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1 Kings 11:11

1 Kings 11:11

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1 Kings 11 — Overview1 Kings 11 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BibleThis chapter begins with as melancholy a "but" as almost any we find in all the Bible. Hitherto we have read nothing of Solomon but what was great and good; but the lustre both of his goodness and of his…1 Kings 11 — Overview1 Kings 11 · Treasury of Scripture Knowledge1 Kings 11:1, Solomon’s wives and concubines; 1 Kings 11:4, In his old age they draw him to idolatry; 1 Kings 11:9, God threatens him; 1 Kings 11:14, Solomon’s adversaries were Hadad, who was entertained in Egypt; 1…1 Kings 11 — Overview1 Kings 11 · John Gill's Exposition of the Entire BibleThis chapter relates the false steps Solomon took, notwithstanding all his wisdom, in marrying strange wives, and worshipping other gods, 1Ki 11:1 upon which the Lord threatens him to rend the kingdom in his son's time,…1 Kings 11:1-131 Kings 11:1-13 · The Pulpit CommentaryEXPOSITION SOLOMON'S DEFECTION.—The observant reader will have already remarked in this history some intimations of Solomon's approaching fall. Among these are, first, the repeated warnings which are addressed to him,…1 Kings 11:1-131 Kings 11:1-13 · The Pulpit CommentaryThe dark omen that marred the brightness of Solomon's second vision (1 Kings 9:6) has come to be fulfilled. He was forewarned of danger and yet has fallen into it. The splendour of royal circumstance remained the same,…1 Kings 11:9-131 Kings 11:9-13 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BibleHere is, I. God's anger against Solomon for his sin. The thing he did displeased the Lord. Time was then the Lord loved Solomon (2 Sam. xii. 24) and delighted in him (ch. x. 9), but now the Lord was angry with…