1 Kings 11:1

New American Bible - revised edition

King Solomon loved many foreign women besides the daughter of Pharaoh—Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, Hittites—

Cross References

Deuteronomy 17:17

Neither shall he have a great number of wives, lest his heart turn away, nor shall he accumulate a vast amount of silver and gold.

Proverbs 6:24

Keeping you from another’s wife, from the smooth tongue of the foreign woman.

Proverbs 7:5

That they may keep you from a stranger, from the foreign woman with her smooth words.

Proverbs 2:16

Saving you from a stranger, from a foreign woman with her smooth words,

1 Kings 11:8

He did the same for all his foreign wives who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods.

Proverbs 22:14

The mouth of the foreign woman is a deep pit; whoever incurs the Lord’s anger will fall into it.

1 Kings 3:1

Solomon allied himself by marriage with Pharaoh, king of Egypt. He married the daughter of Pharaoh and brought her to the City of David, until he should finish building his own house, and the house of the Lord, and the wall around Jerusalem.

Proverbs 23:33

Your eyes behold strange sights, and your heart utters incoherent things;

Leviticus 18:18

While your wife is still living you shall not marry her sister as her rival and have intercourse with her.

Exodus 34:16

And when you take their daughters as wives for your sons, and their daughters prostitute themselves with their gods, they will make your sons do the same.

1 Kings 16:31

It was not enough for him to follow the sins of Jeroboam, son of Nebat. He even married Jezebel, daughter of Ethbaal, king of the Sidonians, and began to serve Baal, and worship him.

Ezra 10:44

All these had taken foreign wives; but they sent them away, both the women and their children.

Proverbs 31:3

Do not give your vigor to women, or your strength to those who ruin kings.

1 Kings 14:21

Rehoboam, son of Solomon, became king in Judah. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city in which, out of all the tribes of Israel, the Lord chose to set his name. His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonite.

1 Kings 14:31

Rehoboam rested with his ancestors; he was buried with his ancestors in the City of David. His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonite. His son Abijam succeeded him as king.

Ezra 9:1

When these matters had been concluded, the leaders approached me with this report: “Neither the Israelite laymen nor the priests nor the Levites have kept themselves separate from the peoples of the lands and their abominations—Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Jebusites, Ammonites, Moabites, Egyptians, and Amorites—

Ezra 9:2

for they have taken some of their daughters as wives for themselves and their sons, thus intermingling the holy seed with the peoples of the lands. Furthermore, the leaders and rulers have taken a prominent part in this apostasy!” Ezra’s Reaction.