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Green's Literal Translation

1 Kings 11:8

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

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Backsliders;   Character;   Disobedience to God;   Fellowship;   Instability;   Molech;   Polygamy;   Rulers;   Solomon;   Wife;   Women;   The Topic Concordance - Marriage;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Alliance and Society with the Enemies of God;   High Places;   Idolatry;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Marriage;   Solomon;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Kings, First and Second, Theology of;   Leadership;   Woman;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Solomon;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Adventuress;   Ammonites;   High Place;   Kings, 1 and 2;   Moab and the Moabite Stone;   Solomon;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Israel;   Solomon;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - High Place;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - 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®
He did the same for all his foreign wives, who were burning incense and offering sacrifices to their gods.
Hebrew Names Version
So did he for all his foreign wives, who burnt incense and sacrificed to their gods.
King James Version
And likewise did he for all his strange wives, which burnt incense and sacrificed unto their gods.
English Standard Version
And so he did for all his foreign wives, who made offerings and sacrificed to their gods.
New Century Version
Solomon did the same thing for all his foreign wives so they could burn incense and offer sacrifices to their gods.
New English Translation
He built high places for all his foreign wives so they could burn incense and make sacrifices to their gods.
Amplified Bible
And he did the same for all of his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods.
New American Standard Bible
He also did the same for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And so did he for all his outlandish wiues, which burnt incense and offered vnto their gods.
Legacy Standard Bible
Thus also he did for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods.
Contemporary English Version
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.
Complete Jewish Bible
This is what he did for all his foreign wives, who then offered and sacrificed to their gods.
Darby Translation
And so he did for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods.
Easy-to-Read Version
Solomon did the same thing for all of his other foreign wives who burned incense and gave sacrifices to their gods.
George Lamsa Translation
And likewise did he for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods.
Good News Translation
He also built places of worship where all his foreign wives could burn incense and offer sacrifices to their own gods.
Lexham English Bible
Thus he did for all of his foreign wives, offering incense and sacrificing to their gods.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Thus dyd Salomon for all his outladish wyues, which brent incense, and offred vnto their goddes.
American Standard Version
And so did he for all his foreign wives, who burnt incense and sacrificed unto their gods.
Bible in Basic English
And so he did for all his strange wives, who made offerings with burning of perfumes to their gods.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And lykewyse dyd he for all his outlandishe wyues, which burnt cense and offered vnto their gods.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And so did he for all his foreign wives, who offered and sacrificed unto their gods.
King James Version (1611)
And likewise did hee for all his strange wiues, which burnt incense and sacrificed vnto their gods.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And thus he acted towards all his strange wives, who burnt incense and sacrificed to their idols.
English Revised Version
And so did he for all his strange wives, which burnt incense and sacrificed unto their gods.
Berean Standard Bible
He did the same for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And bi this maner he dide to alle hise alien wyues, that brenten encencis, and offriden to her goddis.
Young's Literal Translation
and so he hath done for all his strange women, who are perfuming and sacrificing to their gods.
Update Bible Version
And so he did for all his foreign wives, who burnt incense and sacrificed to their gods.
Webster's Bible Translation
And likewise did he for all his foreign wives, who burnt incense and sacrificed to their gods.
World English Bible
So did he for all his foreign wives, who burnt incense and sacrificed to their gods.
New King James Version
And he did likewise for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods.
New Living Translation
Solomon built such shrines for all his foreign wives to use for burning incense and sacrificing to their gods.
New Life Bible
He did the same for all his wives from other nations, who burned special perfume and gave gifts to their gods.
New Revised Standard
He did the same for all his foreign wives, who offered incense and sacrificed to their gods.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and, thus, did he for all his foreign wives, - who burned incense and offered sacrifices unto their gods.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And he did in this manner for all his wives that were strangers, who burnt incense, and offered sacrifice to their gods.
Revised Standard Version
And so he did for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Thus also he did for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods.

Contextual Overview

1 And King Solomon loved many foreign women, even the daughter of Pharaoh, Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, Hittites; 2 of the nations which Jehovah said to the sons of Israel, You shall not go in to them, and they shall not go in to you; they shall turn aside your heart after their gods; Solomon clung to these in love. 3 And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines; and his wives turned away his heart. 4 And it happened, at the time Solomon was old, his wives turned away his heart after other gods, and his heart was not perfect with Jehovah his God, like the heart of his father David. 5 And Solomon went after Ashtoreth, goddess of the Sidonians, and after Milcom, the abomination of the Ammonites; 6 and Solomon did evil in the sight of Jehovah, and did not go fully after Jehovah like his father David. 7 Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, in the hill that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the abomination of the sons of Ammon; 8 and so he did for all his foreign wives, who burnt incense and sacrificed to their gods.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

all his strange wives: 1 Kings 11:1, Ezekiel 16:22-29, Hosea 4:11, Hosea 4:12, 1 Corinthians 10:11, 1 Corinthians 10:12, 1 Corinthians 10:20-22

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 15:12 - all the idols 2 Chronicles 14:3 - For he took Jeremiah 32:31 - this city

Cross-References

Genesis 10:25
And two sons were born to Eber; the name of the one was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided; and his brother's name was Joktan.
Genesis 10:32
These were the families of the sons of Noah, by their generations, in their nations. And from these the nations were divided in the earth after the flood.
Genesis 11:4
And they said, Come, let us build a city and a tower with its head in the heavens, and make a name for ourselves, that we not be scattered on the face of all the earth.
Genesis 11:9
On account of this its name is called Babel, because Jehovah confused the language of all the earth there. And Jehovah scattered them abroad from there on the face of all the earth.
Genesis 49:7
Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel. I will divide them in Jacob, and I will scatter them in Israel.
Deuteronomy 32:8
when the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance; when He separated the sons of Adam, He set up the bounds of the peoples, according to the number of the sons of Israel.
Luke 1:51
He performed mightily with His arm; He scattered proud ones in the thought of their heart.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And likewise did he for all his strange wives,.... That is, built high places for their idols, or suffered them to be built; for when he had done it for one, he could not refuse it to another, without greatly disobliging them; even for as many of them,

which burnt incense, and sacrificed unto their gods; the gods of the countries from whence they came, and in the worship of which they had been brought up: this shows that the best and wisest of men, when left to themselves, may do the worst and most foolish of all things; as nothing can be more so than the worship of such wretched deities.


 
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