He must not take many wives for himself, lest his heart go astray. He must not accumulate for himself large amounts of silver and gold. Cross References 2 Samuel 5:13 After he had arrived from Hebron, David took more concubines and wives from Jerusalem, and more sons and daughters were born to him. 2 Samuel 12:11 This is what the LORD says: 'I will raise up adversity against you from your own house. Before your very eyes I will take your wives and give them to another, and he will lie with them in broad daylight. 1 Kings 10:27 The king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar as abundant as sycamore in the foothills. 1 Kings 11:1 King Solomon, however, loved many foreign women along with the daughter of Pharaoh--women of Moab, Ammon, Edom, and Sidon, as well as Hittite women. 1 Kings 11:3 He had seven hundred wives of royal birth and three hundred concubines--and his wives turned his heart away. 1 Kings 11:4 For when Solomon grew old, his wives turned his heart after other gods, and he was not wholeheartedly devoted to the LORD his God, as his father David had been. 2 Chronicles 1:15 The king made silver and gold as common in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar as abundant as sycamore in the foothills. 2 Chronicles 11:21 Rehoboam loved Maacah daughter of Absalom more than all his wives and concubines. In all, he had eighteen wives and sixty concubines, and he was the father of twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters. Proverbs 31:3 Do not spend your strength on women or your vigor on those who ruin kings. Treasury of Scripture Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold. multiply wives Genesis 2:24 2 Samuel 3:2-5 1 Kings 11:1-4 neither shall he 1 Kings 10:21 Psalm 62:10 Proverbs 30:8,9 |