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1 Kings 11:1 KJV (With Strong’s)

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But king Solomon loved many strange women, σtogether with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites;

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Ammon; Ammonites; Children of Ammon,

Daughter,

Edomites,

Hittites,

King,

Pharaoh,

Pharaoh’s Daughter,

Solomon,

Woman,

Zidonians; Sidonians

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1-3: Solomon's wives and concubines.

4-8: In his old age they draw him to idolatry.

9-13: God threatens him.

14-22: Solomon's adversaries were Hadad, who was entertained in Egypt;

23-25: Rezon, who reigned in Damascus;

26-40: and Jeroboam, to whom Ahijah prophesied.

41-43: Solomon's acts, reign, and death.

Rehoboam succeeds him.

A.M. 3020-3029.

B.C. 984-975.

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1 Kings 11:8• ⁸And so he did for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods. (1 Kings 11:8)

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Gen. 6:2‑5• ²that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair, and took themselves wives of all that they chose.
³And Jehovah said, My Spirit shall not always plead with Man; for he indeed is flesh; but his days shall be a hundred and twenty years.
⁴In those days were the giants on the earth, and also afterwards, when the sons of God had come in to the daughters of men, and they had borne children to them; these were the heroes, who of old were men of renown.
⁵And Jehovah saw that the wickedness of Man was great on the earth, and every imagination of the thoughts of his heart only evil continually. (Gen. 6:2‑5)

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Deut. 17:17• ¹⁷Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not away; neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold. (Deut. 17:17)

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Neh. 13:23‑27• ²³In those days also I saw Jews that had married wives of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab.
²⁴And their children spoke half in the language of Ashdod, and could not speak in the Jews' language, but according to the language of each people.
²⁵And I contended with them, and cursed them, and smote certain of them and plucked off their hair, and adjured them by God saying, Ye shall not give your daughters to their sons, nor take their daughters for your sons or for yourselves.
²⁶Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? Yet among the many nations was there no king like him, who was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel; but even him did foreign wives cause to sin.
²⁷And should we hearken to you to do all this great evil, to act unfaithfully to our God by marrying foreign wives? (Neh. 13:23‑27)

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Prov. 2:16• ¹⁶To deliver thee from the strange woman, from the stranger who flattereth with her words; (Prov. 2:16)

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Prov. 5:8‑20• ⁸Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:
⁹lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel;
¹⁰lest strangers be filled with thy wealth, and the fruits of thy toil come into the house of a stranger;
¹¹and thou mourn in thine end, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed;
¹²and thou say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof!
¹³and I have not hearkened unto the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to those that instructed me;
¹⁴I was well nigh in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.
¹⁵Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.
¹⁶Thy fountains shall be poured forth, as water-brooks in the broadways.
¹⁷Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee.
¹⁸Let thy fountain be blessed; and have joy of the wife of thy youth.
¹⁹As a lovely hind and a graceful roe, let her breasts satisfy thee at all times: be thou ravished continually with her love.
²⁰And why shouldest thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger? (Prov. 5:8‑20)

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Prov. 6:24• ²⁴to keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman. (Prov. 6:24)

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Prov. 7:5• ⁵that they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger who flattereth with her words. (Prov. 7:5)

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Prov. 22:14• ¹⁴The mouth of strange women is a deep ditch: he with whom Jehovah is displeased shall fall therein. (Prov. 22:14)

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Prov. 23:33• ³³Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thy heart shall speak froward things; (Prov. 23:33)

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1 Kings 3:1• ¹And Solomon allied himself by marriage with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and took Pharaoh's daughter, and brought her into the city of David, until he had ended building his own house, and the house of Jehovah, and the wall of Jerusalem round about. (1 Kings 3:1)

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Lev. 18:18• ¹⁸And thou shalt not take a wife to her sister, to vex her, to uncover her nakedness beside her, during her life. (Lev. 18:18)

• 1KI 11:1-13 In this chapter we come to the history of the responsible king, a subject the Second Book of Chronicles passes over in absolute silence. (“The Cause of the Kingdom?s Ruin: 1 Kings 11:1-13” by H.L. Rossier)

• Solomon had acted according to the thoughts of God toward this Gentile wife {Pharaoh’s daughter}, and Chronicles is careful, as we have seen before, to show us that the king did not give her a place of immediate nearness to the ark of the covenant and the city of the son of David. Thus it was not on account of this union that blame fell upon Solomon; as a millennial type, he, “the light of the nations,” of necessity went beyond the ordinary relationships of a king of Israel. Also the Word sets Pharaoh’s daughter in a place that is distinct from the other strange wives (1 Kings 11:1). (“The Cause of the Kingdom?s Ruin: 1 Kings 11:1-13” by H.L. Rossier)

• Solomon’s sin lay in having “loved many foreign women.” These latter had played a relatively restrained role in David’s life, and yet, as we have seen in 2 Samuel, he had borne some sad and often dreadful consequences in his children. (“The Cause of the Kingdom?s Ruin: 1 Kings 11:1-13” by H.L. Rossier)

• At the head of this humiliating list we find the Moabites who had led Israel astray into the idolatry of Baal-Peor, having gained control of them through the lust of the flesh (Num. 25:1-5). (“The Cause of the Kingdom?s Ruin: 1 Kings 11:1-13” by H.L. Rossier)

J. N. Darby Translation

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But king Solomon loved many foreign women, besides the daughter of Pharaoh: women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, Hittites;