Verse 1

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

Referenced Verses

  • 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 Did not 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 even him did foreign women cause 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 round about.
  • 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 to men's daughters. They bore children to them: the same 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.