1 Kings 11:2

The Holy Bible, Berean Study Bible

Contextual Overview

¹King Solomon, however, loved many foreign women along with the daughter of Pharaoh-women of Moab, Ammon, Edom, and Sidon, as well as Hittite women. ²These women were from the nations about which the LORD had told the Israelites, "You must not intermarry with them, for surely they will turn your hearts after their gods." Yet Solomon clung to these women in love.³He had seven hundred wives of royal birth and three hundred concubines-and his wives turned his heart away. ⁴For when Solomon grew old, his wives turned his heart after other gods, and he was not wholeheartedly devoted to the LORD his God, as his father David had been. ⁵Solomon followed Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians and Molech the abomination of the Ammonites. ⁶So Solomon did evil in the sight of the LORD-and unlike his father David, he did not follow the LORD completely. ⁷At that time on a hill east of Jerusalem, Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab and for Molech the abomination of the Ammonites. ⁸He did the same for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods.

Bible Verse Review
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Ye shall not go in: Exodus 23:32, Exodus 23:33, Exodus 34:16, Deuteronomy 7:3, Deuteronomy 7:4, Joshua 23:12, Joshua 23:13, Ezra 9:12, Ezra 10:2-17, Malachi 2:11

surely: 1 Kings 16:31-33, Numbers 25:1-3, Judges 3:6, Judges 3:7, 2 Chronicles 21:6, 2 Corinthians 6:14-16

Solomon: Genesis 2:24, Genesis 34:3, Judges 16:4-21, 2 Chronicles 19:2, Psalms 139:21, Romans 1:32, Romans 12:9, 1 Corinthians 15:33, Revelation 2:4

Reciprocal: Genesis 34:8 - The soul Deuteronomy 30:17 - heart Ruth 1:4 - wives 1 Kings 11:4 - his wives 1 Kings 11:9 - his heart Proverbs 7:26 - General Isaiah 2:6 - and they Matthew 19:5 - cleave

Cross-References

Genesis 10:10
His kingdom began in Babylon, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

Genesis 11:9
That is why it is called Babel, for there the LORD confused the language of the whole world, and from that place the LORD scattered them over the face of all the earth.

Genesis 13:11
So Lot chose the whole plain of the Jordan for himself and set out toward the east. And Abram and Lot parted company.

Genesis 14:1
In those days Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of Goiim

Isaiah 11:11
On that day the Lord will extend His hand a second time to recover the remnant of His people from Assyria, from Egypt, from Pathros, from Cush, from Elam, from Shinar, from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.

Daniel 1:2
And the Lord delivered into his hand Jehoiakim king of Judah, along with some of the articles from the house of God. He carried these off to the land of Shinar, to the house of his god, where he put them into the treasury of his god.

Zechariah 5:11
"To build a house for it in the land of Shinar," he told me. "And when it is ready, the basket will be set there on its pedestal."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Of the nations concerning which the Lord said unto the children of Israel, ye shall not go in to them, neither shall they come in unto you,.... That is, they should not intermarry with one another; this is to be understood of the last mentioned, the Hittites, who were one of the seven nations this law respected, Deuteronomy 7:1

for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods; which is the reason given for the making the above law, and was sadly verified in Solomon:

Solomon clave unto these in love; he not only took them, but kept them, and expressed a strong affection for them.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Ye shall not go in unto them ... - These words are not a quotation from the Pentateuch. They merely give the general meaning of the two passages prohibiting intermarriage with neighboring idolators (marginal references). Strictly speaking, the prohibition in the Law of intermarriage was confined to the Canaanite nations. But the principle of the prohibition applied equally to the Moabites, Ammonites, and Edomites who all bordered on the holy land; and was so applied by Ezra Ezra 9:1 and Nehemiah Nehemiah 13:23.