1 Kings 11:4 “For when Solomon grew old, his wives turned his heart after other gods…”

1 Kings 11:4

For 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.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his heart after other gods: and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God, as was the heart of David his father.

World English Bible

When Solomon was old, his wives turned away his heart after other gods; and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God, as the heart of David his father was.

American Standard Version

For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his heart after other gods; and his heart was not perfect with Jehovah his God, as was the heart of David his father.

Geneva Bible 1599

For when Salomon was olde, his wiues turned his heart after other gods, so that his heart was not perfect with the Lord his God, as was the heart of Dauid his father.

Darby Translation

And it came to pass when Solomon was old, [that] his wives turned away his heart after other gods; and his heart was not perfect with Jehovah his God, as the heart of David his father.

Young's Literal Translation

And it cometh to pass, at the time of the old age of Solomon, his wives have turned aside his heart after other gods, and his heart hath not been perfect with Jehovah his God, like the heart of David his father.

Bible in Basic English

For it came about that when Solomon was old, his heart was turned away to other gods by his wives; and his heart was no longer true to the Lord his God as the heart of his father David had been.

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Cross references

“when Solomon”

1 Kings 11:42 1 Kings 6:1 1 Kings 9:10 1 Kings 14:21

1 Kings 11:42 · BSB

Thus the time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel was forty years.

1 Kings 6:1 · BSB

In the four hundred and eightieth year after the Israelites had come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, in the month of Ziv, the second month, he began to build the house of the…

1 Kings 9:10 · BSB

Now at the end of the twenty years during which Solomon built these two houses, the house of the LORD and the royal palace,

1 Kings 14:21 · BSB

Meanwhile, Rehoboam son of Solomon reigned in Judah. He was forty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city the LORD had chosen from all the tribes of Israel in which to put…

“his wives”

1 Kings 11:2 Deuteronomy 17:17 Deuteronomy 7:4 Nehemiah 13:26 Nehemiah 13:27

1 Kings 11:2 · BSB

These 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.

Deuteronomy 17:17 · BSB

He must not take many wives for himself, lest his heart go astray. He must not accumulate for himself large amounts of silver and gold.

Deuteronomy 7:4 · BSB

because they will turn your sons away from following Me to serve other gods. Then the anger of the LORD will burn against you, and He will swiftly destroy you.

Nehemiah 13:26 · BSB

Did not King Solomon of Israel sin in matters like this? There was not a king like him among many nations, and he was loved by his God, who made him king over all Israel—yet foreign women drew him into sin.

Nehemiah 13:27 · BSB

Must we now hear that you too are doing all this terrible evil and acting unfaithfully against our God by marrying foreign women?”

“his heart”

1 Kings 9:4 1 Kings 8:61 1 Kings 11:6 1 Chronicles 28:9 2 Chronicles 17:3 2 Chronicles 34:2

1 Kings 9:4 · BSB

And as for you, if you walk before Me as your father David walked, with a heart of integrity and uprightness, doing all I have commanded you, and if you keep My statutes and ordinances,

1 Kings 8:61 · BSB

So let your heart be fully devoted to the LORD our God, as it is this day, to walk in His statutes and to keep His commandments.”

1 Kings 11:6 · BSB

So Solomon did evil in the sight of the LORD; unlike his father David, he did not follow the LORD completely.

1 Chronicles 28:9 · BSB

As for you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father and serve Him wholeheartedly and with a willing mind, for the LORD searches every heart and understands the intent of every thought. If you seek Him, He will be fou…

2 Chronicles 17:3 · BSB

Now the LORD was with Jehoshaphat because he walked in the earlier ways of his father David. He did not seek the Baals,

2 Chronicles 34:2 · BSB

And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD and walked in the ways of his father David; he did not turn aside to the right or to the left.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

3He had seven hundred wives of royal birth and three hundred concubines—and his wives turned his heart away.

5Solomon followed Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians and Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.

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