1 Kings 11:4

Solomon's Apostasy

³ He had seven hundred wives, daughters of kings, and three hundred other wives. His wives influenced his heart to turn away. ⁴ For when Solomon was old, his wives turned his heart away after other gods; and his heart was not wholly devoted to the Lord his God, as the heart of David his father had been. ⁵ Solomon went after Ashtoreth, the goddess of the Zidonians, and Milcom, the disgusting god of the Ammonites.

Other Gods

To the Lord

David

Jehovah

No

Solomon

1 Kings 9:4

As for you, if you will walk before me, as David your father did, uprightly and with a true heart, doing what I have given you orders to do, keeping my laws and my decisions;

1 Kings 8:61

Let your hearts be committed to Jehovah our God. Then you will live by his laws and keep his commands as you have today.

Deuteronomy 7:4

They will lead your young people away from me to serve other gods. So the anger of Jehovah will be kindled against you and will destroy you suddenly.

Deuteronomy 17:17

He must not take many wives or his heart will turn astray. He must not accumulate large amounts of silver and gold.

1 Kings 6:1

Solomon began work on the Temple. It was four hundred and eighty years after the people of Israel left Egypt, during the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the second month, the month of Ziv.

1 Kings 6:12-13

If you obey all my laws and commands, I will do for you what I promised your father David.

1 Kings 9:10

It took twenty years for Solomon to build two houses, the Temple of Jehovah and the king's house.

1 Kings 11:2

Jehovah warned the children of Israel about these nations. He said: You are not to take wives from them and they are not to take wives from you. They will certainly turn your hearts to go after their gods. Solomon loved his wives anyway.

1 Kings 11:6

Solomon did evil in the eyes of Jehovah. He did not walk in Jehovah's ways with all his heart as David his father did.

1 Kings 11:38

If you obey me completely I will always be with you. You must live by my laws, and win my approval by doing what I command, as my servant David did. I will make you king of Israel and will make sure that your descendants rule after you, just as I have done for David.

1 Kings 11:42

He was king in Jerusalem over all Israel for forty years.

1 Kings 14:21

Solomon's son Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he became king of Judah. He ruled seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city Jehovah chose from all the territory of Israel as the place where he was to be worshiped. Rehoboam's mother was Naamah from Ammon.

1 Kings 15:3

He was not completely loyal to Jehovah his God as his great-grandfather David had been. He committed the same sins as his father did.

1 Kings 15:14

The high places were not taken away. Nevertheless Asa's heart was true to Jehovah all his life.

2 Kings 20:3

Jehovah, Please remember how I have walked before you in faithfulness and truth. And consider my whole heart devoted to you. I have done what is good in your eyes. Hezekiah wept bitterly.

1 Chronicles 28:9

You my son Solomon, learn to know your father's God. Serve Jehovah wholeheartedly and willingly because he searches every heart and understands every thought we have. If you dedicate your life to serving him, he will accept you. On the other hand if you abandon him, he will reject you from then on.

1 Chronicles 29:19

Give my son Solomon a wholehearted desire to obey everything that you command and to build the Temple for which I have made these preparations.

2 Chronicles 17:3

Jehovah blessed Jehoshaphat because he followed the example of his father's early life and did not worship Baal.

2 Chronicles 25:2

He did what Jehovah considered right, but he did not do it wholeheartedly.

2 Chronicles 31:20-21

This is what Hezekiah did throughout Judah. He did what was good and right and true to Jehovah his God.

2 Chronicles 34:2

He did what Jehovah considered right. He lived in the ways of his ancestor David and never stopped living this way.

Nehemiah 13:26-27

Was it not in these things that Solomon, king of Israel, did wrong? Among a number of nations there was no king like him. He was dear to his God, and God made him king over all Israel. But even he was made to do evil by strange women.