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Contemporary English Version

1 Kings 11:6

Solomon's father had obeyed the Lord with all his heart, but Solomon disobeyed and did what the Lord hated.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Backsliders;   Character;   Fellowship;   Instability;   Molech;   Obedience;   Perfection;   Polygamy;   Rulers;   Solomon;   Wife;   Women;   Thompson Chain Reference - Solomon;   The Topic Concordance - Marriage;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Alliance and Society with the Enemies of God;   Idolatry;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Ammonites;   Hebrews;   Olives, Mount of;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Ashtoreth, ashtaroth;   King;   Marriage;   Solomon;   Treaty;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Leadership;   Woman;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Solomon;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Abomination;   Athaliah;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Ammonites;   High Place;   Kings, 1 and 2;   Moab and the Moabite Stone;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Israel;   Phoenicia, PhNicians;   Solomon;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Mount olivet;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Idolatry;   Kings;   Solomon;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Sol'omon;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Kingdom of Israel;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Gods;   Temple;   Woman;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Alliances;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Solomon did what was evil in the Lord’s sight, and unlike his father David, he did not remain loyal to the Lord.
Hebrew Names Version
Shlomo did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, and didn't go fully after the LORD, as did David his father.
King James Version
And Solomon did evil in the sight of the Lord , and went not fully after the Lord , as did David his father.
English Standard Version
So Solomon did what was evil in the sight of the Lord and did not wholly follow the Lord , as David his father had done.
New Century Version
So Solomon did what the Lord said was wrong and did not follow the Lord completely as his father David had done.
New English Translation
Solomon did evil in the Lord 's sight; he did not remain loyal to the Lord , like his father David had.
Amplified Bible
Solomon did evil [things] in the sight of the LORD, and did not follow the LORD fully, as his father David had done.
New American Standard Bible
So Solomon did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, and did not follow the LORD fully, as his father David had done.
Geneva Bible (1587)
So Salomon wrought wickednesse in the sight of the Lord, but continued not to followe the Lord, as did Dauid his father.
Legacy Standard Bible
And Solomon did what was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and did not follow Yahweh fully, as David his father had done.
Complete Jewish Bible
Thus Shlomo did what was evil in Adonai 's view and did not fully follow Adonai , as David his father had done.
Darby Translation
And Solomon did evil in the sight of Jehovah, and followed not fully Jehovah, as David his father.
Easy-to-Read Version
So Solomon did what the Lord said was wrong. He did not follow the Lord completely as his father David did.
George Lamsa Translation
And Solomon did evil in the sight of the LORD, and went not fully after the LORD, as did David his father.
Good News Translation
He sinned against the Lord and was not true to him as his father David had been.
Lexham English Bible
So Solomon did evil in the eyes of Yahweh and did not fully follow after Yahweh as David his father.
Literal Translation
and Solomon did evil in the sight of Jehovah, and did not go fully after Jehovah like his father David.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And Salomon dyd yt which displeased the LORDE, and folowed not ye LORDE to ye vttemost as dyd his father Dauid.
American Standard Version
And Solomon did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, and went not fully after Jehovah, as did David his father.
Bible in Basic English
And Solomon did evil in the eyes of the Lord, not walking in the Lord's ways with all his heart as David his father did.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And Solomon wrought wickednesse in the sight of the Lorde, and folowed not the Lorde perfectly, as dyd Dauid his father.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And Solomon did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, and went not fully after the LORD, as did David his father.
King James Version (1611)
And Solomon did euill in the sight of the Lord, and went not fully after the Lord, as did Dauid his father.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And Solomon did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord: he went not after the Lord, as David his father. And the strange women turned away his heart after their gods.
English Revised Version
And Solomon did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, and went not fully after the LORD, as did David his father.
Berean Standard Bible
So Solomon did evil in the sight of the LORD-and unlike his father David, he did not follow the LORD completely.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and Salomon dide that, that pleside not bifor the Lord, and he fillide not that he suede the Lord, as Dauid, his fadir, dide.
Young's Literal Translation
and Solomon doth the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah, and hath not been fully after Jehovah, like David his father.
Update Bible Version
And Solomon did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and did not go fully after Yahweh, as did David his father.
Webster's Bible Translation
And Solomon did evil in the sight of the LORD, and went not fully after the LORD, as [did] David his father.
World English Bible
Solomon did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and didn't go fully after Yahweh, as did David his father.
New King James Version
Solomon did evil in the sight of the LORD, and did not fully follow the LORD, as did his father David.
New Living Translation
In this way, Solomon did what was evil in the Lord 's sight; he refused to follow the Lord completely, as his father, David, had done.
New Life Bible
Solomon did what was sinful in the eyes of the Lord. He did not follow the Lord with all his heart, as his father David had done.
New Revised Standard
So Solomon did what was evil in the sight of the Lord , and did not completely follow the Lord , as his father David had done.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Thus Solomon did the thing that was wicked in the eyes of Yahweh, - and went not fully after Yahweh, as did David his father.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And Solomon did that which was not pleasing before the Lord, and did not fully follow the Lord, as David, his father.
Revised Standard Version
So Solomon did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, and did not wholly follow the LORD, as David his father had done.
THE MESSAGE
Solomon openly defied God ; he did not follow in his father David's footsteps. He went on to build a sacred shrine to Chemosh, the horrible god of Moab, and to Molech, the horrible god of the Ammonites, on a hill just east of Jerusalem. He built similar shrines for all his foreign wives, who then polluted the countryside with the smoke and stench of their sacrifices.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Solomon did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, and did not follow the LORD fully, as David his father had done.

