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Selected Verse: 1 Kings 3:1 - Strong Concordance
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| 1Ki 3:1 |
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And Solomon [08010] made affinity [02859] with Pharaoh [06547] king [04428] of Egypt [04714], and took [03947] Pharaoh's [06547] daughter [01323], and brought [0935] her into the city [05892] of David [01732], until he had made an end [03615] of building [01129] his own house [01004], and the house [01004] of the LORD [03068], and the wall [02346] of Jerusalem [03389] round about [05439]. |
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And 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. |
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| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
SOLOMON MARRIES PHARAOH'S DAUGHTER. (Kg1 3:1)
Solomon made affinity with Pharaoh--This was a royal title, equivalent to "sultan," and the personal name of this monarch is said to have been Vaphres. The formation, on equal terms, of this matrimonial alliance with the royal family of Egypt, shows the high consideration to which the Hebrew kingdom had now arisen. Rosellini has given, from the Egyptian monuments, what is supposed to be a portrait of this princess. She was received in the land of her adoption with great eclat; for the Song of Solomon and the forty-fifth Psalm are supposed to have been composed in honor of this occasion, although they may both have a higher typical reference to the introduction of the Gentiles into the church.
and brought her into the city of David--that is, Jerusalem. She was not admissible into the stronghold of Zion, the building where the ark was (Deu 23:7-8). She seems to have been lodged at first in his mother's apartments (Sol 3:4; Sol 8:2), as a suitable residence was not yet provided for her in the new palace (Kg1 7:8; Kg1 9:24; Ch2 8:11).
building . . . the wall of Jerusalem round about--Although David had begun (Psa 51:18), it was, according to JOSEPHUS, reserved for Solomon to extend and complete the fortifications of the city. It has been questioned whether this marriage was in conformity with the law (see Exo 34:16; Deu 7:3; Ezr 10:1-10; Neh 13:26). But it is nowhere censured in Scripture, as are the connections Solomon formed with other foreigners (Kg1 11:1-3); whence it may be inferred that he had stipulated for her abandonment of idolatry, and conforming to the Jewish religion (Psa 45:10-11). |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
What Pharaoh is meant is uncertain. It must have been a predecessor of Shishak (or Sheshonk), who invaded Judaea more than 40 years later Kg1 14:25; and probabilities are in favor, not of Psusennes II, the last king of Manetho's 21st dynasty, but of Psinaces, the predecessor of Psusennes. This, the Tanite dynasty, had become very weak, especially toward its close, from where we may conceive how gladly it would ally itself with the powerful house of David. The Jews were not forbidden to marry foreign wives, if they became proselytes. As Solomon is not blamed for this marriage either here or in 1 Kings 11, and as the idol temples which he allowed to be built Kg1 11:5-7 were in no case dedicated to Egyptian deities, it is to be presumed that his Egyptian wife adopted her husband's religion.
The city of David - The city, situated on the eastern hill, or true Zion, where the temple was afterward built, over against the city of the Jehusites (Kg1 9:24; compare Ch2 8:11). |
| Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
Solomon's marriage and the religious state of the kingdom. - Kg1 3:1. When Solomon had well secured his possession of the throne (Kg1 2:46), he entered into alliance with Pharaoh, by taking his daughter as his wife. This Pharaoh of Egypt is supposed by Winer, Ewald, and others to have been Psusennes, the last king of the twenty-first (Tanitic) dynasty, who reigned thirty-five years; since the first king of the twenty-second (Bubastic) dynasty, Sesonchis or Sheshonk, was certainly the Shishak who conquered Jerusalem in the fifth year of Rehoboam's reign (Kg1 14:25-26). The alliance by marriage with the royal family of Egypt presupposes that Egypt was desirous of cultivating friendly relations with the kingdom of Israel, which had grown into a power to be dreaded; although, as we know nothing more of the history of Egypt at that time than the mere names of the kings (as given by Manetho), it is impossible to determine what may have been the more precise grounds which led the reigning king of Egypt to seek the friendship of Israel. There is, at any rate, greater probability in this supposition than in that of Thenius, who conjectures that Solomon contracted this marriage because he saw the necessity of entering into a closer relationship with this powerful neighbour, who had a perfectly free access to Palestine. The conclusion of this marriage took place in the first year of Solomon's reign, though probably not at the very beginning of the reign, but