strange. foreign. Note the frequent reference to these in the Book of Proverbs. Note the three steps in Solomon's fall: wealth, weapons, and women. Compare Deuteronomy 17:16, where note the items in which Solomon failed.
CHAPTER XI _Solomon's attachment to strange women, and consequent idolatry_, 1, 2. _Number of his wives and concubines_, 3. _In his old age they turn away his heart from God_, 4. _He builds templ...
In noticing successively Solomon’s excessive accumulation of silver and gold 1 Kings 10:14, his multiplication of horses 1 Kings 10:26, and his multiplication of wives, the writer has in mind the warn...
7. SOLOMON'S FAILURE: JUDGMENT ANNOUNCED AND THE BEGINNING OF DISRUPTION CHAPTER 11 _ 1. Solomon's polygamy and departure from God (1 Kings 11:1)_ 2. Hadad the Edomite (1 Kings 11:14) 3. Rezon the...
SIN OF SOLOMON, AND THE ADVERSARIES RAISED UP IN CONSEQUENCE. From various differences in the arrangement of the earlier verses in the LXX and Heb., it has been supposed that in its original form the...
1 Kings 11:1-8. Strange wives turn away Solomon's heart (Not in Chronicles) 1. _Solomon loved many strange women_ Where polygamy was common there would be a great temptation to a powerful king to conn...
TOGETHER WITH THE DAUGHTER OF PHARAOH— Pharaoh's daughter, as we have before remarked, is generally supposed to have been a proselyte to the Jewish religion, and therefore Solomon incurred no fault in...
I. SOLOMON'S TRANSGRESSIONS 11:1-13 TRANSLATION (1) And King Solomon loved many strange women, even Pharaoh's daughter, Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian and Hittite women (2) from the nations of...
_BUT KING SOLOMON LOVED MANY STRANGE WOMEN, TOGETHER WITH THE DAUGHTER OF PHARAOH, WOMEN OF THE MOABITES, AMMONITES, EDOMITES, ZIDONIANS, AND HITTITES;_ But king Solomon loved many strange women, х_...
SOLOMON'S ERRORS AND THEIR CONSEQUENCES. HIS DEATH This chapter furnishes an account of Solomon's marriages with numerous foreign princesses, and traces the evil effect of such in the toleration of i...
GOD’S LESSONS FROM HISTORY 1 KINGS _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 11 SOLOMON *WORSHIPS FALSE GODS V1 Solomon, however, loved many foreign women. He married the daughter of the king of Egypt. He also mar...
MOABITES, AMMONITES, EDOMITES, ZIDONIANS, HITTITES. — The first three of these races were kindred to Israel and of the stock of Abraham, and were now among the subjects of Solomon; the last two were o...
(1-8) The defection of Solomon is distinctly traced to his polygamy, contracting numerous marriages with “strange women.” Polygamy is also attributed to David (see 2 Samuel 3:2; 2 Samuel 15:16), marki...
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THE OLD AGE OF SOLOMON 1 Kings 11:1 "That uxorious king, whose heart, though large, Beguiled by fair idolatresses, fell To idols foul." - MILTON, Paradise Lost. "Did not Solomon, king of Israel, s...
HOLLOW PROSPERITY 1 Kings 11:1 "Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity." - Ecclesiastes 1:2 "At every draught more large and large they grow, A bloated mass of ra...
BREAKING THREE COMMANDMENTS 1 Kings 21:1; 1 Kings 1:1; 1 Kings 2:1; 1 Kings 3:1;...
A HEART TURNED AWAY FROM GOD 1 Kings 11:1 The practice of mixed marriages was in direct violation of the divine Law, Deuteronomy 7:3, and it led to idolatry. All around the Holy City arose heathen te...
At this point the story of Solomon suddenly changes. The glory passes away, and we observe his rapid degeneracy and doom. The nature of the man had ever a strong animal side. His commercial enterprise...
But king Solomon loved many (a) strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, [and] Hittites; (a) Who were idolaters....
Strange women, who had been brought up in the service of idols, and were not sincerely converted. (Haydock) --- Riches engaged Solomon in the love of pleasure, and this brought on his ruin. (Calmet) -...
