Deuteronomy 17:17

New English Translation

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

Cross References

Genesis 2:24

That is why a man leaves his father and mother and unites with his wife, and they become a new family.

2 Samuel 12:11

This is what the Lord says: ‘I am about to bring disaster on you from inside your own household! Right before your eyes I will take your wives and hand them over to your companion. He will have sexual relations with your wives in broad daylight!

2 Samuel 5:13

David married more concubines and wives from Jerusalem after he arrived from Hebron. Even more sons and daughters were born to David.

1 Kings 10:21

All of King Solomon’s cups were made of gold, and all the household items in the Palace of the Lebanon Forest were made of pure gold. There were no silver items, for silver was not considered very valuable in Solomon’s time.

1 Kings 10:27

The king made silver as plentiful in Jerusalem as stones; cedar was as plentiful as sycamore fig trees are in the lowlands.

1 Chronicles 14:3

In Jerusalem David married more wives and fathered more sons and daughters.

2 Chronicles 1:15

The king made silver and gold as plentiful in Jerusalem as stones; cedar was as plentiful as sycamore fig trees are in the lowlands.

2 Chronicles 11:21

Rehoboam loved Maacah daughter of Absalom more than his other wives and concubines. He had eighteen wives and sixty concubines; he fathered twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters.

Nehemiah 13:26

Was it not because of things like these that King Solomon of Israel sinned? Among the many nations there was no king like him. He was loved by his God, and God made him king over all Israel. But the foreign wives made even him sin!

Psalm 62:10

Do not trust in what you can gain by oppression! Do not put false confidence in what you can gain by robbery! If wealth increases, do not become attached to it!

Proverbs 31:3

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

Malachi 2:15

No one who has even a small portion of the Spirit in him does this. What did our ancestor do when seeking a child from God? Be attentive, then, to your own spirit, for one should not be disloyal to the wife he took in his youth.

Matthew 13:22

The seed sown among thorns is the person who hears the word, but worldly cares and the seductiveness of wealth choke the word, so it produces nothing.

Matthew 19:5

and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and will be united with his wife, and the two will become one flesh’?

Luke 12:15

Then he said to them, “Watch out and guard yourself from all types of greed, because one’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.”

1 Timothy 6:17

Command those who are rich in this world’s goods not to be haughty or to set their hope on riches, which are uncertain, but on God who richly provides us with all things for our enjoyment.

1 Timothy 6:9

Those who long to be rich, however, stumble into temptation and a trap and many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction.