1 Kings 11:1

New Century Version

King Solomon loved many women who were not from Israel. He loved the daughter of the king of Egypt, as well as women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites.

Cross References

1 Kings 11:8

Solomon did the same thing for all his foreign wives so they could burn incense and offer sacrifices to their gods.

1 Kings 14:21

Solomon’s son Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he became king of Judah. His mother was Naamah from Ammon. Rehoboam ruled in Jerusalem for seventeen years. (The Lord had chosen that city from all the land of Israel as the place where he would be worshiped.)

1 Kings 14:31

Rehoboam, son of Naamah from Ammon, died and was buried with his ancestors in Jerusalem, and his son Abijam became king in his place.

1 Kings 16:31

He sinned in the same ways as Jeroboam son of Nebat, but he did even worse things. He married Jezebel daughter of Ethbaal, the king of Sidon. Then Ahab began to serve Baal and worship him.

1 Kings 3:1

Solomon made an agreement with the king of Egypt by marrying his daughter and bringing her to Jerusalem. At this time Solomon was still building his palace and the Temple of the Lord, as well as a wall around Jerusalem.

Ezra 10:44

All these men had married non-Jewish women, and some of them had children by these wives.

Ezra 9:1

After these things had been done, the leaders came to me and said, “Ezra, the Israelites, including the priests and Levites, have not kept themselves separate from the people around us. Those neighbors do evil things, as the Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Jebusites, Ammonites, Moabites, Egyptians, and Amorites did.

Ezra 9:2

The Israelite men and their sons have married these women. They have mixed the people who belong to God with the people around them. The leaders and officers of Israel have led the rest of the Israelites to do this unfaithful thing.”

Exodus 34:16

If you choose some of their daughters as wives for your sons and those daughters worship gods, they will lead your sons to do the same thing.

Proverbs 2:16

It will save you from the unfaithful wife who tries to lead you into adultery with pleasing words.

Proverbs 22:14

The words of an unfaithful wife are like a deep trap. Those who make the Lord angry will get caught by them.

Proverbs 23:33

Your eyes will see strange sights, and your mind will be confused.

Proverbs 31:3

Don’t waste your strength on women or your time on those who ruin kings.

Proverbs 6:24

They will keep you from sinful women and from the pleasing words of another man’s unfaithful wife.

Proverbs 7:5

Wisdom and understanding will keep you away from adultery, away from the unfaithful wife and her pleasing words.

Leviticus 18:18

“ ‘While your wife is still living, you must not take her sister as another wife. Do not have sexual relations with her.

Deuteronomy 17:17

The king must not have many wives, or his heart will be led away from God. He must not have too much silver and gold.