So he did for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods.
Parallel translations
- KJV And likewise did he for all his strange wives, which burnt incense and sacrificed unto their gods.
- BSB He did the same for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods.
- NKJV And he did likewise for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods.
- NASB He also did the same for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods.
- NLT Solomon built such shrines for all his foreign wives to use for burning incense and sacrificing to their gods.
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Cross-references · 5
- Ezek 16:22–29In all your abominations and your prostitution you have not remembered the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare, and were wallowing in your blood.
- 1 Cor 10:20–22But I say that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God, and I don’t desire that you would have fellowship with demons.
- Hos 4:11–12Prostitution, wine, and new wine take away understanding.
- 1 Kgs 11:1Now king Solomon loved many foreign women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites;
- 1 Cor 10:11–12Now all these things happened to them by way of example, and they were written for our admonition, on whom the ends of the ages have come.
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