1 Kings 3:1
And Solomon intermarried with Pharaoh the king of Egypt, and took the daughter of Pharaoh, and brought her into the city of David, until he had finished building his own house, and the house of the Lord, and the wall of Jerusalem round about.
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Deuteronomy 23:8(23:9) The children that are born unto them in the third generation, may enter of them into the congregation of the Lord.
1 Kings 2:10And David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David.
1 Kings 7:1But his own house was Solomon building thirteen years, and then he finished all his house.
1 Kings 9:1And it came to pass, when Solomon had finished building the house of the Lord, and the king's house, and all Solomon's desire which he was pleased to execute:
1 Kings 9:16(Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up, and captured Gezer, and burnt it with fire, and slain the Canaanites that dwelt in the city, and given it as a marriage-present unto his daughter, Solomon's wife.
1 Kings 11:1But king Solomon loved many strange women, beside the daughter of Pharaoh, 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 →