1 Kings 11:1
Good News Translation
Solomon loved many foreign women. Besides the daughter of the king of Egypt he married Hittite women and women from Moab, Ammon, Edom, and Sidon.

New Revised Standard Version
King Solomon loved many foreign women along with the daughter of Pharaoh: Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, and Hittite women,

New American Bible
King Solomon loved many foreign women besides the daughter of Pharaoh—Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, Hittites—

Douay-Rheims Bible
And king Solomon loved many strange women, besides the daughter of Pharao, and women of Moab, and of Ammon, and of Edom, and of Sidon, and of the Hethites:

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And king Solomon loved many strange women, besides the daughter of Pharao, and women of Moab, and of Ammon, and of Edom, and of Sidon, and of the Hethites:

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1 Kings 11:8 And he did in this manner for all his wives that were strangers, who burnt incense, and offered sacrifice to their gods.

Genesis 6:2-5 The sons of God seeing the daughters of men, that they were fair, took to themselves wives of all which they chose. . . .

Deuteronomy 17:17 He shall not have many wives, that may allure his mind, nor immense sums of silver and gold.

Nehemiah 13:23-27 In those days also I saw Jews that married wives, women of Azotus, and of Ammon, and of Moab. . . .

Proverbs 2:16 And forsaketh the guide of her youth,

Proverbs 5:8-20 Give not thy honour to strangers, and thy years to the cruel. . . .

Proverbs 6:24 Let not thy heart covet her beauty, be not caught with her winks:

Proverbs 7:5 For I looked out of the window of my house through the lattice,

Proverbs 22:14 The mouth of a strange woman is a deep pit: he whom the Lord is angry with, shall fall into it.

Proverbs 23:33 Thy eyes shall behold strange women, and thy heart shall utter perverse things.

together with.

1 Kings 3:1 And the kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon, and he made affinity with Pharao, the king of Egypt: for he took his 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.

Leviticus 18:18 Thou shalt not take thy wife's sister for a harlot, to rival her: neither shalt thou discover her nakedness, while she is yet living.

Context
Solomon's Foreign Wives
1And king Solomon loved many strange women, besides the daughter of Pharao, and women of Moab, and of Ammon, and of Edom, and of Sidon, and of the Hethites:2Of the nations concerning which the Lord said to the children of Israel: You shall not go in unto them, neither shall any of them come into yours: for they will most certainly turn away your hearts to follow their gods. And to these was Solomon joined with a most ardent love.…
Cross References
Exodus 34:16
Neither shalt thou take of their daughters a wife for thy son, lest after they themselves have committed fornication, they make thy sons also to commit fornication with their gods.

Deuteronomy 17:17
He shall not have many wives, that may allure his mind, nor immense sums of silver and gold.

1 Kings 16:31
Nor was it enough for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam, the son of Nabat: but he also took to wife Jezabel, daughter of Ethbaal, king of the Sidonians. And he went, and served Baal, and adored him.

Ezra 10:44
All these had taken strange wives, and there were among them women that had borne children.

Nehemiah 13:23
In those days also I saw Jews that married wives, women of Azotus, and of Ammon, and of Moab.

Nehemiah 13:26
Did not Solomon king of Israel sin in this kind of thing: and surely among many nations, there was not a king like him, and he was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel: and yet women of other countries brought even him to sin.

Proverbs 31:3
Give not thy substance to women, and thy riches to destroy kings.

1 Kings 10:29
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