Parallel Verses

A Conservative Version

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

New American Standard Bible

He had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines, and his wives turned his heart away.

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

He had 700 wives who were princesses and 300 concubines, and they turned his heart away from the Lord.

International Standard Version

He had 700 princess wives and 300 mistresses who turned his heart away from the LORD,

American Standard Version

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

Amplified

He had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines, and his wives turned his heart away [from God].

Bible in Basic English

He had seven hundred wives, daughters of kings, and three hundred other wives; and through his wives his heart was turned away.

Darby Translation

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

Julia Smith Translation

And there will be to him seven hundred chief wives, and three hundred concubines: and his wives will turn his heart

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

He had seven hundred princesses and three hundred concubines, and his wives turned his heart.

Modern King James verseion

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

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

And he had seven hundred very Queens and three hundred concubines which turned always his heart.

NET Bible

He had 700 royal wives and 300 concubines; his wives had a powerful influence over him.

New Heart English Bible

He had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines; and his wives turned away his heart.

The Emphasized Bible

So it came to pass that he had seven hundred wives who were princesses, and three hundred concubines, - and, his wives, turned aside, his heart.

Webster

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

World English Bible

He had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines; and his wives turned away his heart.

Youngs Literal Translation

And he hath women, princesses, seven hundred, and concubines three hundred; and his wives turn aside his heart.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
שׁבעה שׁבע 
Sheba` 
Usage: 395

מאיה מאה 
me'ah 
מאיה מאה 
me'ah 
Usage: 581
Usage: 581

נשׁים אשּׁה 
'ishshah 
Usage: 780

שׂרה 
Sarah 
Usage: 5

and three
שׁלשׁה שׁלושׁה שׁלשׁ שׁלושׁ 
Shalowsh 
Usage: 430

פּלגשׁ פּילגשׁ 
Piylegesh 
Usage: 37

and his wives
נשׁים אשּׁה 
'ishshah 
Usage: 780

References

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Context Readings

Solomon's Foreign Wives

2 of the nations concerning which LORD said to the sons of Israel, Ye shall not go among them, neither shall they come among you, for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods. Solomon clave to these in love. 3 And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines. And his wives turned away his heart. 4 For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his heart after other gods. And his heart was not perfect with LORD his God as was the heart of David his father.

Cross References

2 Samuel 5:13-16

And David took for him more concubines and wives out of Jerusalem, after he came from Hebron, and there were yet sons and daughters born to David.

Judges 8:30-31

And Gideon had seventy sons begotten from his body, for he had many wives.

Judges 9:5

And he went to his father's house at Ophrah, and killed his brothers the sons of Jerubbaal, being seventy men, upon one stone, but Jotham the youngest son of Jerubbaal was left, for he hid himself.

2 Samuel 3:2-5

And sons were born to David in Hebron: and his first-born was Amnon, of Ahinoam the Jezreelitess,

2 Chronicles 11:21

And Rehoboam loved Maacah the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and his concubines. For he took eighteen wives, and thirty concubines, and begot twenty-eight sons and thirty daughters.

Ecclesiastes 7:28

which my soul still seeks, but I have not found: among a thousand I have found one man, but among all those I have not found a woman.

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