not till after his buildings had been begun, as we may infer from the expression לבנות כּלּתו עד (until he had made an end of building). Moreover, Solomon had already married Naamah the Ammonitess before ascending the throne, and had had a son by her (compare Kg1 14:21 with Kg1 11:42-43). - Marriage with an Egyptian princess was not a transgression of the law, as it was only marriages with Canaanitish women that were expressly prohibited (Exo 34:16; Deu 7:3), whereas it was allowable to marry even foreign women taken in war (Deu 21:10.). At the same time, it was only when the foreign wives renounced idolatry and confessed their faith in Jehovah, that such marriages were in accordance with the spirit of the law. And we may assume that this was the case even with Pharaoh's daughter; because Solomon adhered so faithfully to the Lord during the first years of his reign, that he would not have tolerated any idolatry in his neighbourhood, and we cannot find any trace of Egyptian idolatry in Israel in the time of Solomon, and, lastly, the daughter of Pharaoh is expressly distinguished in Kg1 11:1 from the foreign wives who tempted Solomon to idolatry in his old age. The assertion of Seb. Schmidt and Thenius to the contrary rests upon a false interpretation of Kg1 11:1. - "And he brought her into the city of David, till he had finished the building of his palace," etc. Into the city of David: i.e., not into the palace in which his father had dwelt, as Thenius arbitrarily interprets it in opposition to Ch2 8:11, but into a house in the city of David or Jerusalem, from which he brought her up into the house appointed for her after the building of his own palace was finished (Kg1 9:24). The building of the house of Jehovah is mentioned as well, because the sacred tent for the ark of the covenant was set up in the palace of David until the temple was finished, and the temple was not consecrated till after the completion of the building of the palace (see at Kg1 8:1). By the building of "the wall of Jerusalem" we are to understand a stronger fortification, and possibly also the extension of the city wall (see at Kg1 11:27).
Kg1 3:2
"Only the people sacrificed upon high places, because there was not yet a house built for the name of Jehovah until those days." The limiting רק, only, by which this general account of the existing condition of the religious worship is appended to what precedes, may be accounted for from the antithesis to the strengthening of the kingdom by Solomon mentioned in Kg1 2:46. The train of thought is the following: It is true that Solomon's authority was firmly established by the punishment of the rebels, so that he was able to ally himself by marriage with the king of Egypt; but just as he was obliged to bring his Egyptian wife into the city of David, because the building of his palace as not yet finished, so the people, and (according to Kg1 2:3) even Solomon himself, were only able to sacrifice to the Lord at that time upon altars on the high places, because the temple was not yet built. The participle מזבּחים denotes the continuation of this religious condition (see Ewald, 168, c.). The בּמות, or high places,
(Note: The opinion of Bttcher and Thenius, that בּמה signifies a "sacred coppice," is only based upon untenable etymological combinations, and cannot be proved. And Ewald's view is equally unfounded, viz., that "high places were an old Canaanaean species of sanctuary, which at that time had become common in Israel also, and consisted of a tall stone of a conical shape, as the symbol of the Holy One, and of the real high place, viz., an altar, a sacred tree or grove, or even an image of the one God as well" (Gesch. iii. p. 390). For, on the one hand, it cannot be shown that the tall stone of a conical shape existed even in the case of the Canaanitish bamoth, and, on the other hand, it is impossible to adduce a shadow of a proof that the Israelitish bamoth, which were dedicated to Jehovah, were constructed precisely after the pattern of the Baal's-bamoth of the Canaanites.)
were places of sacrifice and prayer, which were built upon eminences of hills, because men thought they were nearer the Deity there, and which consisted in some cases probably of an altar only, though as a rule there was an altar with a sanctuary built by the side (בּמות בּית, Kg1 13:32; Kg2 17:29, Kg2 17:32; Kg2 23:19), so that בּמה frequently stands for בּמה בּית (e.g., Kg1 11:7; Kg1 14:23; Kg2 21:3; Kg2 23:8), and the בּמה is also distinguished from the מזבּח (Kg2 23:15; Ch2 14:2). These high places were consecrated to the worship of Jehovah, and essentially different from the high places of the Canaanites which were consecrated to Baal. Nevertheless sacrificing upon these high places was opposed to the law, according to which the place which the Lord Himself had chosen for the revelation of His name was the only place where sacrifices were to be offered (Lev 17:3.); and therefore it is excused here on the ground that no house (temple) had yet been built to the name of the Lord.
