1 Kings 11:1

Good News Translation (US Version)

Solomon loved many foreign women. Besides the daughter of the king of Egypt he married Hittite women and women from Moab, Ammon, Edom, and Sidon.

Cross References

Deuteronomy 17:17

The king is not to have many wives, because this would make him turn away from the Lord; and he is not to make himself rich with silver and gold.

Proverbs 6:24

It can keep you away from bad women, from the seductive words of other men's wives.

Proverbs 7:5

They will keep you away from other men's wives, from women with seductive words.

Proverbs 2:16

You will be able to resist any immoral woman who tries to seduce you with her smooth talk,

1 Kings 11:8

He also built places of worship where all his foreign wives could burn incense and offer sacrifices to their own gods.

Proverbs 22:14

Adultery is a trap—it catches those with whom the Lord is angry.

1 Kings 3:1

Solomon made an alliance with the king of Egypt by marrying his daughter. He brought her to live in David's City until he had finished building his palace, the Temple, and the wall around Jerusalem.

Proverbs 23:33

Weird sights will appear before your eyes, and you will not be able to think or speak clearly.

Leviticus 18:18

Do not take your wife's sister as one of your wives, as long as your wife is living.

Exodus 34:16

Your sons might marry those foreign women, who would lead them to be unfaithful to me and to worship their pagan gods.

1 Kings 16:31

It was not enough for him to sin like King Jeroboam; he went further and married Jezebel, the daughter of King Ethbaal of Sidon, and worshiped Baal.

Ezra 10:44

All these men had foreign wives. They divorced them and sent them and their children away.

Proverbs 31:3

Don't spend all your energy on sex and all your money on women; they have destroyed kings.

1 Kings 14:21

Solomon's son Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he became king of Judah, and he ruled seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the Lord had chosen from all the territory of Israel as the place where he was to be worshiped. Rehoboam's mother was Naamah from Ammon.

1 Kings 14:31

Rehoboam died and was buried in the royal tombs in David's City and his son Abijah succeeded him as king.

Ezra 9:1

After all this had been done, some of the leaders of the people of Israel came and told me that the people, the priests, and the Levites had not kept themselves separate from the people in the neighboring countries of Ammon, Moab, and Egypt or from the Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Jebusites, and Amorites. They were doing the same disgusting things which these people did.

Ezra 9:2

Jewish men were marrying foreign women, and so God's holy people had become contaminated. The leaders and officials were the chief offenders.