1 Kings 3:1 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹ Solomon made a marriage alliance with Pharaoh king of Egypt; he took Pharaoh's daughter, and brought her into the city of David, until he had finished building his own house and the house of the Lord and the wall around Jerusalem.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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, and the wall of Jerusalem round about.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹ AND SOLOMON made an alliance with Pharaoh king of Egypt and took Pharaoh's daughter and brought her into the City of David until he had finished building his own house and the house of the Lord, and the wall around Jerusalem.

American Standard Version (1901)

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 Jehovah, and the wall of Jerusalem round about.

Common English Bible

¹ Solomon became the son-in-law of Pharaoh, Egypt’s king, when he married Pharaoh’s daughter. He brought her to David’s City until he finished building his royal palace, the LORD’s temple, and the wall around Jerusalem.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹ And so the kingdom was confirmed in the hand of Solomon, and he was joined with Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, by affinity. For he took his daughter, and he led her into the city of David, until he completed building his own house, and the house of the Lord, and the wall of Jerusalem all around.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹ And the kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon, and he made affinity with Pharao the king of Egypt: for he took his 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, and the wall of Jerusalem round about.

1 Kings 3:1 Cross References

2 Samuel 5:7

Nevertheless David took the stronghold of Zion, that is, the city of David.

1 Kings 11:1

Now King Solomon loved many foreign women: the daughter of Pharaoh, and Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, and Hittite women,

1 Kings 2:10

Then David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David.

1 Kings 6:1

In the four hundred and eightieth year after the people of Israel came out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month of Ziv, which is the second month, he began to build the house of the Lord.

1 Kings 7:1

Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished his entire house.

1 Kings 7:8

His own house where he was to dwell, in the other court back of the hall, was of like workmanship. Solomon also made a house like this hall for Pharaoh's daughter whom he had taken in marriage.

1 Kings 9:1

When Solomon had finished building the house of the Lord and the king's house and all that Solomon desired to build,

1 Kings 9:10

At the end of twenty years, in which Solomon had built the two houses, the house of the Lord and the king's house,

1 Kings 9:24

But Pharaoh's daughter went up from the city of David to her own house which Solomon had built for her; then he built the Millo.

1 Chronicles 11:7

And David dwelt in the stronghold; therefore it was called the city of David.

2 Chronicles 18:1

Now Jehoshaphat had great riches and honor; and he made a marriage alliance with Ahab.

2 Chronicles 8:11

Solomon brought Pharaoh's daughter up from the city of David to the house which he had built for her, for he said, “My wife shall not live in the house of David king of Israel, for the places to which the ark of the Lord has come are holy.”

Ezra 5:11

And this was their reply to us: ‘We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth, and we are rebuilding the house that was built many years ago, which a great king of Israel built and finished.

Ezra 9:14

shall we break thy commandments again and intermarry with the peoples who practice these abominations? Wouldst thou not be angry with us till thou wouldst consume us, so that there should be no remnant, nor any to escape?

Deuteronomy 23:8

The children of the third generation that are born to them may enter the assembly of the Lord.