Kg1 3:3
Even Solomon, although he loved the Lord, walking in the statutes of his father David, i.e., according to Kg1 2:3, in the commandments of the Lord as they are written in the law of Moses, sacrificed and burnt incense upon high places. Before the building of the temple, more especially since the tabernacle had lost its significance as the central place of the gracious presence of God among His people, through the removal of the ark of the covenant, the worship of the high places was unavoidable; although even afterwards it still continued as a forbidden cultus, and could not be thoroughly exterminated even by the most righteous kings (Kg1 22:24; Kg2 12:4; Kg2 14:4; Kg2 15:4, Kg2 15:35). |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| Pharaoh - As being a powerful neighbour, whose daughter doubtless was first instructed in, and proselyted to the Jewish religion. It seems, this was designed by God to be a type of Christ, calling his church to himself, and to the true religion, not only out of the Jews, but even out of the Gentile world. City of David - Into David's palace there. The wall - Which though in some sort built by David, yet Solomon is here said to build, either because he made it higher, and stronger, in which sense Nebuchadnezzar is said to have built Babylon, Dan 4:30, or because he built another wall besides the former, for after this time Jerusalem was encompassed with more walls than one. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
Solomon made affinity with Pharaoh - This was no doubt a political measure in order to strengthen his kingdom, and on the same ground he continued his alliance with the king of Tyre; and these were among the most powerful of his neighbors. But should political considerations prevail over express laws of God? God had strictly forbidden his people to form alliances with heathenish women, lest they should lead their hearts away from him into idolatry. Let us hear the law: Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son; for they will turn away thy son from following me, etc. Exo 34:16; Deu 7:3, Deu 7:4. Now Solomon acted in direct opposition to these laws; and perhaps in this alliance were sown those seeds of apostacy from God and goodness in which he so long lived, and in which he so awfully died.
Those who are, at all hazards, his determinate apologists, assume,
1. That Pharaoh's daughter must have been a proselyte to the Jewish religion, else Solomon would not have married her.
2. That God was not displeased with this match.
3. That the book of Song of Solomon, which is supposed to have been his epithalamium, would not have found a place in the sacred canon had the spouse, whom it all along celebrates, been at that time an idolatress.
4. That it is certain we nowhere in Scripture find Solomon blamed for this match. See Dodd.
Now to all this I answer,
1. We have no evidence that the daughter of Pharaoh was a proselyte, no more than that her father was a true believer. It is no more likely that he sought a proselyte here than that he sought them among the Moabites, Hittites, etc., from whom he took many wives.
2. If God's law be positively against such matches, he could not possibly be pleased with this breach of it in Solomon; but his law is positively against them, therefore he was not pleased.
3. That the book of Song of Solomon being found in the sacred canon is, according to some critics, neither a proof that the marriage pleased God, nor that the book was written by Divine inspiration; much less that it celebrates the love between Christ and his Church, or is at all profitable for doctrine, for reproof, or for edification in righteousness.
4. That Solomon is most expressly reproved in Scripture for this very match, is to me very evident from the following passages: Did 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; Neh 13:26. Now it is certain that Pharaoh's daughter was an outlandish woman; and although it be not expressly said that Pharaoh's daughter is here intended, yet there is all reasonable evidence that she is included; and, indeed, the words seem to intimate that she is especially referred to. In Kg1 3:3 it is said, Solomon Loved the Lord, walking in the statutes of David; and Nehemiah says, Did not Solomon, king of Israel, Sin By These Things, who Was Beloved of His God; referring, most probably, to this early part of Solomon's history. But supposing that this is not sufficient evidence that this match is spoken against in Scripture, let us turn to Kg1 11:1, Kg1 11:2, of this book, where the cause of Solomon's apostasy is assigned; and there we read, 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 unto 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. Here the marriage with Pharaoh's daughter is classed most positively with the most exceptionable of his matrimonial and concubinal alliances: as it no doubt had its predisposing share in an apostacy the most unprecedented and disgraceful.
