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1 Kings 11:1
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1 Kings 11:1
1BUT king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites;
1¶ But King Solomon loued *many strange women, ( ‖together with y e daughter of Pharaoh) women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians & Hittites:
- Or, besids
- Deut. 17.17. ecclus. 49.19.
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1 Kings 11:1
However; introducing a contrast with what precedes.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat, Bible Words Glossary (1893) · KJV usage
A sovereign ruler; one who reigns over a people or realm.
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Having the affection of any one.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
A great number; numerous persons or things.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Foreign; belonging to another country. Wonderful; causing surprise; exciting curiosity.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage
In one place, company, time, purpose, or united condition.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Members of the people descended from Ammon.
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Open the full verse study17Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.
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Open the full verse study24To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.
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Open the full verse study8And likewise did he for all his strange wives, which burnt incense and sacrificed unto their gods.
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Open the full verse study23¶ In those days also saw I Jews that had married wives of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab:
24And their children spake half in the speech of Ashdod, and could not speak in the Jews’ language, but according to the language of each people.
25And I contended with them, and cursed them, and smote certain of them, and plucked off their hair, and made them swear by God, saying, Ye shall not give your daughters unto their sons, nor take their daughters unto your sons, or for yourselves.
26Did 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.
27Shall we then hearken unto you to do all this great evil, to transgress against our God in marrying strange wives?
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Open the full verse study16To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;
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Open the full verse study5That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.
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Open the full verse study1AND 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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Open the full verse study14The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the Lord shall fall therein.
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Open the full verse study8Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:
9Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel:
10Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger;
11And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,
12And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;
13And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!
14I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.
15¶ Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.
16Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets.
17Let them be only thine own, and not strangers’ with thee.
18Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.
19Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.
20And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
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Open the full verse study33Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things.
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Open the full verse study18Neither shalt thou take a wife to her sister, to vex her, to uncover her nakedness, beside the other in her life time.
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Open the full verse study2That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
3And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.
4There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
5¶ And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
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