Deuteronomy 17:17

New Century Version

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.

Cross References

Genesis 2:24

So a man will leave his father and mother and be united with his wife, and the two will become one body.

2 Samuel 12:11

“This is what the Lord says: ‘I am bringing trouble to you from your own family. While you watch, I will take your wives from you and give them to someone who is very close to you. He will have sexual relations with your wives, and everyone will know it.

2 Samuel 5:13

After he came from Hebron, David took for himself more slave women and wives in Jerusalem. More sons and daughters were born to David.

1 Kings 10:21

All of Solomon’s drinking cups, as well as the dishes in the Palace of the Forest of Lebanon, were made of pure gold. Nothing was made from silver, because silver was not valuable in Solomon’s time.

1 Kings 10:27

In Jerusalem Solomon made silver as common as stones and cedar trees as common as the fig trees on the western hills.

1 Chronicles 14:3

David married more women in Jerusalem and had more sons and daughters.

2 Chronicles 1:15

In Jerusalem Solomon made silver and gold as plentiful as stones and cedar trees as plentiful as the fig trees on the western hills.

2 Chronicles 11:21

Rehoboam loved Maacah more than his other wives and slave women. Rehoboam had eighteen wives and sixty slave women and was the father of twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters.

Nehemiah 13:26

Foreign women made King Solomon of Israel sin. There was never a king like him in any of the nations. God loved Solomon and made him king over all Israel, but foreign women made him sin.

Psalm 62:10

Do not trust in force. Stealing is of no use. Even if you gain more riches, don’t put your trust in them.

Proverbs 31:3

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

Malachi 2:15

God made husbands and wives to become one body and one spirit for his purpose—so they would have children who are true to God. So be careful, and do not break your promise to the wife you married when you were young.

Matthew 13:22

And what is the seed that fell among the thorny weeds? That seed is like the person who hears the teaching but lets worries about this life and the temptation of wealth stop that teaching from growing. So the teaching does not produce fruit in that person’s life.

Matthew 19:5

And God said, ‘So a man will leave his father and mother and be united with his wife, and the two will become one body.’

Luke 12:15

Then Jesus said to them, “Be careful and guard against all kinds of greed. Life is not measured by how much one owns.”

1 Timothy 6:17

Command those who are rich with things of this world not to be proud. Tell them to hope in God, not in their uncertain riches. God richly gives us everything to enjoy.

1 Timothy 6:9

Those who want to become rich bring temptation to themselves and are caught in a trap. They want many foolish and harmful things that ruin and destroy people.