Should I even be singular, I cannot help thinking that the reign of Solomon began rather inauspiciously: even a brother's blood must be shed to cause him to sit securely on his throne, and a most reprehensible alliance, the forerunner of many others of a similar nature, was formed for the same purpose. But we must ever be careful to distinguish between what God has commanded to be done, and what was done through the vile passions and foolish jealousies of men. Solomon had many advantages, and no man ever made a worse use of them. |
10 Hearken [08085], O daughter [01323], and consider [07200], and incline [05186] thine ear [0241]; forget [07911] also thine own people [05971], and thy father's [01] house [01004];
11 So shall the king [04428] greatly desire [0183] thy beauty [03308]: for he is thy Lord [0113]; and worship [07812] thou him.
1 But king [04428] Solomon [08010] loved [0157] many [07227] strange [05237] women [0802], together with the daughter [01323] of Pharaoh [06547], women of the Moabites [04125], Ammonites [05984], Edomites [0130], Zidonians [06722], and Hittites [02850];
2 Of the nations [01471] concerning which the LORD [03068] said [0559] unto the children [01121] of Israel [03478], Ye shall not go in [0935] to them, neither shall they come in [0935] unto you: for surely [0403] they will turn away [05186] your heart [03824] after [0310] their gods [0430]: Solomon [08010] clave [01692] unto these in love [0157].
3 And he had seven [07651] hundred [03967] wives [0802], princesses [08282], and three [07969] hundred [03967] concubines [06370]: and his wives [0802] turned away [05186] his heart [03820].
26 Did not Solomon [08010] king [04428] of Israel [03478] sin [02398] by these things? yet among many [07227] nations [01471] was there no king [04428] like him, who was beloved [0157] of his God [0430], and God [0430] made [05414] him king [04428] over all Israel [03478]: nevertheless even him [01571] did outlandish [05237] women [0802] cause to sin [02398].
1 Now when Ezra [05830] had prayed [06419], and when he had confessed [03034], weeping [01058] and casting himself down [05307] before [06440] the house [01004] of God [0430], there assembled [06908] unto him out of Israel [03478] a very [03966] great [07227] congregation [06951] of men [0582] and women [0802] and children [03206]: for the people [05971] wept [01058] very [07235] sore [01059].
2 And Shechaniah [07935] the son [01121] of Jehiel [03171], one of the sons [01121] of Elam [05867], answered [06030] and said [0559] unto Ezra [05830], We have trespassed [04603] against our God [0430], and have taken [03427] strange [05237] wives [0802] of the people [05971] of the land [0776]: yet now there is [03426] hope [04723] in Israel [03478] concerning this thing.
3 Now therefore let us make [03772] a covenant [01285] with our God [0430] to put away [03318] all the wives [0802], and such as are born [03205] of them, according to the counsel [06098] of my lord [0136], and of those that tremble [02730] at the commandment [04687] of our God [0430]; and let it be done [06213] according to the law [08451].
4 Arise [06965]; for this matter [01697] belongeth unto thee: we also will be with thee: be of good courage [02388], and do [06213] it.
5 Then arose [06965] Ezra [05830], and made the chief [08269] priests [03548], the Levites [03881], and all Israel [03478], to swear [07650] that they should do [06213] according to this word [01697]. And they sware [07650].
6 Then Ezra [05830] rose up [06965] from before [06440] the house [01004] of God [0430], and went [03212] into the chamber [03957] of Johanan [03076] the son [01121] of Eliashib [0475]: and when he came [03212] thither, he did eat [0398] no bread [03899], nor drink [08354] water [04325]: for he mourned [056] because of the transgression [04604] of them that had been carried away [01473].
7 And they made proclamation [05674] [06963] throughout Judah [03063] and Jerusalem [03389] unto all the children [01121] of the captivity [01473], that they should gather themselves together [06908] unto Jerusalem [03389];
8 And that whosoever would not come [0935] within three [07969] days [03117], according to the counsel [06098] of the princes [08269] and the elders [02205], all his substance [07399] should be forfeited [02763], and himself separated [0914] from the congregation [06951] of those that had been carried away [01473].
