1 Kings 11:4

Modern English Version

For when Solomon was old, his wives turned his heart away after other gods, and his heart was not perfect with the Lord his God as the heart of David his father had been.

Cross References

1 Kings 11:2

from the nations which the Lord warned the Israelites about, saying, “You shall not go in to them, nor shall they come in to you, for they will surely turn your heart away toward their gods.” Solomon clung to these in love.

1 Kings 11:33

because they have forsaken Me and have worshipped Ashtoreth, the goddess of the Sidonians, and Chemosh, the god of the Moabites, and Molech, the god of the Ammonites and have not walked in My ways and have not done that which is right in My eyes, to keep My statutes and judgments, as his father David had done.

1 Kings 11:38

It shall be, if you will listen to all that I command you and will walk in My ways and do what is right in My sight to keep My statutes and My commandments, as David My servant did, I will be with you and build you a sure house, as I built for David, and will give Israel to you.

1 Kings 11:42

And the time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel was forty years.

1 Kings 11:6

Solomon did what was evil in the sight of the Lord and did not fully follow the Lord as his father David had done.

1 Kings 11:9

The Lord was angry with Solomon because he turned his heart away from the Lord God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice,

1 Kings 14:21

Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the Lord had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel to put His name there. And his mother’s name was Naamah, an Ammonitess.

1 Kings 15:14

But the high places were not all removed, even though Asa’s heart was wholly devoted to the Lord all his days.

1 Kings 15:3

He walked in all the sins of his father that he had done before him, and his heart was not wholly devoted to the Lord his God as the heart of his father David had been.

1 Kings 3:3

Solomon loved the Lord, walking in the statutes of his father David, though he sacrificed and burned incense at the high places.

1 Kings 6:1

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

1 Kings 8:61

Let your hearts, therefore, be perfect with the Lord our God, to walk in His statutes and keep His commandments, as at this day.”

1 Kings 9:10

When twenty years had passed since Solomon had built the two houses, the house of the Lord and the king’s house

1 Kings 9:4

“If you will walk before Me, as your father David walked, in integrity of heart and uprightness, so that you are obedient to do all that I have commanded you, and will keep My statutes and My judgments,

2 Kings 20:3

“Please, O  Lord, remember how I have walked before You faithfully and with an undivided heart and have done what is good in Your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.

1 Chronicles 28:9

As for you, Solomon my son, know the God of your fathers and serve Him with a whole heart and with a willing spirit, for the Lord searches every heart and understands the intent of every thought. If you seek Him, He will be found by you, but if you forsake Him, He will abandon you forever.

1 Chronicles 29:19

Grant to Solomon my son a whole heart to keep Your commandments, Your testimonies, and Your statutes, to do all these things and to build the palace for which I have made preparation.”

2 Chronicles 17:3

Now the Lord was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked according to the previous ways of his father David; he did not seek out the Baals,

2 Chronicles 25:2

He did what was correct in the eyes of the Lord, only not with a complete heart.

2 Chronicles 34:2

And he did what was correct in the eyes of the Lord, and he walked in the ways of David his father and did not turn either to the right or left.

Exodus 20:3

You shall have no other gods before Me.

Deuteronomy 17:17

He shall not acquire many wives for himself, lest his heart turn away; nor shall he acquire for himself excess silver and gold.

Deuteronomy 7:4

For they will turn your sons away from following Me to serve other gods. Then the anger of the Lord will be inflamed against you, and He will quickly destroy you.