1 Kings 11:3 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

³ And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines: and his wives turned away his heart.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines: and his wives turned away his heart.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ He had 700 wives, princesses, and 300 concubines, and his wives turned away his heart from God.

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

³ He had seven hundred royal wives and three hundred secondary wives. They turned his heart.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ And for him, there were seven hundred wives, as if they were queens, and three hundred concubines. And the women turned aside his heart.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³ And he had seven hundred wives as queens, and three hundred concubines. And the women turned away his heart.

1 Kings 11:3 Cross References

2 Chronicles 11:21

And Rehoboam loved Maacah the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and his concubines: (for he took eighteen wives, and threescore concubines, and begat twenty and eight sons and threescore daughters.)

Esther 1:18

And this day shall the princesses of Persia and Media which have heard of the deed of the queen say the like unto all the king's princes, So shall there arise much contempt and wrath.

Ecclesiastes 2:8

I gathered me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings and of the provinces: I gat me men singers and women singers, and the delights of the sons of men, concubines very many.

Ecclesiastes 7:28

which my soul still seeketh, but I have not found: one man among a thousand have I found; but a woman among all those have I not found.

Song of Solomon 6:8

There are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines, And virgins without number.

Song of Solomon 6:9

My dove, my undefiled, is but one; She is the only one of her mother; She is the choice one of her that bare her. The daughters saw her, and called her blessed; Yea, the queens and the concubines, and they praised her.

Deuteronomy 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.

Judges 3:6

and they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their own daughters to their sons, and served their gods.

Judges 9:5

And he went unto his father's house at Ophrah, and slew his brethren the sons of Jerubbaal, being threescore and ten persons, upon one stone: but Jotham the youngest son of Jerubbaal was left; for he hid himself.