9 Then all the men [0582] of Judah [03063] and Benjamin [01144] gathered themselves together [06908] unto Jerusalem [03389] within three [07969] days [03117]. It was the ninth [08671] month [02320], on the twentieth [06242] day of the month [02320]; and all the people [05971] sat [03427] in the street [07339] of the house [01004] of God [0430], trembling [07460] because of this matter [01697], and for the great rain [01653].
10 And Ezra [05830] the priest [03548] stood up [06965], and said [0559] unto them, Ye have transgressed [04603], and have taken [03427] strange [05237] wives [0802], to increase [03254] the trespass [0819] of Israel [03478].
3 Neither shalt thou make marriages [02859] with them; thy daughter [01323] thou shalt not give [05414] unto his son [01121], nor his daughter [01323] shalt thou take [03947] unto thy son [01121].
16 And thou take [03947] of their daughters [01323] unto thy sons [01121], and their daughters [01323] go a whoring [02181] after [0310] their gods [0430], and make [02181] thy sons [01121] go a whoring [02181] after [0310] their gods [0430].
18 Do good [03190] in thy good pleasure [07522] unto Zion [06726]: build [01129] thou the walls [02346] of Jerusalem [03389].
11 And Solomon [08010] brought up [05927] the daughter [01323] of Pharaoh [06547] out of the city [05892] of David [01732] unto the house [01004] that he had built [01129] for her: for he said [0559], My wife [0802] shall not dwell [03427] in the house [01004] of David [01732] king [04428] of Israel [03478], because the places are holy [06944], whereunto the ark [0727] of the LORD [03068] hath come [0935].
24 But Pharaoh's [06547] daughter [01323] came up [05927] out of the city [05892] of David [01732] unto her house [01004] which Solomon had built [01129] for her: then did he build [01129] Millo [04407].
8 And his house [01004] where he dwelt [03427] had another [0312] court [02691] within [01004] the porch [0197], which was of the like work [04639]. Solomon [08010] made [06213] also an house [01004] for Pharaoh's [06547] daughter [01323], whom he had taken [03947] to wife, like unto this porch [0197].
2 I would lead [05090] thee, and bring [0935] thee into my mother's [0517] house [01004], who would instruct [03925] me: I would cause thee to drink [08248] of spiced [07544] wine [03196] of the juice [06071] of my pomegranate [07416].
4 It was but a little [04592] that I passed [05674] from them, but I found [04672] him whom my soul [05315] loveth [0157]: I held [0270] him, and would not let him go [07503], until I had brought [0935] him into my mother's [0517] house [01004], and into the chamber [02315] of her that conceived [02029] me.
7 Thou shalt not abhor [08581] an Edomite [0130]; for he is thy brother [0251]: thou shalt not abhor [08581] an Egyptian [04713]; because thou wast a stranger [01616] in his land [0776].
8 The children [01121] that are begotten [03205] of them shall enter [0935] into the congregation [06951] of the LORD [03068] in their third [07992] generation [01755].
1 And Solomon [08010] made affinity [02859] with Pharaoh [06547] king [04428] of Egypt [04714], and took [03947] Pharaoh's [06547] daughter [01323], and brought [0935] her into the city [05892] of David [01732], until he had made an end [03615] of building [01129] his own house [01004], and the house [01004] of the LORD [03068], and the wall [02346] of Jerusalem [03389] round about [05439].
11 And Solomon [08010] brought up [05927] the daughter [01323] of Pharaoh [06547] out of the city [05892] of David [01732] unto the house [01004] that he had built [01129] for her: for he said [0559], My wife [0802] shall not dwell [03427] in the house [01004] of David [01732] king [04428] of Israel [03478], because the places are holy [06944], whereunto the ark [0727] of the LORD [03068] hath come [0935].
24 But Pharaoh's [06547] daughter [01323] came up [05927] out of the city [05892] of David [01732] unto her house [01004] which Solomon had built [01129] for her: then did he build [01129] Millo [04407].
5 For Solomon [08010] went [03212] after [0310] Ashtoreth [06253] the goddess [0430] of the Zidonians [06722], and after [0310] Milcom [04445] the abomination [08251] of the Ammonites [05984].
6 And Solomon [08010] did [06213] evil [07451] in the sight [05869] of the LORD [03068], and went not fully [04390] after [0310] the LORD [03068], as did David [01732] his father [01].
