1 Kings 11:1
But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites;
KJV
Rex autem Salomon adamavit mulieres alienigenas multas, filiam quoque Pharaonis, et Moabitidas, et Ammonitidas, Idumæas, et Sidonias, et Hethæas :
Vulgate
Καὶ ὁ βασιλεὺς Σαλωμὼν ἦν φιλογύνης. καὶ ἦσαν αὐτῷ ἄρχουσαι ἑπτακόσιαι καὶ παλλακαὶ τριακόσιαι. καὶ ἔλαβεν γυναῖκας ἀλλοτρίας, καὶ τὴν θυγατέρα Φαραώ· Μωαβείτιδας, Ἀμμανίτιδας, Σύρας καὶ Ἰδουμαίας, Χετταίας καὶ Ἀμορραίας·
LXX
Now king Solomon loved many foreign women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites;
ASV
וְ/הַ/מֶּ֣לֶךְ שְׁלֹמֹ֗ה אָהַ֞ב נָשִׁ֧ים נָכְרִיּ֛וֹת רַבּ֖וֹת וְ/אֶת בַּת פַּרְעֹ֑ה מוֹאֲבִיּ֤וֹת עַמֳּנִיּוֹת֙ אֲדֹ֣מִיֹּ֔ת צֵדְנִיֹּ֖ת חִתִּיֹּֽת
Hebrew
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14 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
Historic Christian voices
6 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
The sins of the men of old time, which incurred the displeasure of God, were, by His providence, committed to writing, that we might derive instruction thereby, and not be filled with pride. We must not, therefore, infer that there was another God than He whom Christ preached; we should rather fear, lest the one and the same God who inflicted punishment on the ancients, should …
Covers Solomon's accession, the building of the First Temple, the visit of the Queen of Sheba, Solomon's apostasy, the division of the kingdom under Rehoboam and Jeroboam, and the early kings of Israel and Judah through Ahab and Elijah. Josephus's description of Solomon's Temple supplements the biblical account with Hellenistic architectural parallels.
Cross-references
- 1Kgs 3:1 — And 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 the LORD
- 1Kgs 3:1 — And 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 the LORD
- 1Kgs 11:8 — And likewise did he for all his strange wives, which burnt incense and sacrificed unto their gods.
- 2Chr 12:13 — So king Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem, and reigned: for Rehoboam was one and forty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD h
- 2Sam 13:1 — And it came to pass after this, that Absalom the son of David had a fair sister, whose name was Tamar; and Amnon the son of David loved her.
- Deut 17:17 — Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.
- Deut 17:17 — Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.
- Eccl 7:28 — Which yet my soul seeketh, but I find not: one man among a thousand have I found; but a woman among all those have I not found.
- Isa 2:6 — Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they be replenished from the east, and are soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves in the children of strangers
- Judg 2:3 — Wherefore I also said, I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be as thorns in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare unto you.
- Judg 3:6 — And they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their daughters to their sons, and served their gods.
- Mal 2:11 — Judah hath dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah hath profaned the holiness of the LORD which he loved, and hath married the daughter of a strange
- Neh 13:23 — In those days also saw I Jews that had married wives of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab:
- Neh 13:26 — Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? yet among many nations was there no king like him, who was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel: nevertheless even him did outl
- Num 25:2 — And they called the people unto the sacrifices of their gods: and the people did eat, and bowed down to their gods.
- Prov 2:16 — To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;
- Prov 5:8 — Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:
- Prov 6:24 — To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.
- Prov 7:5 — That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.
- Prov 22:14 — The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein.
- Prov 31:3 — Give not thy strength unto women, nor thy ways to that which destroyeth kings.
- Song 6:8 — There are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines, and virgins without number.