1 Kings 11:1 Cross References - ACV

¹ Now king Solomon loved many foreign women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites,

² that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair. And they took to them wives of all that they chose. ³ And LORD said, My Spirit shall not abide in man forever, for he also is flesh. Yet shall his days be a hundred and twenty years. ⁴ The giants were on the earth in those days. And also after that, when the sons of God came to the daughters of men, and they bore sons to them, the same were the mighty men who were of old, the men of renown. ⁵ And LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

¹⁸ And thou shall not take a wife in addition to her sister, to be a rival to her, to uncover her nakedness, besides the other in her life-time.

¹⁷ Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not away. Neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.

¹ 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 LORD, and the wall of Jerusalem round about.

⁸ And so he did for all his foreign wives, who burnt incense and sacrificed to their gods.

²³ In those days also I saw the Jews who had married women of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab. ²⁴ And their sons spoke half in the speech of Ashdod, and could not speak in the Jews' language, but according to the language of each people. ²⁵ And 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 to their sons, nor take their daughters for your sons, or for yourselves. ²⁶ Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? Yet there was no king like him among many nations, and he was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel. Nevertheless foreign women caused even him to sin. ²⁷ Shall we then hearken to you to do all this great evil, to trespass against our God in marrying foreign women?

¹⁶ to deliver thee from the interloping woman, even from the stranger who flatters with her words,

⁸ Remove thy way far from her, and do not come near the door of her house, ⁹ lest thou give thine honor to others, and thy years to the cruel, ¹⁰ lest strangers be filled with thy strength, and thy labors be in the house of an alien, ¹¹ and thou mourn at thy latter end when thy flesh and thy body are consumed, ¹² and say, How I have hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof. ¹³ Neither have I obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined my ear to those who instructed me! ¹⁴ I was almost in all evil in the midst of the assembly and congregation. ¹⁵ Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well. ¹⁶ Should thy springs be dispersed abroad, and streams of water in the streets? ¹⁷ Let them be for thyself alone, and not for strangers with thee. ¹⁸ Let thy fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of thy youth: ¹⁹ a loving hind and a pleasant doe. Let her breasts satisfy thee at all times, and be thou ravished always with her love. ²⁰ For why should thou, my son, be ravished with an interloping woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?

²⁴ to keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the stranger's tongue.

⁵ that they may keep thee from the interloping woman, from the stranger who flatters with her words.

¹⁴ The mouth of interloping women is a deep pit. He who is abhorred of LORD shall fall in it.

³³ Thine eyes shall behold strange things, and thy heart shall utter perverse things.