Bible Cross References
Did not Solomon
1 Kings 11:1-8
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Solomon loved many foreign women. Besides the daughter of the king of Egypt he married Hittite women and women from Moab, Ammon, Edom, and Sidon.
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He married them even though the LORD had commanded the Israelites not to intermarry with these people, because they would cause the Israelites to give their loyalty to other gods.
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Solomon married seven hundred princesses and also had three hundred concubines. They made him turn away from God,
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and by the time he was old they had led him into the worship of foreign gods. He was not faithful to the LORD his God, as his father David had been.
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He worshiped Astarte, the goddess of Sidon, and Molech, the disgusting god of Ammon.
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He sinned against the LORD and was not true to him as his father David had been.
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On the mountain east of Jerusalem he built a place to worship Chemosh, the disgusting god of Moab, and a place to worship Molech, the disgusting god of Ammon.
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He also built places of worship where all his foreign wives could burn incense and offer sacrifices to their own gods.
Ecclesiastes 7:26
I found something more bitter than death---the woman who is like a trap. The love she offers you will catch you like a net, and her arms around you will hold you like a chain. A man who pleases God can get away, but she will catch the sinner.
yet among
2 Samuel 12:24
Then David comforted his wife Bathsheba. He had intercourse with her, and she bore a son, whom David named Solomon. The LORD loved the boy
2 Samuel 12:25
and commanded the prophet Nathan to name the boy Jedidiah, because the LORD loved him.
1 Kings 3:13
I will also give you what you have not asked for: all your life you will have wealth and honor, more than that of any other king.
2 Chronicles 1:12
I will give you wisdom and knowledge. And in addition, I will give you more wealth, treasure, and fame than any king has ever had before or will ever have again."
2 Chronicles 9:22
King Solomon was richer and wiser than any other king in the world.
who was beloved
2 Samuel 12:24
Then David comforted his wife Bathsheba. He had intercourse with her, and she bore a son, whom David named Solomon. The LORD loved the boy