Old Testament · SCRIPTURE
1 Kings 11:3
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He had seven hundred wives of royal birth and three hundred concubines—and his wives turned his heart away.
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And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines: and his wives turned away his heart.
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He had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines. His wives turned his heart away.
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And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines; and his wives turned away his heart.
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1 Kings 11
1 King Solomon, however, loved many foreign women along with the daughter of Pharaoh—women of Moab, Ammon, Edom, and Sidon, as well as Hittite women.
2 These women were from the nations about which the LORD had told the Israelites, “You must not intermarry with them, for surely they will turn your hearts after their gods.” Yet Solomon clung to these women in love.
3 He had seven hundred wives of royal birth and three hundred concubines—and his wives turned his heart away.
4 For when Solomon grew old, his wives turned his heart after other gods, and he was not wholeheartedly devoted to the LORD his God, as his father David had been.
5 Solomon followed Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians and Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.
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