1 Kings 11:3

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Among his wives were seven hundred princesses and three hundred concubines, and his wives turned away his heart.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 11:21

Rehoboam loved Maacah daughter of Absalom more than all his other wives and concubines (he took eighteen wives and sixty concubines and became the father of twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters).

Esther 1:18

This very day the noble ladies of Persia and Media who have heard of the queen’s behavior will rebel against the king’s officials, and there will be no end of contempt and wrath!

Ecclesiastes 2:8

I also gathered for myself silver and gold and the treasure of kings and of the provinces; I got singers, both men and women, and delights of the flesh, many concubines.

Ecclesiastes 7:28

which my mind has sought repeatedly, but I have not found. One man among a thousand I found, but a woman among all these I have not found.

Song of Solomon 6:8

There are sixty queens and eighty concubines and maidens without number.

Song of Solomon 6:9

My dove, my perfect one, is the only one, the darling of her mother, flawless to her who bore her. The maidens saw her and called her happy; the queens and concubines praised her.

Deuteronomy 17:17

And he must not acquire many wives for himself or else his heart will turn away; also silver and gold he must not acquire in great quantity for himself.

Judges 3:6

and they took their daughters as wives for themselves, and their own daughters they gave to their sons, and they served their gods.

Judges 9:5

He went to his father’s house at Ophrah and killed his brothers the sons of Jerubbaal, seventy men, on one stone, but Jotham, the youngest son of Jerubbaal, survived, for he hid himself.