1 Kings 11:3 BSB — MannaFest

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13 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיְהִי־	vay.hi-	and it belonged	H1961 →
ל֣וֹ	lo	to him
נָשִׁ֗ים	na.Shim	wives	H802 →
שָׂרוֹת֙	sa.rOt	noble ladies	H8282 →
שְׁבַ֣ע	she.Va'	seven	H7651 →
מֵא֔וֹת	me.'ot	hundred<s>	H3967 →
וּפִֽלַגְשִׁ֖ים	u.fi.lag.Shim	and concubines	H6370 →
שְׁלֹ֣שׁ	she.Losh	three	H7969 →
מֵא֑וֹת	me.'ot	hundred<s>	H3967 →
וַיַּטּ֥וּ	vai.ya.Tu	and they turned aside	H5186 →
נָשָׁ֖יו	na.Shav	wives his	H802 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
לִבּֽוֹ׃	li.Bo	heart his	H3820 →

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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Ecclesiastes 7:28
While my soul was still searching but not finding, among a thousand I have found one upright man, but among all these I have not found one such woman.
leads to
- Psalms 12:1
  Help, O LORD, for the godly are no more; the faithful have vanished from among men.
- Job 33:23
  Yet if there is a messenger on his side, one mediator in a thousand, to tell a man what is right for him,
- 1 Kings 11:1–3
  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.
- Isaiah 26:9
  My soul longs for You in the night; indeed, my spirit seeks You at dawn. For when Your judgments come upon the earth, the people of the world learn righteousness.
Through
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.
leads to
- Deuteronomy 17:17
  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.
- Judges 8:30
  Gideon had seventy sons of his own, since he had many wives.
- 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 3:2–5
  And sons were born to David in Hebron: His firstborn was Amnon, by Ahinoam of Jezreel;

The gold bar shows how strongly the cross-reference sources tie the two verses together: a long bar means many compiled references make the connection, a short one means few.

Song of Solomon 6:8There are sixty queens and eighty concubines, and maidens without number,2 Samuel 5:13–16After he had arrived from Hebron, David took more concubines and wives from Jerusalem, and more sons and daughters were born to him.Ecclesiastes 7:28While my soul was still searching but not finding, among a thousand I have found one upright man, but among all these I have not found one such woman.Judges 8:30Gideon had seventy sons of his own, since he had many wives.2 Chronicles 11:21Rehoboam 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.2 Samuel 3:2–5And sons were born to David in Hebron: His firstborn was Amnon, by Ahinoam of Jezreel;Judges 8:30–31Gideon had seventy sons of his own, since he had many wives.Judges 9:5He went to his father’s house in Ophrah, and on one stone murdered his seventy brothers, the sons of Jerubbaal. But Jotham, the youngest son of Jerubbaal, survived, because he hid himself.Jeremiah 3:2“Lift up your eyes to the barren heights and see. Is there any place where you have not been violated? You sat beside the highways waiting for your lovers, like a nomad in the desert. You have defiled the land with your prostitution and wickedness.Judges 19:1Now in those days, when there was no king in Israel, a Levite who lived in the remote hill country of Ephraim took for himself a concubine from Bethlehem in Judah.Genesis 16:3So after he had lived in Canaan for ten years, his wife Sarai took her Egyptian maidservant Hagar and gave her to Abram to be his wife.1 Chronicles 14:3And David took more wives in Jerusalem and became the father of more sons and daughters.Esther 1:18This very day the noble women of Persia and Media who have heard about the queen’s conduct will say the same thing to all the king’s officials, resulting in much contempt and wrath.

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