1 Kings 3:1

Bible in Basic English 1965

Solomon became the son-in-law of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and took Pharaoh's daughter as his wife, keeping her in the town of David, till the house he was building for himself, and the house of the Lord and the wall round Jerusalem, were complete.

Cross References

2 Samuel 5:7

But David took the strong place of Zion, which is the town of David.

1 Kings 11:1

Now a number of strange women were loved by Solomon, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites:

1 Kings 2:10

Then David went to rest with his fathers, and his body was put into the earth in the town of David.

1 Kings 6:1

In the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel came out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year that Solomon was king of Israel, in the month Ziv, which is the second month, the building of the Lord's house was started.

1 Kings 7:1

Solomon was thirteen years building a house for himself till it was complete.

1 Kings 7:8

And the house for his living-place, the other open square in the covered room, was made in the same way. And then he made a house like it for Pharaoh's daughter, whom Solomon had taken as his wife.

1 Kings 9:1

Now when Solomon came to the end of building the house of the Lord and the king's house, and all Solomon's desires, which he had in mind were effected;

1 Kings 9:10

Now at the end of twenty years, in which time Solomon had put up the two houses, the house of the Lord and the king's house,

1 Kings 9:24

At that time Solomon made Pharaoh's daughter come up from the town of David to the house which he had made for her: then he made the Millo.

1 Chronicles 11:7

And David took the strong tower for his living-place, so it was named the town of David.

2 Chronicles 18:1

Now Jehoshaphat had great wealth and honour, and his son was married to Ahab's daughter.

2 Chronicles 8:11

Then Solomon made Pharaoh's daughter come up from the town of David to the house which he had made for her; for he said, I will not have my wife living in the house of David, king of Israel, because those places where the ark of the Lord has come are holy.

Ezra 5:11

And they made answer to us, saying, We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth, and we are building the house which was put up in times long past and was designed and made complete by a great king of Israel.

Ezra 9:14

Are we again to go against your orders, taking wives from among the people who do these disgusting things? would you not be angry with us till our destruction was complete, till there was not one who got away safe?

Deuteronomy 23:8

Their children in the third generation may come into the meeting of the Lord's people.