1 Kings 11:1-25
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Now w King Solomon loved many foreign women, along with the daughter of Pharaoh: Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, and Hittite women,
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from the nations concerning which the Lord had said to the people of Israel, x "You shall not enter into marriage with them, neither shall they with you, for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods." Solomon clung to these in love.
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He had 700 wives, princesses, and 300 concubines. And his wives turned away his heart.
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For when Solomon was old his wives turned away his heart after other gods, and y his heart was not wholly true to the Lord his God, z as was the heart of David his father.
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For Solomon went after a Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and after b Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.
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So Solomon did what was evil in the sight of the Lord and did not wholly follow the Lord, as David his father had done.
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Then Solomon built a high place for c Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for d Molech the abomination of the Ammonites, on the mountain east of Jerusalem.
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And so he did for all his foreign wives, who made offerings and sacrificed to their gods.
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And the Lord was angry with Solomon, because e his heart had turned away from the Lord, the God of Israel, f who had appeared to him twice
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and g had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not go after other gods. But he did not keep what the Lord commanded.
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Therefore the Lord said to Solomon, "Since this has been your practice and you have not kept my covenant and my statutes that I have commanded you, h I will surely tear the kingdom from you and will give it to your servant.
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Yet for the sake of David your father I will not do it in your days, but I will tear it out of the hand of your son.
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However, i I will not tear away all the kingdom, but j I will give one tribe to your son, for the sake of David my servant and for the sake of Jerusalem k that I have chosen."
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And the Lord raised up an adversary against Solomon, Hadad the Edomite. He was of the royal house in Edom.
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For l when David was in Edom, and Joab the commander of the army went up to bury the slain, he struck down every male in Edom
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(for Joab and all Israel remained there six months, until he had cut off every male in Edom).
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But Hadad fled to Egypt, together with certain Edomites of his father's servants, Hadad still being a little child.
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They set out from Midian and came to m Paran and took men with them from Paran and came to Egypt, to Pharaoh king of Egypt, who gave him a house and assigned him an allowance of food and gave him land.
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And Hadad found great favor in the sight of Pharaoh, so that he gave him in marriage the sister of his own wife, the sister of Tahpenes the queen.
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And the sister of Tahpenes bore him Genubath his son, whom Tahpenes weaned in Pharaoh's house. And Genubath was in Pharaoh's house among the sons of Pharaoh.
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But when Hadad heard in Egypt n that David slept with his fathers and that Joab the commander of the army was dead, Hadad said to Pharaoh, "Let me depart, that I may go to my own country."
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But Pharaoh said to him, "What have you lacked with me that you are now seeking to go to your own country?" And he said to him, "Only let me depart."
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God also raised up as an adversary to him, Rezon the son of Eliada, who had fled from his master o Hadadezer king of Zobah.
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And he gathered men about him and became leader of a marauding band, p after the killing by David. And they went to Damascus and lived there and made him king in Damascus.
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He was an adversary of Israel all the days of Solomon, doing harm as Hadad did. And he loathed Israel and reigned over Syria.
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Cross References
Nehemiah 13:26
Did not Solomon king of Israel sin on account of such women? Among the many nations there was no king like him, and he was beloved by his God, and God made him king over all Israel. Nevertheless, foreign women made even him to sin.
Deuteronomy 17:17
And he shall not acquire many wives for himself, lest his heart turn away, nor shall he acquire for himself excessive silver and gold.
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Exodus 34:16
And you take of their daughters for your sons, and their daughters whore after their gods and make your sons whore after their gods.
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1 Kings 8:61
Let your heart therefore be wholly true to the Lord our God, walking in his statutes and keeping his commandments, as at this day.
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1 Kings 9:4
And as for you, if you will walk before me, as David your father walked, with integrity of heart and uprightness, doing according to all that I have commanded you, and keeping my statutes and my rules.
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1 Kings 11:33
Because they have forsaken me and worshiped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of Moab, and Milcom the god of the Ammonites, and they have not walked in my ways, doing what is right in my sight and keeping my statutes and my rules, as David his father did.
Judges 2:13
They abandoned the Lord and served the Baals and the Ashtaroth.
2 Kings 23:13
And the king defiled the high places that were east of Jerusalem, to the south of the mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.
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1 Kings 11:7
Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for Molech the abomination of the Ammonites, on the mountain east of Jerusalem.
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Numbers 21:29
Woe to you, O Moab! You are undone, O people of Chemosh! He has made his sons fugitives, and his daughters captives, to an Amorite king, Sihon.
