Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 1 Kings 11:8
Having once given way to some few of most beloved wives, he was forced to comply with the rest. read more
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Matthew Poole
Joseph Exell
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - 1 Kings 11:1-8
THE DECLINE OF THE HEBREW EMPIRECRITICAL 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 previous chapter) were occasions of peril to Solomon, tending to corrupt his heart from simple fidelity to Jehovah, far more so this creation of a foreign harem. Among the ancient Hebrews polygamy was permitted; and the number of a man’s wives was a standard of his wealth and dignity. Solomon emulated this... read more
Chuck Smith
Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - 1 Kings 11:1-43
Chapter 11Chapter 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 for a moment to Deuteronomy chapter seventeen, beginning with verse fourteen. Here under the law four hundred years before the time of David, before the time of Solomon, God foresaw that the day would come when the people would demand a king. And so even in the law, God gave certain... read more
Joseph Sutcliffe
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - 1 Kings 11:1-43
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 die at home without ever seeing their unlawful husbands. 1 Kings 11:3 . Seven hundred wives. In the Canticle or Song of Solomon, he says that he had sixty queens, eighty concubines, and virgins without number, who were employed as maids and servants in his various palaces. Hence we ought... read more
Joseph Exell
The Biblical Illustrator - 1 Kings 11:1-13
1 Kings 11:1-13But King Solomon loved many strange women.Solomon’s sinA few years ago two paintings were exhibited in this country, which attracted wide attention. One of them represented Rome in the height of her splendour, and the other in the depths of her decay. The contrast was melancholy and instructive. One could not repress the question as he turned from one scene to the other, What led to this mighty change? It was the old story, which every great nation thus far in history has... read more
Joseph Exell
The Biblical Illustrator - 1 Kings 11:7-8
1 Kings 11:7-8Then did Solomon build an high place for Chemosh.Solomon and toleration1. Proverbs, it has been said, are “the wisdom of many and the wit of one,” at least they are most often trustworthy exponents of a uniform experience. And there is a proverb which tells us that no one ever became thoroughly bad all at once. And so it was with Solomon; as the stream of his career sweeps by us in Holy Scripture, windows, as it were, are opened for us through which we gaze out on that sunny... read more
John Trapp
John Trapp Complete Commentary - 1 Kings 11:8
1Ki 11:8 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, the rest of his women would needs have the like courtesy done them. read more
Samuel Bagster
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - 1 Kings 11:8
all his strange wives: 1 Kings 11:1, Ezekiel 16:22-Joel :, Hosea 4:11, Hosea 4:12, 1 Corinthians 10:11, 1 Corinthians 10:12, 1 Corinthians 10:20-Song of Solomon : Reciprocal: 1 Kings 15:12 - all the idols 2 Chronicles 14:3 - For he took Jeremiah 32:31 - this city read more
John Wesley
Wesley's Explanatory Notes - 1 Kings 11:8
And likewise did he for all his strange wives, which burnt incense and sacrificed unto their gods.And sacrificed, … — 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 greater. It is the evening that commends the day. Let us therefore fear, lest having run well, we come short. read more
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Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Kings 11:1-43
1 Kings 11:1-John : . 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 narrative merely recorded the fact that Solomon had a number of wives, and that he built sanctuaries and offered sacrifice to their gods. In its present form the influence of a Deuteronomic editor is unmistakable. But the account of Solomon’ s “ adversaries” ( 1 Kings 11:14... read more