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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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Ministry on This Verse

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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 likewise did he for all his strange wives, which burnt incense and sacrificed unto 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 they took them wives of all which they chose.
³And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.
⁴There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
⁵And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was 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 saw I Jews that had married wives of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab:
²⁴And their children spake half in the speech 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 made them swear by God, saying, Ye shall not give your daughters unto their sons, nor take their daughters unto your sons, or for yourselves.
²⁶Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? yet among many nations was there no king like him, who was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel: nevertheless even him did outlandish women cause to sin.
²⁷Shall we then hearken unto you to do all this great evil, to transgress against our God in marrying strange wives? (Neh. 13:23‑27)

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Prov. 2:16• ¹⁶To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which 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 honor unto others, and thy years unto the cruel:
¹⁰Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labors be in the house of a stranger;
¹¹And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,
¹²And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;
¹³And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!
¹⁴I was almost 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.
¹⁶Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets.
¹⁷Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee.
¹⁸Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.
¹⁹Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.
²⁰And why wilt 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 which flattereth with her words. (Prov. 7:5)

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Prov. 22:14• ¹⁴The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the Lord shall fall therein. (Prov. 22:14)

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Prov. 23:33• ³³Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things. (Prov. 23:33)

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or, beside.

1 Kings 3:1• ¹And Solomon made affinity with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and took Pharaoh's daughter, and brought her into the city of David, until he had made an end of building his own house, and the house of the Lord, and the wall of Jerusalem round about. (1 Kings 3:1)

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Lev. 18:18• ¹⁸Neither shalt thou take a wife to her sister, to vex her, to uncover her nakedness, beside the other in her life time. (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;