1 Kings 11:4

Solomon's Apostasy

³ And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines. And his wives turned away his heart. ⁴ For it happened when Solomon was old, his wives turned away his heart after other gods. And his heart was not perfect with Jehovah his God, as was the heart of David his father. ⁵ For Solomon went after Ashtoreth, the goddess of the Sidonians, and after Milcom, the abomination of the Ammonites;

Other Gods

To the Lord

David

Jehovah

No

Solomon

1 Kings 9:4

And if you will walk before Me as David your father walked, in integrity of heart and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded you; and if you will keep My statutes and My judgments,

1 Kings 8:61

And let your heart be perfect with Jehovah our God, to walk in His statutes, and to keep His commandments, as at this day.

Deuteronomy 7:4

For they will turn away your son from following Me, so that they may serve other gods. So the anger of Jehovah will be kindled against you and will destroy you suddenly.

Deuteronomy 17:17

Nor shall he multiply wives to himself, so that his heart does not turn away. Nor shall he greatly multiply silver and gold to himself.

1 Kings 6:1

And it happened in the four hundred and eightieth year after the sons of Israel had come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month Zif, which is the second month, he began to build the house of Jehovah.

1 Kings 6:12-13

As to this house which you are building, if you will walk in My statutes and do My judgments and keep all My commandments, to walk in them, then I will perform My work with you which I spoke to David your father.

1 Kings 9:10

And it happened at the end of twenty years, Solomon had built the two houses, the house of Jehovah and the king's house.

1 Kings 11:2

of the nations which Jehovah had said to the sons of Israel, You shall not go in to them, and they shall not go in to you; surely they will turn away your heart after their gods. Solomon clung to these in love.

1 Kings 11:6

and Solomon did evil in the sight of Jehovah, and did not go fully after Jehovah like his father David.

1 Kings 11:38

And if you will listen to all that I command you, and will walk in My ways, and do what is right in My sight, to keep My statutes and My commandments, as David My servant did, it shall happen that I will be with you and build you a sure house, as I built for David, and will give Israel to you.

1 Kings 11:42

And the days that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel were forty years.

1 Kings 14:21

And Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which Jehovah chose out of all the tribes of Israel to put His name there. And his mother's name was Naamah, an Ammonitess.

1 Kings 15:3

And he walked in all the sins of his father which he had done before him. And his heart was not perfect with Jehovah his God, as the heart of David his father.

1 Kings 15:14

But the high places were not removed. But Asa's heart was perfect with Jehovah all his days.

2 Kings 20:3

I pray, O Jehovah, remember now how I have walked before You in truth and with a sincere heart, and have done good in Your sight. And Hezekiah wept with a great weeping.

1 Chronicles 28:9

And you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father and serve Him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind. For Jehovah searches all hearts and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek Him, He will be found by you. But if you forsake Him, He will cast you off forever.

1 Chronicles 29:19

And give to Solomon my son a perfect heart, to keep Your commandments, Your testimonies, and Your statutes, and to do all these things, and to build the magnificent house for which I have made ready.

2 Chronicles 17:3

And Jehovah was with Jehoshaphat because he walked in the first ways of his father David and did not seek to Baals.

2 Chronicles 25:2

And he did the right in the eyes of Jehovah, but not with a perfect heart.

2 Chronicles 31:20-21

And Hezekiah did throughout all Judah, and did the good and the right and the true before Jehovah his God.

2 Chronicles 34:2

And he did the right in the sight of Jehovah, and walked in the ways of David his father, and did not turn aside to the right nor to the left.

Nehemiah 13:26-27

Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? Yet among many nations there was no king like him, who was beloved by his God, and God made him king over all Israel. But women from other lands caused even him to sin.