guilty, in that the king does not bring home again his banished one.

  • 1 Kgs 4:1
    67%

    1King Solomon was king over all Israel.

  • 2 Chr 9:22
    67%

    22So king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth in riches and wisdom.

  • Neh 13:23
    67%

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

  • Song 3:11
    67%

    11Go 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 10:3
    67%

    3Solomon told her all her questions: there was not anything hidden from the king which he didn't tell her.

  • 1 Kgs 21:26
    67%

    26He did very abominably in following idols, according to all that the Amorites did, whom Yahweh cast out before the children of Israel.

  • 2 Chr 1:2
    67%

    2Solomon spoke to all Israel, to the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and to the judges, and to every prince in all Israel, the heads of the fathers' [houses].

  • 1 Kgs 7:8
    67%

    8His 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 10:23
    66%

    23So king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth in riches and in wisdom.

  • 2 Sam 12:11
    66%

    11"This is what Yahweh says: 'Behold, I will raise up evil against you out of your own house; and I will take your wives before your eyes, and give them to your neighbor, and he will lie with your wives in the sight of this sun.

  • Exod 34:16
    66%

    16and 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.

  • 2 Chr 9:1-2
    2 verses
    66%

    1When 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.

    2Solomon told her all her questions; and there was not anything hidden from Solomon which he didn't tell her.

  • 2 Chr 21:11
    66%

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

  • 2 Chr 8:9
    66%

    9But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no servants for his work; but they were men of war, and chief of his captains, and rulers of his chariots and of his horsemen.

  • 1 Kgs 3:3
    66%

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

  • Ezra 10:14
    66%

    14Let now our princes be appointed for all the assembly, and let all those who are in our cities who have married foreign women come at appointed times, and with them the elders of every city, and its judges, until the fierce wrath of our God be turned from us, until this matter is resolved."

  • 2 Chr 30:26
    66%

    26So there was great joy in Jerusalem; for since the time of Solomon the son of David king of Israel there was not the like in Jerusalem.

  • 2 Kgs 3:3
    66%

    3Nevertheless he held to the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, with which he made Israel to sin; he didn't depart from it.