7 Then did Solomon [08010] build [01129] an high place [01116] for Chemosh [03645], the abomination [08251] of Moab [04124], in the hill [02022] that is before [06440] Jerusalem [03389], and for Molech [04432], the abomination [08251] of the children [01121] of Ammon [05983].
25 And it came to pass in the fifth [02549] year [08141] of king [04428] Rehoboam [07346], that Shishak [07895] king [04428] of Egypt [04714] came up [05927] against Jerusalem [03389]:
35 Howbeit the high places [01116] were not removed [05493]: the people [05971] sacrificed [02076] and burned incense [06999] still in the high places [01116]. He built [01129] the higher [05945] gate [08179] of the house [01004] of the LORD [03068].
4 Save that the high places [01116] were not removed [05493]: the people [05971] sacrificed [02076] and burnt incense [06999] still on the high places [01116].
4 Howbeit the high places [01116] were not taken away [05493]: as yet [05750] the people [05971] did sacrifice [02076] and burnt incense [06999] on the high places [01116].
4 And Jehoash [03060] said [0559] to the priests [03548], All the money [03701] of the dedicated things [06944] that is brought [0935] into the house [01004] of the LORD [03068], even the money [03701] of every one [0376] that passeth [05674] the account, the money [03701] that every man [05315] is set at [06187], and all the money [03701] that cometh [05927] into any man's [0376] heart [03820] to bring [0935] into the house [01004] of the LORD [03068],
24 But Zedekiah [06667] the son [01121] of Chenaanah [03668] went near [05066], and smote [05221] Micaiah [04321] on the cheek [03895], and said [0559], Which way [0335] went [05674] the Spirit [07307] of the LORD [03068] from me to speak [01696] unto thee?
3 And keep [08104] the charge [04931] of the LORD [03068] thy God [0430], to walk [03212] in his ways [01870], to keep [08104] his statutes [02708], and his commandments [04687], and his judgments [04941], and his testimonies [05715], as it is written [03789] in the law [08451] of Moses [04872], that thou mayest prosper [07919] in all that thou doest [06213], and whithersoever thou turnest [06437] thyself:
3 And Solomon [08010] loved [0157] the LORD [03068], walking [03212] in the statutes [02708] of David [01732] his father [01]: only he sacrificed [02076] and burnt incense [06999] in high places [01116].
3 What [0376] man [0376] soever there be of the house [01004] of Israel [03478], that killeth [07819] an ox [07794], or lamb [03775], or goat [05795], in the camp [04264], or that killeth [07819] it out [02351] of the camp [04264],
2 And Asa [0609] did [06213] that which was good [02896] and right [03477] in the eyes [05869] of the LORD [03068] his God [0430]:
15 Moreover the altar [04196] that was at Bethel [01008], and the high place [01116] which Jeroboam [03379] the son [01121] of Nebat [05028], who made Israel [03478] to sin [02398], had made [06213], both that altar [04196] and the high place [01116] he brake down [05422], and burned [08313] the high place [01116], and stamped [01854] it small to powder [06083], and burned [08313] the grove [0842].
8 And he brought [0935] all the priests [03548] out of the cities [05892] of Judah [03063], and defiled [02930] the high places [01116] where the priests [03548] had burned incense [06999], from Geba [01387] to Beersheba [0884], and brake down [05422] the high places [01116] of the gates [08179] that were in the entering in [06607] of the gate [08179] of Joshua [03091] the governor [08269] of the city [05892], which were on a man's [0376] left hand [08040] at the gate [08179] of the city [05892].
3 For he built up [01129] again [07725] the high places [01116] which Hezekiah [02396] his father [01] had destroyed [06]; and he reared up [06965] altars [04196] for Baal [01168], and made [06213] a grove [0842], as did [06213] Ahab [0256] king [04428] of Israel [03478]; and worshipped [07812] all the host [06635] of heaven [08064], and served [05647] them.
23 For they also built [01129] them high places [01116], and images [04676], and groves [0842], on every high [01364] hill [01389], and under every green [07488] tree [06086].
7 Then did Solomon [08010] build [01129] an high place [01116] for Chemosh [03645], the abomination [08251] of Moab [04124], in the hill [02022] that is before [06440] Jerusalem [03389], and for Molech [04432], the abomination [08251] of the children [01121] of Ammon [05983].
