1 Kings 11
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But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites;
Of the nations concerning which the LORD said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall not go in to them, neither shall they come in unto you: for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods: Solomon clave unto these in love.

Ye shall not go in

Exodus 23:32,33 You shall make no covenant with them, nor with their gods…

Exodus 34:16 And you take of their daughters to your sons, and their daughters …

Deuteronomy 7:3,4 Neither shall you make marriages with them; your daughter you shall …

Joshua 23:12,13 Else if you do in any wise go back, and join to the remnant of these …

Ezra 9:12 Now therefore give not your daughters to their sons, neither take …

Ezra 10:2 And Shechaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answered …

Malachi 2:11 Judah has dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in …

surely

1 Kings 16:31-33 And it came to pass, as if it had been a light thing for him to walk …

Numbers 25:1-3 And Israel stayed in Shittim, and the people began to commit prostitution …

Judges 3:6,7 And they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their daughters …

2 Chronicles 21:6 And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, like as did the …

2 Corinthians 6:14-16 Be you not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship …

Solomon

Genesis 2:24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall …

Genesis 34:3 And his soul joined to Dinah the daughter of Jacob, and he loved …

Judges 16:4-21 And it came to pass afterward, that he loved a woman in the valley …

2 Chronicles 19:2 And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said …

Psalm 139:21 Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate you? and am not I grieved with …

Romans 1:32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things …

Romans 12:9 Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; hold …

1 Corinthians 15:33 Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.

Revelation 2:4 Nevertheless I have somewhat against you, because you have left your first love.

And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines: and his wives turned away his heart.
For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his heart after other gods: and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God, as was the heart of David his father.

when Solomon

1 Kings 11:42 And the time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel was forty years.

1 Kings 6:1 And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after …

1 Kings 9:10 And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, when Solomon had …

1 Kings 14:21 And Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty …

his wives

1 Kings 11:2 Of the nations concerning which the LORD said to the children of …

Deuteronomy 7:4 For they will turn away your son from following me, that they may …

Deuteronomy 17:17 Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not …

Nehemiah 13:26,27 Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? yet among many …

1 Kings 11:6,38 And Solomon did evil in the sight of the LORD, and went not fully …

1 Kings 6:12,13 Concerning this house which you are in building, if you will walk …

1 Kings 8:61 Let your heart therefore be perfect with the LORD our God, to walk …

1 Kings 9:4 And if you will walk before me, as David your father walked, in integrity …

1 Kings 15:3,14 And he walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before …

2 Kings 20:3 I beseech you, O LORD, remember now how I have walked before you …

1 Chronicles 28:9 And you, Solomon my son, know you the God of your father, and serve …

1 Chronicles 29:19 And give to Solomon my son a perfect heart, to keep your commandments, …

2 Chronicles 17:3 And the LORD was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the first …

2 Chronicles 25:2 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, but not …

2 Chronicles 31:20,21 And thus did Hezekiah throughout all Judah, and worked that which …

2 Chronicles 34:2 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, and walked …

For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.
And Solomon did evil in the sight of the LORD, and went not fully after the LORD, as did David his father.
Then did Solomon build an high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, in the hill that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the abomination of the children of Ammon.

build an high

Leviticus 26:30 And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and …

Numbers 33:52 Then you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before …

2 Kings 21:2,3 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, after the …

2 Kings 23:13,14 And the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the …

Psalm 78:58 For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved …

Ezekiel 20:28,29 For when I had brought them into the land, for the which I lifted …

Chemosh

Numbers 21:29 Woe to you, Moab! you are undone, O people of Chemosh: he has given …

Judges 11:24 Will not you possess that which Chemosh your god gives you to possess? …

Jeremiah 48:13 And Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of Israel was …

abomination

Deuteronomy 13:14 Then shall you inquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and, …

Deuteronomy 17:3,4 And has gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the …

Deuteronomy 27:15 Cursed be the man that makes any graven or molten image, an abomination …

Isaiah 44:19 And none considers in his heart, neither is there knowledge nor understanding …

Ezekiel 18:12 Has oppressed the poor and needy, has spoiled by violence, has not …

Daniel 11:31 And arms shall stand on his part, and they shall pollute the sanctuary …

Daniel 12:11 And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and …

Revelation 17:4,5 And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet color, and decked …

the hill This was the mount of Olives, which lay east of Jerusalem; and that the Hebrews would consider before it, while the west would be behind it; for the very term used to the east, kedem, means before, while acharon, behind, sometimes signifies the west.

