1 Kings 11:1

New International Reader's Version

King Solomon loved many women besides Pharaoh’s daughter. They were from other lands. They were Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians and Hittites.

Cross References

1 Kings 11:8

Solomon also built high places so that all his wives from other nations could worship their gods. Those women burned incense and offered sacrifices to their gods.

1 Kings 14:21

Rehoboam was king in Judah. He was the son of Solomon. Rehoboam was 41 years old when he became king. He ruled for 17 years in Jerusalem. It was the city the Lord had chosen out of all the cities in the tribes of Israel. He wanted to put his Name there. Rehoboam’s mother was Naamah from Ammon.

1 Kings 14:31

Rehoboam joined the members of his family who had already died. He was buried in his family tomb in the City of David. His mother was Naamah from Ammon. Rehoboam’s son Abijah became the next king after him.

1 Kings 16:31

He thought it was only a small thing to commit the sins Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, had committed. Ahab also married Jezebel. She was Ethbaal’s daughter. Ethbaal was king of the people of Sidon. Ahab began to serve the god named Baal and worship him.

1 Kings 3:1

Solomon and Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, agreed to help each other. So Solomon married Pharaoh’s daughter. He brought her to the City of David. She stayed there until he finished building his palace, the Lord’s temple, and the wall around Jerusalem.

Ezra 10:44

All these men had married women from other lands. Some of them had even had children by those wives.

Ezra 9:1

After all these things had been done, the leaders came to me. They said, “The people of Israel have committed sins. Even the priests and Levites have sinned. They haven’t kept themselves separate from the nations around them. The Lord hates the practices of those nations. He hates what the Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites and Jebusites do. He also hates what the Ammonites, Moabites, Egyptians and Amorites do.

Ezra 9:2

The men of Israel have married the daughters of some of those people. They’ve also taken some of those women for their sons to marry. So they’ve mixed our holy nation with the nations around us. We leaders and officials have also married women who don’t worship the Lord. By doing this, we have led the way in breaking our covenant with the Lord.”

Exodus 34:16

You will choose some of their daughters as wives for your sons. And those daughters will commit sin by worshiping their gods. Then they will lead your sons to do the same thing.

Proverbs 2:16

Wisdom will save you from a woman who commits adultery. It will save you from a sinful woman and her tempting words.

Proverbs 22:14

The mouth of a woman who commits adultery is like a deep pit. Any man the Lord is angry with falls into it.

Proverbs 23:33

Your eyes will see strange sights. Your mind will imagine weird things.

Proverbs 31:3

Don’t waste your strength on women. Don’t waste it on those who destroy kings.

Proverbs 6:24

It keeps you from your neighbor’s wife. It keeps you from the smooth talk of a woman who commits adultery.

Proverbs 7:5

They will keep you from a woman who commits adultery. They will keep you from the smooth talk of a sinful wife.

Leviticus 18:18

“ ‘Do not take your wife’s sister as another wife and have sex with her. Do not do it while your wife is still living.

Deuteronomy 17:17

The king must not have many wives. If he does, they will lead him astray. He must not store up large amounts of silver and gold.