CONTENTS A melancholy account is here given of Solomon's fall. His many wives and concubines, in his old age, lead him into idolatry. The Lord's displeasure. Solomon's chastisement, and death. An acc...
Solomon was now at the height of his glory, a vivid type of a greater than Solomon. And it is only when we see that he really does thus prefigure the Lord Jesus as King that we can understand the impo...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 11 AND 12. Till now we have had the beautiful picture of God's blessing resting upon the son of David, whose only desire it had been to possess wisdom from Go...
BUT KING SOLOMON LOVED MANY STRANGE WOMEN,.... His love was a lustful and not a lawful one, and of women who were not only of foreign countries, but not his lawful wives, and these many: TOGETHER WIT...
But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, [and] Hittites; Ver. 1. _But king Solomon loved many strange w...
_King Solomon loved many strange women_ It was not a fault in him that he married Pharaoh's daughter; she being a proselyte, as is generally supposed, to the Jewish religion. But in marrying so many o...
1 Solomons wiues and concubines. 4 In his old age they draw him to idolatry. 9 God threatneth him. 14 Solomons aduersaries were Hadad, who was intertained in Egypt, 23 Rezon who reigned in Damascu...
But King Solomon loved many strange women, foreigners, non-Israelites, TOGETHER WITH, that is, beside, THE DAUGHTER OF PHARAOH, who was his first wife, WOMEN OF THE MOABITES, AMMONITES, EDOMITES, the...
Solomon's Love of Women and Idolatry...
MANY MARRIAGES LEADING TO IDOLATRY (vs.1-13) Solomon also disobeyedDeuteronomy 17:17 in making many marriages with foreign women, from the Moabites, Alnmonites, Edomites, Sidonians and Hittites (v.1)...
TOGETHER WITH: Or, besides...
1-8 There is not a more melancholy and astonishing instance of human depravity in the sacred Scriptures, than that here recorded. Solomon became a public worshipper of abominable idols! Probably he b...
1 KINGS CHAPTER 11 Solomon's wives and concubines, which in his old age seduce him to idolatry, 1 KINGS 11:1. God threateneth him, 1 KINGS 11:9. His adversaries are, Hadad, who fleeth into Egypt, and...
1 Kings 11:1 King H4428 Solomon H8010 loved H157 (H8804) many H7227 foreign H5237 women H802 daughter H1323 Pharaoh...
SOLOMON THROWS HIMSELF WHOLEHEARTEDLY INTO IDOLATRY BECAUSE OF HIS WIVES (1 KINGS 11:1). Solomon's obsession with his own glory inevitably resulted in his beginning to feel that he was so great that h...
CONTENTS: Solomon's heart turned. Chastened of God. Rise of Jeroboam. Death of Solomon. CHARACTERS: God, Solomon, Hadad, Pharaoh, Rezon, Jeroboam, Adoram, Ahijah. CONCLUSION: The way of sin is down h...
1 Kings 11:1. _Solomon loved many strange women,_ of gentile nations, and was connected with them. To this day thousands of women in India are married to great men merely as a mark of honour, and they...
_But King Solomon loved many strange women._ SOLOMON’S SIN A few years ago two paintings were exhibited in this country, which attracted wide attention. One of them represented Rome in the height of...
1 KINGS—NOTE ON 1 KINGS 11:1 Throughout chs. 1 Kings 1:1 there have been hints that all is not well with Solomon’s heart. Now comes the inevitable conclusion: Solomon’s sins have led him to apostasy.
THE DECLINE OF THE HEBREW EMPIRE CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.— 1 Kings 11:1. BUT KING SOLOMON LOVED MANY STRANGE WOMEN—If importations of foreign luxuries and indulgences into his court (see previ...
EXPOSITION SOLOMON'S DEFECTION.—The observant reader will have already remarked in this history some intimations of Solomon's approaching fall. Among these are, first, the repeated warnings which are...
Chapter eleven. But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughters of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites (1 Kings 11:1); Now turn back fo...
1 Kings 11:8; 1 Kings 3:1; Deuteronomy 17:17; Genesis 6:2; Leviti
How could God allow Solomon to have so many wives when he condemns polygamy? PROBLEM: First Kings 11:3 says Solomon had 700 wives and 300 concubines. And yet the Scriptures repeatedly warn against hav...