1 Kings 3:1

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Solomon made a peace treaty with Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, by marrying his daughter. Solomon brought her to the City of David. This was when Solomon was still building his palace, the Temple of the Lord, and the wall around Jerusalem.

Cross References

1 Kings 9:24

Pharaoh’s daughter moved from the City of David to the palace that Solomon had built for her. Then he built the Millo.

1 Kings 11:1

King Solomon loved many foreign women, including the daughter of Pharaoh and women from Moab, Ammon, Edom, Sidon, and the Hittites.

2 Chronicles 8:11

Solomon brought Pharaoh’s daughter up from the City of David to the house he built for her. He said, “My wife must not live in King David’s palace because the places where the Lord’s Holy Box has been are holy places.”

1 Kings 6:1

So in the month of Ziv, the second month of the year, during Solomon’s fourth year as king, he began work on the Temple. This was 480 years after the Israelites left Egypt.

2 Samuel 5:7

But David did take the fort of Zion. This fort became the City of David.)

Ezra 5:11

This is the answer they gave us: “We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth. We are rebuilding the Temple that a great king of Israel built and finished many years ago.

2 Chronicles 18:1

Jehoshaphat became very rich and famous. He made an agreement with King Ahab through marriage.

1 Chronicles 11:7

Then David made his home in the fortress. That is why it is named the City of David.

Ezra 9:14

So we know that we must not break your commands. We must not marry those people. They do very bad things. God, if we continue to marry these bad people, we know you will destroy us. Then there would be no one from the Israelites left alive.

1 Kings 2:10

Then David died and was buried in the City of David.

1 Kings 7:1

King Solomon also built a palace for himself. It took 13 years to build Solomon’s palace.

1 Kings 7:8

Behind the Judgment Hall was a courtyard. The palace where Solomon lived was built around that courtyard and looked like the Judgment Hall. He also built the same kind of palace for his wife, the daughter of the king of Egypt.

1 Kings 9:10

It took 20 years for King Solomon to build the Lord’s Temple and the king’s palace.

Deuteronomy 23:8

The children of the third generation born to the Edomites and Egyptians may join with the people of Israel to worship the Lord.

1 Kings 9:1

So Solomon finished building the Lord’s Temple and his own palace. Solomon built everything that he wanted to build.