Devine Scripture

1 Kings 11:4

1 Kings chapter 11 · verse 4 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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.

Context

v.3And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines; and his wives turned away his heart.

v.4This passage

v.5For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • 2 Chronicles 34:2

    And he did that which was right in the eyes of Jehovah, and walked in the ways of David his father, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left.

  • 1 Kings 9:10

    And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, wherein Solomon had built the two houses, the house of Jehovah and the king’s house

  • 1 Kings 14:21

    And Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which Jehovah had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there: and his mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonitess.

  • Nehemiah 13:26

    Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? yet among many nations was there no king like him, and he was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel: nevertheless even him did foreign women cause to sin.

  • 1 Kings 15:14

    But the high places were not taken away: nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect with Jehovah all his days.

  • 1 Kings 15:3

    And he walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before him; and his heart was not perfect with Jehovah his God, as the heart of David his father.