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Solomon’s Foreign Wives

1 Kings 11:3

In 10 translations

BSB
He had seven hundred wives of royal birth and three hundred concubines—and his wives turned his heart away.
KJV
And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines: and his wives turned away his heart.
WEB
He had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines. His wives turned his heart away.
ASV
And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines; and his wives turned away his heart.
LSV
And he has seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines; and his wives turn aside his heart.
YLT
And he hath women, princesses, seven hundred, and concubines three hundred; and his wives turn aside his heart.
DBY
And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines; and his wives turned away his heart.
DRC
And he had seven hundred wives as queens, and three hundred concubines: and the women turned away his heart.
GNV
And he had seuen hundreth wiues, that were princesses, and three hundreth concubines, and his wiues turned away his heart.
JPS
And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines; and his wives turned away his heart.

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WLC
וַיְהִי־ל֣וֹ נָשִׁ֗ים שָׂרוֹת֙ שְׁבַ֣ע מֵא֔וֹת וּפִֽלַגְשִׁ֖ים שְׁלֹ֣שׁ מֵא֑וֹת וַיַּטּ֥וּ נָשָׁ֖יו אֶת־לִבּֽוֹ׃

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  • 2 Chronicles 11:21Rehoboam loved Maacah daughter of Absalom more than all his wives and concubines. In all, he had eighteen wives and sixty concubines, and he was the father of twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters.
  • Ecclesiastes 7:28While my soul was still searching but not finding, among a thousand I have found one upright man, but among all these I have not found one such woman.
  • 2 Samuel 5:13–16After he had arrived from Hebron, David took more concubines and wives from Jerusalem, and more sons and daughters were born to him. These are the names of the children born to him in Jerusalem: Shammua, Shobab,…
  • Judges 9:5He went to his father’s house in Ophrah, and on one stone murdered his seventy brothers, the sons of Jerubbaal. But Jotham, the youngest son of Jerubbaal, survived, because he hid himself.
  • Judges 8:30–31Gideon had seventy sons of his own, since he had many wives. His concubine, who dwelt in Shechem, also bore him a son, and he named him Abimelech.
  • 2 Samuel 3:2–5And sons were born to David in Hebron: His firstborn was Amnon, by Ahinoam of Jezreel; his second was Chileab, by Abigail the widow of Nabal of Carmel; his third was Absalom, the son of Maacah daughter of King Talmai…

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