1 Kings 11:3 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines: and his wives turned away his heart. ”

• 1 Kings 11:3 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  These numbers seem excessive to many critics, and it must be admitted that history furnishes no parallel to them. In Song of Solomon 6:8 the number of Solomon’s legitimate wives is said to be six...

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• 1 Kings 11:3 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred (b) concubines: and his wives turned away his heart. (b) To whom belonged no dowry.

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• 1 Kings 11:3 - 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 t...

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• 1 Kings 11:3 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  children . sons.

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• 1 Kings 11:3 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines: and his wives turned away his heart. He had seven hundred wives, princesses - How he could get so many of the blood royal fro...

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• 1 Kings 11:3 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Seven hundred wives, &c.— Without knowing the customs of the princes of the East, their pomp, and sumptuousness of living, one might be tempted to wonder of what possible use was this multitude...

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• 1 Kings 11:3 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines: and his wives turned away his heart. Wives, princesses. They were probably, according to an existing custom, the daug...

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• 1 Kings 11:3 - 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 o...

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• 1 Kings 11:3 - 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 3:2-5 ; 2 Samuel 15:16 )...

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• 1 Kings 11:3 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  THE OLD AGE OF SOLOMON 1 Kings 11:1-13 "That uxorious king, whose heart, though large, Beguiled by fair idolatresses, fell To idols foul." - MILTON, Paradise Lost. "Did not Solomon, king of I...

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• 1 Kings 11:3 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  a Heart Turned Away from God 1 Kings 11:1-13 The practice of mixed marriages was in direct violation of the divine Law, Deuteronomy 7:3-4 , and it led to idolatry. All around the Holy City aro...

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• 1 Kings 11:3 - 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 enterpris...

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• 1 Kings 11:3 - 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 g...

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• 1 Kings 11:3 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines ,.... In all 1000, a prodigious number; though these might not be all for use, but for state after the manner of the eastern...

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• 1 Kings 11:3 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines: and his wives turned away his heart. Ver. 3. And he had seven hundred wives. ] Numerum effraenem. Fewer they were by far...

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• 1 Kings 11:3 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  He had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines This was multiplying them prodigiously indeed, and pouring contempt on the divine prohibition in the most notorious manner. Davi...

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• 1 Kings 11:3 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  MANY MARRIAGES LEADING TO IDOLATRY (vs.1-13) Solomon also disobeyed Deuteronomy 17:17 in making many marriages with foreign women, from the Moabites, Alnmonites, Edomites, Sidonians and Hittite...

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• 1 Kings 11:3 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Solomon's Defection and Degeneracy. B. C. 983.       1 But king Solomon loved many strange wom...

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• 1 Kings 11:3 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Seven hundred wives, and three hundred concubines; partly for his lust, which being indulged, becomes infinite and unsatiable; and partly from his pride, accounting this a point of honour and magni...

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• 1 Kings 11:3 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  Solomon Throws Himself Wholeheartedly Into Idolatry Because Of His Wives ( 1 Kings 11:1-8 ). Solomon's obsession with his own glory inevitably resulted in his beginning to feel that he was so grea...

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• 1 Kings 11:3 - 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 (s...

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• 1 Kings 11:3 - 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 t...

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• 1 Kings 11:3 - 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...

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• 1 Kings 11:3 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  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...

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• 1 Kings 11:3 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Solomon's Love of Women and Idolatry

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• 1 Kings 11:3 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  2 Chronicles 11:21 ; 2 Samuel 3:2-5 ; 2 Samuel 5:13-16 ; Ecclesiastes 7:28 ; Judges 8:30 ; Judges 8:31 ; Judges 9:5

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• 1 Kings 11:3 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Seven hundred wives, &c. — God had particularly forbidden the kings to multiply either horses or wives, Deuteronomy 17:16-17 , we saw 1 Kings 10:29 , how he broke the former law, multiplying...

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