19 And all the houses [01004] also of the high places [01116] that were in the cities [05892] of Samaria [08111], which the kings [04428] of Israel [03478] had made [06213] to provoke the LORD to anger [03707], Josiah [02977] took away [05493], and did [06213] to them according to all the acts [04639] that he had done [06213] in Bethel [01008].
32 So they feared [03373] the LORD [03068], and made [06213] unto themselves of the lowest [07098] of them priests [03548] of the high places [01116], which sacrificed [06213] for them in the houses [01004] of the high places [01116].
29 Howbeit every nation [01471] made [06213] gods [0430] of their own, and put [03240] them in the houses [01004] of the high places [01116] which the Samaritans [08118] had made [06213], every nation [01471] in their cities [05892] wherein they dwelt [03427].
32 For the saying [01697] which he cried [07121] by the word [01697] of the LORD [03068] against the altar [04196] in Bethel [01008], and against all the houses [01004] of the high places [01116] which are in the cities [05892] of Samaria [08111], shall surely come to pass.
3 And keep [08104] the charge [04931] of the LORD [03068] thy God [0430], to walk [03212] in his ways [01870], to keep [08104] his statutes [02708], and his commandments [04687], and his judgments [04941], and his testimonies [05715], as it is written [03789] in the law [08451] of Moses [04872], that thou mayest prosper [07919] in all that thou doest [06213], and whithersoever thou turnest [06437] thyself:
46 So the king [04428] commanded [06680] Benaiah [01141] the son [01121] of Jehoiada [03077]; which went out [03318], and fell [06293] upon him, that he died [04191]. And the kingdom [04467] was established [03559] in the hand [03027] of Solomon [08010].
2 Only the people [05971] sacrificed [02076] in high places [01116], because there was no house [01004] built [01129] unto the name [08034] of the LORD [03068], until those days [03117].
27 And this was the cause [01697] that he lifted up [07311] his hand [03027] against the king [04428]: Solomon [08010] built [01129] Millo [04407], and repaired [05462] the breaches [06556] of the city [05892] of David [01732] his father [01].
1 Then Solomon [08010] assembled [06950] the elders [02205] of Israel [03478], and all the heads [07218] of the tribes [04294], the chief [05387] of the fathers [01] of the children [01121] of Israel [03478], unto king [04428] Solomon [08010] in Jerusalem [03389], that they might bring up [05927] the ark [0727] of the covenant [01285] of the LORD [03068] out of the city [05892] of David [01732], which is Zion [06726].
24 But Pharaoh's [06547] daughter [01323] came up [05927] out of the city [05892] of David [01732] unto her house [01004] which Solomon had built [01129] for her: then did he build [01129] Millo [04407].
11 And Solomon [08010] brought up [05927] the daughter [01323] of Pharaoh [06547] out of the city [05892] of David [01732] unto the house [01004] that he had built [01129] for her: for he said [0559], My wife [0802] shall not dwell [03427] in the house [01004] of David [01732] king [04428] of Israel [03478], because the places are holy [06944], whereunto the ark [0727] of the LORD [03068] hath come [0935].
1 But king [04428] Solomon [08010] loved [0157] many [07227] strange [05237] women [0802], together with the daughter [01323] of Pharaoh [06547], women of the Moabites [04125], Ammonites [05984], Edomites [0130], Zidonians [06722], and Hittites [02850];
1 But king [04428] Solomon [08010] loved [0157] many [07227] strange [05237] women [0802], together with the daughter [01323] of Pharaoh [06547], women of the Moabites [04125], Ammonites [05984], Edomites [0130], Zidonians [06722], and Hittites [02850];
10 When thou goest forth [03318] to war [04421] against thine enemies [0341], and the LORD [03068] thy God [0430] hath delivered [05414] them into thine hands [03027], and thou hast taken [07617] them captive [07628],
3 Neither shalt thou make marriages [02859] with them; thy daughter [01323] thou shalt not give [05414] unto his son [01121], nor his daughter [01323] shalt thou take [03947] unto thy son [01121].
16 And thou take [03947] of their daughters [01323] unto thy sons [01121], and their daughters [01323] go a whoring [02181] after [0310] their gods [0430], and make [02181] thy sons [01121] go a whoring [02181] after [0310] their gods [0430].
