Deuteronomy 17:17

Wycliffe's Bible with Modern Spelling

The king shall not have many wives, that draw his mind to lusts, neither he shall have great weights of silver and of gold.

Cross References

Genesis 2:24

Wherefore a man shall forsake [his] father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and they shall be twain [or two] in one flesh.

2 Samuel 12:11

Therefore the Lord saith these things, Lo! I shall raise upon thee the evil of thine house, and I shall take thy wives in thine eyes or thy sight, and I shall give them to thy neigh-bour, and he shall sleep with thy wives in the eyes of this sun.

2 Samuel 5:13

Therefore David took yet more concubines, and wives of Jerusalem, after that he came from Hebron; and also other sons and daughters were born to David.

1 Kings 10:21

But also all the vessels, of which king Solomon drank, were of gold, and all the appurtenance of the house of the forest of Lebanon was of purest gold; silver was not used at all, neither it was areckoned of any price in the days of Solomon.

1 Kings 10:27

And he made, that so great abundance of silver was in Jerusalem, how great was also of stones; and he gave the multitude of cedars as syca-mores, that grow in field places.

1 Chronicles 14:3

And David took other wives in Jerusalem, and he begat sons and daughters.

2 Chronicles 1:15

And the king gave in Jerusalem gold and silver as stones in plenty, and he gave cedar trees as sycamores, that come forth in field places in great multitude.

2 Chronicles 11:21

And Rehoboam loved Maachah, the daughter of Absalom, above all his wives and his secondary wives. And he had wedded eighteen wives, and he had sixty secondary wives; and he begat eight and twenty sons, and sixty daughters.

Nehemiah 13:26

and I said, Whether Solomon, the king of Israel, sinned not in such things? And certainly in many folks there was no king like him, and he was loved of his God, and God setted [or set] him king upon all Israel, and alien women brought him to sin.

Psalm 62:10

Do not ye have hope in wicked-ness, and do not ye covet ravens; if riches be plenteous, do not ye set the heart thereto.

Proverbs 31:3

Give thou not thy chattel [or thy substance] to women, and thy riches to do away kings.

Malachi 2:15

Whether one made not, and the residue of spirit is his? and what seeketh one, no but the seed of God? Therefore keep ye your spirit, and do not thou despise the wife of thy youth;

Matthew 13:22

But he that is sown in thorns, is this that heareth the word, and the busyness of this world, and the fallacy [or the falseness] of riches strangleth the word, and it is made without fruit.

Matthew 19:5

And he said, for this thing a man shall leave father and mother, and he shall draw [or cleave] to his wife; and they shall be twain in one flesh.

Luke 12:15

And he said to them, See ye, and beware of all covetousness; for the life of a man is not in the abundance of the things, which he wieldeth.

1 Timothy 6:17

Command thou to the rich men of this world, that they understand not highly [or proudly], neither that they hope in uncertainty of riches, but in the living God, that giveth to us all things plenteously to use;

1 Timothy 6:9

For they that will be made rich, fall into temptation, and into the snare of the devil, and into many unprofitable desires and noxious, which drown men into death and perdition.