2 Kings 23:13
And the king defiled the high places that were east of Jerusalem, to the south of the mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.
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Cross References
Leviticus 18:21
You shall not give any of your children to offer them to Molech, and so profane the name of your God: I am the Lord.
Leviticus 20:2 - 4
Say to the people of Israel, Any one of the people of Israel or of the strangers who sojourn in Israel who gives any of his children to Molech shall surely be put to death. The people of the land shall stone him with stones.
2 Kings 23:10
And he defiled Topheth, which is in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, that no one might burn his son or his daughter as an offering to Molech.
Acts 7:43
You took up the tent of Moloch and the star of your god Rephan, the images that you made to worship; and I will send you into exile beyond Babylon.
1 Kings 11:5
For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.
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1 Kings 11:2
From the nations concerning which the Lord had said to the people of Israel, "You shall not enter into marriage with them, neither shall they with you, for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods." Solomon clung to these in love.
1 Kings 11:4
For when Solomon was old his wives turned away his heart after other gods, and his heart was not wholly true to the Lord his God, as was the heart of David his father.
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Cross References
1 Kings 3:5
At Gibeon the Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream by night, and God said, "Ask what I shall give you.
1 Kings 9:2
The Lord appeared to Solomon a second time, as he had appeared to him at Gibeon.
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1 Kings 6:12
Concerning this house that you are building, if you will walk in my statutes and obey my rules and keep all my commandments and walk in them, then I will establish my word with you, which I spoke to David your father.
1 Kings 9:6
But if you turn aside from following me, you or your children, and do not keep my commandments and my statutes that I have set before you, but go and serve other gods and worship them.
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Cross References
1 Kings 11:31
And he said to Jeroboam, "Take for yourself ten pieces, for thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, 'Behold, I am about to tear the kingdom from the hand of Solomon and will give you ten tribes
1 Kings 12:15 - 16
So the king did not listen to the people, for it was a turn of affairs brought about by the Lord that he might fulfill his word, which the Lord spoke by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.
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Cross References
2 Samuel 7:15
But my steadfast love will not depart from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away from before you.
Psalms 89:33
But I will not remove from him my steadfast love or be false to my faithfulness.
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1 Kings 11:32
(but he shall have one tribe, for the sake of my servant David and for the sake of Jerusalem, the city that I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel).
1 Kings 11:36
Yet to his son I will give one tribe, that David my servant may always have a lamp before me in Jerusalem, the city where I have chosen to put my name.
1 Kings 12:20
And when all Israel heard that Jeroboam had returned, they sent and called him to the assembly and made him king over all Israel. There was none that followed the house of David but the tribe of Judah only.
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Deuteronomy 12:5
But you shall seek the place that the Lord your God will choose out of all your tribes to put his name and make his habitation there. There you shall go.
Deuteronomy 12:11
Then to the place that the Lord your God will choose, to make his name dwell there, there you shall bring all that I command you: your burnt offerings and your sacrifices, your tithes and the contribution that you present, and all your finest vow offerings that you vow to the Lord.
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2 Samuel 8:14
Then he put garrisons in Edom; throughout all Edom he put garrisons, and all the Edomites became David's servants. And the Lord gave victory to David wherever he went.
1 Chronicles 18:12 - 13
And Abishai, the son of Zeruiah, killed 18,000 Edomites in the Valley of Salt.
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Numbers 10:12
And the people of Israel set out by stages from the wilderness of Sinai. And the cloud settled down in the wilderness of Paran.
Deuteronomy 33:2
He said, "The Lord came from Sinai and dawned from Seir upon us; he shone forth from Mount Paran; he came from the ten thousands of holy ones, with flaming fire at his right hand.
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1 Kings 2:10
Then David slept with his fathers and was buried in the city of David.
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2 Samuel 10:16
And Hadadezer sent and brought out the Syrians who were beyond the Euphrates. They came to Helam, with Shobach the commander of the army of Hadadezer at their head.
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2 Samuel 8:3
David also defeated Hadadezer the son of Rehob, king of Zobah, as he went to restore his power at the river Euphrates.
2 Samuel 10:8
And the Ammonites came out and drew up in battle array at the entrance of the gate, and the Syrians of Zobah and of Rehob and the men of Tob and Maacah were by themselves in the open country.
2 Samuel 10:18
And the Syrians fled before Israel, and David killed of the Syrians the men of 700 chariots, and 40,000 horsemen, and wounded Shobach the commander of their army, so that he died there.
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