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Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary

1 Kings 11:8

Having once given way to some few of most beloved wives, he was forced to comply with the rest.

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  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _and likewise did he for all his strange wives_ i.e. For such of them as desired a special place for their worship. Ashtoreth, Chemosh and Moloch would suffice for the greater number, but we know of o...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _AND LIKEWISE DID HE FOR ALL HIS STRANGE WIVES, WHICH BURNT INCENSE AND SACRIFICED UNTO THEIR GODS._ Burnt incense, and sacrificed unto their gods. The first was considered a higher act of homage, an...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    (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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    WHICH HAD APPEARED UNTO HIM TWICE. — See 1 Kings 3:5; 1 Kings 9:2.) Stress is laid on these direct visions of the Lord to Solomon, as contrasted with the usual indirect revelation through the prophets...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ כֵ֣ן עָשָׂ֔ה לְ כָל ־נָשָׁ֖יו הַ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    BREAKING THREE COMMANDMENTS 1 Kings 21:1; 1 Kings 1:1; 1 Kings 2:1; 1 Kings 3:1;...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (2) 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: for surely they will turn away your heart after their go...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND LIKEWISE DID HE FOR ALL HIS STRANGE WIVES,.... That is, built high places for their idols, or suffered them to be built; for when he had done it for one, he could not refuse it to another, without...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And likewise did he for all his strange wives, which burnt incense and sacrificed unto their gods. Ver. 8. _And likewise did he for all, &c._] After that he had once gratified his mistresses of Moab,...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _And likewise did he for all his strange wives_ For what he granted to one, the others would be disposed to claim, or else complain of his unkindness to them. One would have expected from his wisdom a...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And likewise did he for all his strange wives, which burned incense and sacrificed unto their gods, having Solomon's full permission to continue to follow their idolatrous customs....

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Solomon's Love of Women and Idolatry...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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)...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    1 Kings 11:8 did H6213 (H8804) foreign H5237 wives H802 incense H6999 (H8688) sacrificed H2076 (H8764) gods...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Then did Solomon build an high place for Chemosh._ SOLOMON AND TOLERATION 1. Proverbs, it has been said, are “the wisdom of many and the wit of one,” at least they are most often trustworthy exponen...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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 ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    1 KINGS—NOTE ON 1 KINGS 11:7 The worship of other GODS at high places is a key concern in 1–2 Kings (e.g., 1 Kings 12:25;...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Corinthians 10:11; 1 Corinthians 10:12; 1 Corinthians 10:20; 1 Kings 11:1;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    And sacrificed, &c. — See what need those have to stand upon their guard, who have been eminent for religion. The devil will set upon them most violently: and if they miscarry, the reproach is the gre...

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