1 Kings 11:1

New English Translation

King Solomon fell in love with many foreign women (besides Pharaoh’s daughter), including Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites.

Cross References

1 Kings 11:8

He built high places for all his foreign wives so they could burn incense and make sacrifices to their gods.

1 Kings 14:21

Now Rehoboam son of Solomon ruled in Judah. He was forty-one years old when he became king and he ruled for seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city the Lord chose from all the tribes of Israel to be his home. His mother was an Ammonite woman named Naamah.

1 Kings 14:31

Rehoboam passed away and was buried with his ancestors in the city of David. His mother was an Ammonite named Naamah. His son Abijah replaced him as king.

1 Kings 16:31

As if following in the sinful footsteps of Jeroboam son of Nebat were not bad enough, he married Jezebel the daughter of King Ethbaal of the Sidonians. Then he worshiped and bowed to Baal.

1 Kings 3:1

Solomon made an alliance by marriage with Pharaoh, king of Egypt; he married Pharaoh’s daughter. He brought her to the City of David until he could finish building his residence and the temple of the Lord and the wall around Jerusalem.

Ezra 10:44

All these had taken foreign wives, and some of them also had children by these women.

Ezra 9:1

Now when these things had been completed, the leaders approached me and said, “The people of Israel, the priests, and the Levites have not separated themselves from the local residents who practice detestable things similar to those of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.

Ezra 9:2

Indeed, they have taken some of their daughters as wives for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy race has become intermingled with the local residents. Worse still, the leaders and the officials have been at the forefront of all of this!”

Exodus 34:16

and you then take his daughters for your sons, and when his daughters prostitute themselves to their gods, they will make your sons prostitute themselves to their gods as well.

Proverbs 2:16

to deliver you from the adulteress, from the sexually loose woman who speaks flattering words;

Proverbs 22:14

The mouth of an adulteress is like a deep pit; the one against whom the Lord is angry will fall into it.

Proverbs 23:33

Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind will speak perverse things.

Proverbs 31:3

Do not give your strength to women, nor your ways to that which ruins kings.

Proverbs 6:24

by keeping you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the loose woman.

Proverbs 7:5

so that they may keep you from the adulterous woman, from the loose woman who flatters you with her words.

Leviticus 18:18

You must not take a woman in marriage and then marry her sister as a rival wife while she is still alive, to have sexual intercourse with her.

Deuteronomy 17:17

Furthermore, he must not marry many wives lest his affections turn aside, and he must not accumulate much silver and gold.