1 Kings 11:8 “He did the same for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacr…”

1 Kings 11:8

He did the same for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

And likewise did he for all his strange wives, which burnt incense and sacrificed unto their gods.

World English Bible

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

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

And so did he for all his outlandish wiues, which burnt incense and offered vnto their gods.

Darby Translation

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

Young's Literal Translation

and so he hath done for all his strange women, who are perfuming and sacrificing to 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.

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Cross references

“all his strange wives”

1 Kings 11:1 Ezekiel 16:22–29 1 Corinthians 10:20–22 Hosea 4:11 Hosea 4:12 1 Corinthians 10:11

1 Kings 11:1 · BSB

King Solomon, however, loved many foreign women along with the daughter of Pharaoh—women of Moab, Ammon, Edom, and Sidon, as well as Hittite women.

Ezekiel 16:22–29 · BSB

And in all your abominations and acts of prostitution, you did not remember the days of your youth when you were naked and bare, wallowing in your own blood.

1 Corinthians 10:20–22 · BSB

No, but the sacrifices of pagans are offered to demons, not to God. And I do not want you to be participants with demons.

Hosea 4:11 · BSB

to promiscuity, wine, and new wine, which take away understanding.

Hosea 4:12 · BSB

My people consult their wooden idols, and their divining rods inform them. For a spirit of prostitution leads them astray and they have played the harlot against their God.

1 Corinthians 10:11 · BSB

Now these things happened to them as examples and were written down as warnings for us, on whom the fulfillment of the ages has come.

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

In context

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.

9Now the LORD grew angry with Solomon, because his heart had turned away from the LORD, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice.

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