42 And the time [03117] that Solomon [08010] reigned [04427] in Jerusalem [03389] over all Israel [03478] was forty [0705] years [08141].
43 And Solomon [08010] slept [07901] with his fathers [01], and was buried [06912] in the city [05892] of David [01732] his father [01]: and Rehoboam [07346] his son [01121] reigned [04427] in his stead.
21 And Rehoboam [07346] the son [01121] of Solomon [08010] reigned [04427] in Judah [03063]. Rehoboam [07346] was forty [0705] and one [0259] years [08141] old [01121] when he began to reign [04427], and he reigned [04427] seventeen [07651] [06240] years [08141] in Jerusalem [03389], the city [05892] which the LORD [03068] did choose [0977] out of all the tribes [07626] of Israel [03478], to put [07760] his name [08034] there. And his mother's [0517] name [08034] was Naamah [05279] an Ammonitess [05985].
25 And it came to pass in the fifth [02549] year [08141] of king [04428] Rehoboam [07346], that Shishak [07895] king [04428] of Egypt [04714] came up [05927] against Jerusalem [03389]:
26 And he took away [03947] the treasures [0214] of the house [01004] of the LORD [03068], and the treasures [0214] of the king's [04428] house [01004]; he even took away [03947] all: and he took away [03947] all the shields [04043] of gold [02091] which Solomon [08010] had made [06213].
46 So the king [04428] commanded [06680] Benaiah [01141] the son [01121] of Jehoiada [03077]; which went out [03318], and fell [06293] upon him, that he died [04191]. And the kingdom [04467] was established [03559] in the hand [03027] of Solomon [08010].
1 And Solomon [08010] made affinity [02859] with Pharaoh [06547] king [04428] of Egypt [04714], and took [03947] Pharaoh's [06547] daughter [01323], and brought [0935] her into the city [05892] of David [01732], until he had made an end [03615] of building [01129] his own house [01004], and the house [01004] of the LORD [03068], and the wall [02346] of Jerusalem [03389] round about [05439].
30 The king [04430] spake [06032], and said [0560], Is not [03809] this [01932] [01668] great [07229] Babylon [0895], that I [0576] have built [01124] for the house [01005] of the kingdom [04437] by the might [08632] of my power [02632], and for the honour [03367] of my majesty [01923]?
2 Of the nations [01471] concerning which the LORD [03068] said [0559] unto the children [01121] of Israel [03478], Ye shall not go in [0935] to them, neither shall they come in [0935] unto you: for surely [0403] they will turn away [05186] your heart [03824] after [0310] their gods [0430]: Solomon [08010] clave [01692] unto these in love [0157].
1 But king [04428] Solomon [08010] loved [0157] many [07227] strange [05237] women [0802], together with the daughter [01323] of Pharaoh [06547], women of the Moabites [04125], Ammonites [05984], Edomites [0130], Zidonians [06722], and Hittites [02850];
3 And Solomon [08010] loved [0157] the LORD [03068], walking [03212] in the statutes [02708] of David [01732] his father [01]: only he sacrificed [02076] and burnt incense [06999] in high places [01116].
26 Did not Solomon [08010] king [04428] of Israel [03478] sin [02398] by these things? yet among many [07227] nations [01471] was there no king [04428] like him, who was beloved [0157] of his God [0430], and God [0430] made [05414] him king [04428] over all Israel [03478]: nevertheless even him [01571] did outlandish [05237] women [0802] cause to sin [02398].
4 For they will turn away [05493] thy son [01121] from following [0310] me, that they may serve [05647] other [0312] gods [0430]: so will the anger [0639] of the LORD [03068] be kindled [02734] against you, and destroy [08045] thee suddenly [04118].
3 Neither shalt thou make marriages [02859] with them; thy daughter [01323] thou shalt not give [05414] unto his son [01121], nor his daughter [01323] shalt thou take [03947] unto thy son [01121].
16 And thou take [03947] of their daughters [01323] unto thy sons [01121], and their daughters [01323] go a whoring [02181] after [0310] their gods [0430], and make [02181] thy sons [01121] go a whoring [02181] after [0310] their gods [0430].