Genesis 33:2 And he put the handmaids and their children foremost, and Leah and …

2 Samuel 15:30 And David went up by the ascent of mount Olivet, and wept as he went …

2 Kings 23:13 And the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the …

Zechariah 14:4 And his feet shall stand in that day on the mount of Olives, which …

Matthew 26:30 And when they had sung an hymn, they went out into the mount of Olives.

Acts 1:9,12 And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken …

And likewise did he for all his strange wives, which burnt incense and sacrificed unto their gods.
And the LORD was angry with Solomon, because his heart was turned from the LORD God of Israel, which had appeared unto him twice,
And had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not go after other gods: but he kept not that which the LORD commanded.
Wherefore the LORD said unto Solomon, Forasmuch as this is done of thee, and thou hast not kept my covenant and my statutes, which I have commanded thee, I will surely rend the kingdom from thee, and will give it to thy servant.
Notwithstanding in thy days I will not do it for David thy father's sake: but I will rend it out of the hand of thy son.
Howbeit I will not rend away all the kingdom; but will give one tribe to thy son for David my servant's sake, and for Jerusalem's sake which I have chosen.

Howbeit

1 Kings 11:39 And I will for this afflict the seed of David, but not for ever.

2 Samuel 7:15,16 But my mercy shall not depart away from him, as I took it from Saul, …

1 Chronicles 17:13,14 I will be his father, and he shall be my son: and I will not take …

Psalm 89:33-37 Nevertheless my loving kindness will I not utterly take from him, …

one tribe

1 Kings 11:35,36 But I will take the kingdom out of his son's hand, and will give …

1 Kings 12:20 And it came to pass, when all Israel heard that Jeroboam was come …

for David

1 Kings 11:12,32 Notwithstanding in your days I will not do it for David your father's …

Deuteronomy 9:5 Not for your righteousness, or for the uprightness of your heart, …

2 Kings 13:23 And the LORD was gracious to them, and had compassion on them, and …

2 Kings 19:34 For I will defend this city, to save it, for my own sake, and for …

Psalm 89:49 Lord, where are your former loving kindnesses, which you swore to …

Psalm 132:1,17 Lord, remember David, and all his afflictions…

Isaiah 9:7 Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, …

Jeremiah 33:17-26 For thus said the LORD; David shall never want a man to sit on the …

Luke 1:32,33 He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and …

for Jerusalem;s

Deuteronomy 12:5,11 But to the place which the LORD your God shall choose out of all …

2 Kings 21:4 And he built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD said, …

2 Kings 23:27 And the LORD said, I will remove Judah also out of my sight, as I …

Psalm 132:13,14 For the LORD has chosen Zion; he has desired it for his habitation…

Isaiah 14:32 What shall one then answer the messengers of the nation? That the …

Isaiah 62:1,7 For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's sake …

Jeremiah 33:15,16 In those days, and at that time, will I cause the Branch of righteousness …

And the LORD stirred up an adversary unto Solomon, Hadad the Edomite: he was of the king's seed in Edom.
For it came to pass, when David was in Edom, and Joab the captain of the host was gone up to bury the slain, after he had smitten every male in Edom;
(For six months did Joab remain there with all Israel, until he had cut off every male in Edom:)
That Hadad fled, he and certain Edomites of his father's servants with him, to go into Egypt; Hadad being yet a little child.
And they arose out of Midian, and came to Paran: and they took men with them out of Paran, and they came to Egypt, unto Pharaoh king of Egypt; which gave him an house, and appointed him victuals, and gave him land.

