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1 Kings 11:3

TemptationMarriageFaithfulness and loyalty

1 King Solomon, however, loved many foreign women along with the daughter of Pharaoh—women of Moab, Ammon, Edom, and Sidon, as well as Hittite women.

2 These women were from the nations about which the LORD had told the Israelites, “You must not intermarry with them, for surely they will turn your hearts after their gods.” Yet Solomon clung to these women in love.

He had seven hundred wives of royal birth and three hundred concubines—and his wives turned his heart away.

4 For when Solomon grew old, his wives turned his heart after other gods, and he was not wholeheartedly devoted to the LORD his God, as his father David had been.

5 Solomon followed Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians and Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.

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BSB
He had seven hundred wives of royal birth and three hundred concubines—and his wives turned his heart away.
KJV
And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines: and his wives turned away his heart.
WEB
He had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines. His wives turned his heart away.
ASV
And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines; and his wives turned away his heart.
DARBY
And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines; and his wives turned away his heart.
BLB
And there were unto him seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines. And his wives stretched away his heart.
ÅB
Han hadde syv hundre hustruer av fyrstelig rang og tre hundre medhustruer; disse hans hustruer bøyde hans sinn.
OTB
Han hadde syv hundre hustruer av kongelig byrd, og tre hundre medhustruer, og hans hustruer påvirket hans hjerte.
B1930
Han hadde syv hundre hustruer av fyrstelig rang og tre hundre medhustruer; disse hans hustruer bøide hans sinn.

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Cross references

  • 2 Samuel 5:13–16

    After he had arrived from Hebron, David took more concubines and wives from Jerusalem, and more sons and daughters were born to him.

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  • Ecclesiastes 7:28

    While my soul was still searching but not finding, among a thousand I have found one upright man, but among all these I have not found one such woman.

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  • Judges 9:5

    He went to his father’s house in Ophrah, and on one stone murdered his seventy brothers, the sons of Jerubbaal. But Jotham, the youngest son of Jerubbaal, survived, because he hid himself.

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  • 2 Chronicles 11:21

    Rehoboam loved Maacah daughter of Absalom more than all his wives and concubines. In all, he had eighteen wives and sixty concubines, and he was the father of twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters.

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  • 2 Samuel 3:2–5

    And sons were born to David in Hebron: His firstborn was Amnon, by Ahinoam of Jezreel;

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  • Judges 8:30–31

    Gideon had seventy sons of his own, since he had many wives.

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