1 Kings 3:1

Solomon became the son-in-law of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and took Pharaoh's daughter as his wife, keeping her in the town of David, till the house he was building for himself, and the house of the Lord and the wall round Jerusalem, were complete.

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And Solomon made affinity with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and took Pharaoh’s daughter, and brought her into the city of David, until he had made an end of building his own house, and the house of the LORD, and the wall of Jerusalem round about.

In Context

2But all this time the people were making their offerings in the high places, because no house had been put up to the name of the Lord till those days.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 23:8Their children in the third generation may come into the meeting of the Lord's people.

1 Kings 2:10Then David went to rest with his fathers, and his body was put into the earth in the town of David.

1 Kings 7:1Solomon was thirteen years building a house for himself till it was complete.

1 Kings 9:1Now when Solomon came to the end of building the house of the Lord and the king's house, and all Solomon's desires, which he had in mind were effected;

1 Kings 9:16Pharaoh, king of Egypt, came and took Gezer, burning it down and putting to death the Canaanites living in the town, and he gave it for a bride-offering to his daughter, Solomon's wife. ...

1 Kings 11:1Now a number of strange women were loved by Solomon, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites:

Matthew Henry on 1 Kings 3:1

Solomon's reign looked bloody in the foregoing chapter, but the necessary acts of justice must not be called cruelty; in this chapter it appears with another face. We must not think the worse of God's mercy to his subjects for his judgments on rebels. We have here, I. Solomon's marriage to Pharaoh's daughter, ver. 1 . II. A general view of his religion, ver. 2-4 . III. A particular account of his prayer to God for wisdom, and the answer to that prayer, ver. 5-15 . IV. A particular instance of his wisdom in… Read the whole commentary →

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