1 Kings 3:1

And Solomon joins in marriage with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and takes the daughter of Pharaoh, and brings her to the City of David, until he completes to build his own house, and the house of YHWH, and the wall of Jerusalem all around.

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In The King James Version

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

2Only, the people are sacrificing in high places, for there has not been built a house for the Name of YHWH until those days.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 23:8sons who are begotten of them, a third generation of them, enter into the assembly of YHWH.

1 Kings 2:10And David lies down with his fathers, and is buried in the City of David,

1 Kings 7:1And Solomon has built his own house [in] thirteen years, and he finishes all his house.

1 Kings 9:1And it comes to pass, at Solomon’s finishing to build the house of YHWH, and the house of the king, and all the desire of Solomon that he delighted to do,

1 Kings 9:16(Pharaoh king of Egypt has gone up and captures Gezer, and burns it with fire, and he has slain the Canaanite who is dwelling in the city, and gives it [as] presents to his daughter, wife of Solomon).

1 Kings 11:1And King Solomon has loved many strange women, and the daughter of Pharaoh, females of Moab, Ammon, Edom, Sidon, [and] of the 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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