1 Kings 11:6 KJV — MannaFest

1 Kings 11:6

And Solomon did evil in the sight of the Lord, and went not fully after the Lord, as did David his father.

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ASV

And Solomon did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, and went not fully after Jehovah, as did David his father.

WEB

So Solomon did evil in the sight of the LORD; unlike his father David, he did not follow the LORD completely.

YLT

and Solomon doth the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah, and hath not been fully after Jehovah, like David his father.

DBT

And Solomon did evil in the sight of Jehovah, and followed not fully Jehovah, as David his father.

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1 Kings — From Solomon's glory to the divided kingdom — then Elijah's confrontation with Ahab and Jezebel dominating the second half. The promise of the Davidic covenant unfolding through temple glory, then beginning to unravel as idolatry and political fragmentation take hold.

Author: Compiler anonymous; Jewish tradition attributes to Jeremiah (Bava Batra 15a). The book draws on court annals and prophetic records cited by name.
Date: Events c. 970–852 BC; compilation during the late Judahite monarchy or exile

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1 Kings 9:4
And if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded thee, and wilt keep my statutes and my judgments:
Numbers 14:24
But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and hath followed me fully, him will I bring into the land whereinto he went; and his seed shall possess it.
1 Kings 11:4
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 the Lord his God, as was the heart of David his father.
2 Chronicles 17:3
And the Lord was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the first ways of his father David, and sought not unto Baalim;
Joshua 14:8
Nevertheless my brethren that went up with me made the heart of the people melt: but I wholly followed the Lord my God.

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Ashtoreth--Astarte, Milcom--Molech, and Chemosh--He built altars for these three; but, although he is described (1Ki 11:8) as doing the same for "all his strange wives," there is no evidence that they had idols distinct from these; and there is no trace whatever of Egyptian idolatry.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

(2.) He tolerated and maintained his wives in their idolatry and made no scruple of joining with them in it. Pharaoh's daughter was proselyted (as is supposed) to the Jews' religion, but, when he began to grow careless in the worship of God himself, he used no means to convert his other wives to it; in complaisance to them, he built chapels for their gods (

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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1KI 11:6NUM 14:24 DEU 1:36
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
1KI 11:6NUM 14:24 JOS 14:6-14
1KI 11:6NUM 14:24 NUM 14:6-9
1KI 11:6NUM 14:24 NUM 32:11-12
1KI 11:6JOS 14:8 NUM 14:24
1KI 11:6NUM 14:24 EPH 6:6
1KI 11:6JOS 14:8 NUM 13:31
1KI 11:6JOS 14:14 1CO 15:58

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