Midian Probably not the Midian east of the Red Sea, to which Moses fled, (

Exodus 2:15 Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to slay Moses. But Moses …

Exodus 22:4,7 If the theft be certainly found in his hand alive, whether it be …

Exodus 25:15 The staves shall be in the rings of the ark: they shall not be taken from it.

Exodus 31:2 See, I have called by name Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, …

Exodus 25:2 Speak to the children of Israel, that they bring me an offering…

Genesis 25:2,4 And she bore him Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and …

Numbers 22:4 And Moab said to the elders of Midian, Now shall this company lick …

Numbers 25:6,14,18 And, behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought to his …

Paran Probably the city of Paran, or the district around it, situated in the south of Iumea, and according to Eusebius, three days' journey east from Elah or Elath, at the head of the eastern branch, or Elamitic gulf of the Red Sea.

Genesis 14:6 And the Horites in their mount Seir, to Elparan, which is by the wilderness.

Genesis 21:21 And he dwelled in the wilderness of Paran: and his mother took him …

Numbers 10:12 And the children of Israel took their journeys out of the wilderness …

Deuteronomy 1:1 These be the words which Moses spoke to all Israel on this side Jordan …

Deuteronomy 33:2 And he said, The LORD came from Sinai, and rose up from Seir to them; …

Habakkuk 3:3 God came from Teman, and the Holy One from mount Paran. Selah. His …

And Hadad found great favour in the sight of Pharaoh, so that he gave him to wife the sister of his own wife, the sister of Tahpenes the queen.
And the sister of Tahpenes bare him Genubath his son, whom Tahpenes weaned in Pharaoh's house: and Genubath was in Pharaoh's household among the sons of Pharaoh.
And when Hadad heard in Egypt that David slept with his fathers, and that Joab the captain of the host was dead, Hadad said to Pharaoh, Let me depart, that I may go to mine own country.
Then Pharaoh said unto him, But what hast thou lacked with me, that, behold, thou seekest to go to thine own country? And he answered, Nothing: howbeit let me go in any wise.
And God stirred him up another adversary, Rezon the son of Eliadah, which fled from his lord Hadadezer king of Zobah:
And he gathered men unto him, and became captain over a band, when David slew them of Zobah: and they went to Damascus, and dwelt therein, and reigned in Damascus.

to Damascus

1 Kings 19:15 And the LORD said to him, Go, return on your way to the wilderness …

1 Kings 20:34 And Ben-hadad said to him, The cities, which my father took from …

Genesis 14:15 And he divided himself against them, he and his servants, by night, …

Acts 9:2 And desired of him letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if …

in Damascus Damascus, called also Damesk, but generally El Sham, by the Arabs, is situated in a delightful plain, well watered by the Barrada, at the eastern foot of Antilibanus, being surrounded by the hills in the form of a triumphal arc,

And he was an adversary to Israel all the days of Solomon, beside the mischief that Hadad did: and he abhorred Israel, and reigned over Syria.
And Jeroboam the son of Nebat, an Ephrathite of Zereda, Solomon's servant, whose mother's name was Zeruah, a widow woman, even he lifted up his hand against the king.
And this was the cause that he lifted up his hand against the king: Solomon built Millo, and repaired the breaches of the city of David his father.
And the man Jeroboam was a mighty man of valour: and Solomon seeing the young man that he was industrious, he made him ruler over all the charge of the house of Joseph.
And it came to pass at that time when Jeroboam went out of Jerusalem, that the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite found him in the way; and he had clad himself with a new garment; and they two were alone in the field:
And Ahijah caught the new garment that was on him, and rent it in twelve pieces:
And he said to Jeroboam, Take thee ten pieces: for thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, Behold, I will rend the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon, and will give ten tribes to thee:
(But he shall have one tribe for my servant David's sake, and for Jerusalem's sake, the city which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel:)
Because that they have forsaken me, and have worshipped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Milcom the god of the children of Ammon, and have not walked in my ways, to do that which is right in mine eyes, and to keep my statutes and my judgments, as did David his father.
Howbeit I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand: but I will make him prince all the days of his life for David my servant's sake, whom I chose, because he kept my commandments and my statutes:
But I will take the kingdom out of his son's hand, and will give it unto thee, even ten tribes.
And unto his son will I give one tribe, that David my servant may have a light alway before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen me to put my name there.
And I will take thee, and thou shalt reign according to all that thy soul desireth, and shalt be king over Israel.
And it shall be, if thou wilt hearken unto all that I command thee, and wilt walk in my ways, and do that is right in my sight, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as David my servant did; that I will be with thee, and build thee a sure house, as I built for David, and will give Israel unto thee.
And I will for this afflict the seed of David, but not for ever.
Solomon sought therefore to kill Jeroboam. And Jeroboam arose, and fled into Egypt, unto Shishak king of Egypt, and was in Egypt until the death of Solomon.

