1 Kings 11:4

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

For when Solomon was old, his wives turned away his heart after other gods, and his heart was not true to the Lord his God, as was the heart of his father David.

Cross References

1 Kings 11:2

from the nations concerning which the Lord had said to the Israelites, “You shall not enter into marriage with them, neither shall they with you, for they will surely incline your heart to follow their gods.” Solomon clung to these in love.

1 Kings 11:33

This is because he has forsaken me, worshiped Astarte the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of Moab, and Milcom the god of the Ammonites, and has not walked in my ways, doing what is right in my sight and keeping my statutes and my ordinances, as his father David did.

1 Kings 11:38

If you will listen to all that I command you, walk in my ways, and do what is right in my sight by keeping my statutes and my commandments, as David my servant did, I will be with you and will build you an enduring house, as I built for David, and I will give Israel to you.

1 Kings 11:42

The time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel was forty years.

1 Kings 11:6

So Solomon did what was evil in the sight of the Lord and did not completely follow the Lord, as his father David had done.

1 Kings 11:9

Then the Lord was angry with Solomon because his heart had turned away from the Lord, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice

1 Kings 14:21

Now Rehoboam son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city that the Lord had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonite.

1 Kings 15:14

But the high places were not taken away. Nevertheless, the heart of Asa was true to the Lord all his days.

1 Kings 15:3

He committed all the sins that his father did before him; his heart was not true to the Lord his God, like the heart of his father David.

1 Kings 3:3

Solomon loved the Lord, walking in the statutes of his father David, except that he sacrificed and offered incense at the high places.

1 Kings 6:1

In the four hundred eightieth year after the Israelites came out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, in the month of Ziv, which is the second month, he began to build the house of the Lord.

1 Kings 8:61

Therefore devote yourselves completely to the Lord our God, walking in his statutes and keeping his commandments, as at this day.”

1 Kings 9:10

At the end of twenty years, in which Solomon had built the two houses, the house of the Lord and the king’s house,

1 Kings 9:4

As for you, if you will walk before me as David your father walked, with integrity of heart and uprightness, doing according to all that I have commanded you and keeping my statutes and my ordinances,

2 Kings 20:3

“Remember now, O Lord, I implore you, how I have walked before you in faithfulness with a whole heart and have done what is good in your sight.” Hezekiah wept bitterly.

1 Chronicles 28:9

“And you, my son Solomon, know the God of your father, and serve him with single mind and willing heart, for the Lord searches every mind and understands every plan and thought. If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you forsake him, he will abandon you forever.

1 Chronicles 29:19

Grant to my son Solomon that with single mind he may keep your commandments, your decrees, and your statutes, performing all of them, and that he may build the temple for which I have made provision.”

2 Chronicles 17:3

The Lord was with Jehoshaphat because he walked in the earlier ways of his father; he did not seek the Baals

2 Chronicles 25:2

He did what was right in the sight of the Lord, yet not with a true heart.

2 Chronicles 34:2

He did what was right in the sight of the Lord and walked in the ways of his ancestor David; he did not turn aside to the right or to the left.

Exodus 20:3

you shall have no other gods before me.

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.

Deuteronomy 7:4

for that would turn away your children from following me, to serve other gods. Then the anger of the Lord would be kindled against you, and he would destroy you quickly.