1 Kings 3:1

New Living Translation

Solomon made an alliance with Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, and married one of his daughters. He brought her to live in the City of David until he could finish building his palace and the Temple of the Lord and the wall around the city.

Cross References

2 Samuel 5:7

But David captured the fortress of Zion, which is now called the City of David.

1 Kings 11:1

Now King Solomon loved many foreign women. Besides Pharaoh’s daughter, he married women from Moab, Ammon, Edom, Sidon, and from among the Hittites.

1 Kings 2:10

Then David died and was buried with his ancestors in the City of David.

1 Kings 6:1

It was in midspring, in the month of Ziv, during the fourth year of Solomon’s reign, that he began to construct the Temple of the Lord. This was 480 years after the people of Israel were rescued from their slavery in the land of Egypt.

1 Kings 7:1

Solomon also built a palace for himself, and it took him thirteen years to complete the construction.

1 Kings 7:8

Solomon’s living quarters surrounded a courtyard behind this hall, and they were constructed the same way. He also built similar living quarters for Pharaoh’s daughter, whom he had married.

1 Kings 9:1

So Solomon finished building the Temple of the Lord, as well as the royal palace. He completed everything he had planned to do.

1 Kings 9:10

It took Solomon twenty years to build the Lord’s Temple and his own royal palace. At the end of that time,

1 Kings 9:24

Solomon moved his wife, Pharaoh’s daughter, from the City of David to the new palace he had built for her. Then he constructed the supporting terraces.

1 Chronicles 11:7

David made the fortress his home, and that is why it is called the City of David.

2 Chronicles 18:1

Jehoshaphat enjoyed great riches and high esteem, and he made an alliance with Ahab of Israel by having his son marry Ahab’s daughter.

2 Chronicles 8:11

Solomon moved his wife, Pharaoh’s daughter, from the City of David to the new palace he had built for her. He said, “My wife must not live in King David’s palace, for the Ark of the Lord has been there, and it is holy ground.”

Ezra 5:11

“This was their answer: ‘We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth, and we are rebuilding the Temple that was built here many years ago by a great king of Israel.

Ezra 9:14

But even so, we are again breaking your commands and intermarrying with people who do these detestable things. Won’t your anger be enough to destroy us, so that even this little remnant no longer survives?

Deuteronomy 23:8

The third generation of Edomites and Egyptians may enter the assembly of the Lord.