1 Kings 11:3

The Scriptures 2009

And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines. And his wives turned away his heart.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 11:21

And Reḥaḇ‛am loved Ma‛aḵah the granddaughter of Aḇshalom more than all his wives and his concubines. For he had taken eighteen wives and sixty concubines, and brought forth twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters.

Esther 1:18

“And this day the princesses of Persia and Media shall say to all the sovereign’s officials that they have heard of the matter of the sovereigness – with plenty of scorn and wrath.

Ecclesiastes 2:8

I also gathered for myself silver and gold and the treasures of sovereigns and of the provinces. I provided male and female singers for myself, and the pleasures of men – a woman and women.

Ecclesiastes 7:28

which my being still seeks but have not found: I have found one man among a thousand, but a woman among all these I have not found.

Song of Solomon 6:8

There are sixty sovereignesses and eighty concubines, And innumerable young women.

Song of Solomon 6:9

My dove, my perfect one, Is the only one, the only one of her mother, The choice of the one who bore her. The daughters saw, and called her blessed, Sovereignesses and concubines, And they praised her.

Deuteronomy 17:17

“And he is not to increase wives for himself, lest his heart turn away, nor is he to greatly increase silver and gold for himself.

Judges 3:6

and took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their daughters to their sons, and they served their mighty ones.

Judges 9:5

And he went to his father’s house at Ophrah and killed his brothers, the seventy sons of Yerubba‛al, on one stone. But Yotham the youngest son of Yerubba‛al was left, because he hid himself.