Solomon sought

2 Chronicles 16:10 Then Asa was wroth with the seer, and put him in a prison house; …

Proverbs 21:30 There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against the LORD.

Isaiah 14:24-27 The LORD of hosts has sworn, saying, Surely as I have thought, so …

Isaiah 46:10 Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the …

Lamentations 3:37 Who is he that said, and it comes to pass, when the Lord commands it not?

Shishak This is the first time we meet with the proper name of an Egyptian king in Scripture, Pharaoh being the general appellation for all the sovereigns of that country. Some are of opinion that Shishak is the same with the celebrated Sesostris of the Greek historians; but it is probable that this king lived long before Solomon's time. Usher thinks him to be Sesonchis, and places the beginning of his reign, A.M.

1 Kings 14:25,26 And it came to pass in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, that Shishak …

2 Chronicles 12:2-9 And it came to pass, that in the fifth year of king Rehoboam Shishak …

And the rest of the acts of Solomon, and all that he did, and his wisdom, are they not written in the book of the acts of Solomon?
And the time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel was forty years.

time [heb] days.
forty years Josephus says fourscore years; which is sufficiently absurd. Calmet supposes him to have been

1 Kings 2:11 And the days that David reigned over Israel were forty years: seven …

And Solomon slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David his father: and Rehoboam his son reigned in his stead.

A.M.

1 Kings 1:21 Otherwise it shall come to pass, when my lord the king shall sleep …

1 Kings 14:20 And the days which Jeroboam reigned were two and twenty years: and …

1 Kings 15:8,24 And Abijam slept with his fathers; and they buried him in the city …

1 Kings 16:6 So Baasha slept with his fathers, and was buried in Tirzah: and Elah …

Deuteronomy 31:16 And the LORD said to Moses, Behold, you shall sleep with your fathers; …

2 Kings 16:20 And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers …

2 Kings 20:21 And Hezekiah slept with his fathers: and Manasseh his son reigned in his stead.

2 Kings 21:18 And Manasseh slept with his fathers, and was buried in the garden …

buried

1 Kings 2:10 So David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David.

1 Kings 14:31 And Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers …

2 Kings 21:18,26 And Manasseh slept with his fathers, and was buried in the garden …

2 Chronicles 21:20 Thirty and two years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned …

2 Chronicles 26:23 So Uzziah slept with his fathers, and they buried him with his fathers …

2 Chronicles 28:27 And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city, …

Jeremiah 22:19 He shall be buried with the burial of an donkey, drawn and cast forth …

Rehoboam

1 Chronicles 3:10 And Solomon's son was Rehoboam, Abia his son, Asa his son, Jehoshaphat his son,

2 Chronicles 9:31 And Solomon slept with his fathers, and he was buried in the city …

2 Chronicles 13:7 And there are gathered to him vain men, the children of Belial, and …

Matthew 1:5 And Salmon begat Booz of Rachab; and Booz begat Obed of Ruth; and …

Roboam

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