Contextual Overview

1The Lord did not want the Israelites to worship foreign gods, so he had warned them not to marry anyone who was not from Israel. Solomon loved his wife, the daughter of the king of Egypt. But he also loved some women from Moab, Ammon, and Edom, and others from Sidon and the land of the Hittites. 3Seven hundred of his wives were daughters of kings, but he also married three hundred other women. As Solomon got older, some of his wives led him to worship their gods. He wasn't like his father David, who had worshiped only the Lord God. 5 Solomon also worshiped Astarte the goddess of Sidon, and Milcom the disgusting god of Ammon. 6 Solomon's father had obeyed the Lord with all his heart, but Solomon disobeyed and did what the Lord hated. 7 Solomon built shrines on a hill east of Jerusalem to worship Chemosh the disgusting god of Moab, and Molech the disgusting god of Ammon. 8 In fact, he built a shrine for each of his foreign wives, so all of them could burn incense and offer sacrifices to their own gods.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

went not fully after: Heb. fulfilled not after, Numbers 14:24, Joshua 14:8, Joshua 14:14,*Heb:

Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 23:5 - Although 1 Kings 9:4 - And if thou 1 Kings 11:4 - his heart 2 Chronicles 17:3 - he walked Psalms 89:32 - General

Cross-References

Genesis 3:22
The Lord said, "These people now know the difference between right and wrong, just as we do. But they must not be allowed to eat fruit from the tree that lets them live forever."
Genesis 6:5
The Lord saw how bad the people on earth were and that everything they thought and planned was evil.
Genesis 8:21
The smell of the burning offering pleased God, and he said: Never again will I punish the earth for the sinful things its people do. All of them have evil thoughts from the time they are young, but I will never destroy everything that breathes, as I did this time.
Genesis 9:19
All people on earth are descendants of Noah's three sons.
Genesis 11:1
At first everyone spoke the same language,
1 Kings 18:27
At noon, Elijah began making fun of them. "Pray louder!" he said. "Baal must be a god. Maybe he's day-dreaming or using the toilet or traveling somewhere. Or maybe he's asleep, and you have to wake him up."
Ecclesiastes 11:9
Be cheerful and enjoy life while you are young! Do what you want and find pleasure in what you see. But don't forget that God will judge you for everything you do.
Luke 1:51
The Lord has used his powerful arm to scatter those who are proud.
Acts 17:26
From one person God made all nations who live on earth, and he decided when and where every nation would be.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Solomon did evil in the sight of the Lord,.... As idolatry is, nothing more provoking to him:

and went not fully after the Lord, as did David his father; for though he did not relinquish the worship of the true God, and the service of the temple, yet inasmuch as he worshipped other gods besides, or connived at the worship of them, he did not wholly, and constantly, and solely serve the Lord, as his father did.


 
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