1 Kings 11:8 KJV — MannaFest

1 Kings 11:8

And likewise did he for all his strange wives, which burnt incense and sacrificed unto their gods.

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ASV

And so did he for all his foreign wives, who burnt incense and sacrificed unto their gods.

WEB

He did the same for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods.

YLT

and so he hath done for all his strange women, who are perfuming and sacrificing to their gods.

DBT

And so he did for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to theirgods.

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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 11:1
But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites;
Ezekiel 16:22–29
And in all thine abominations and thy whoredoms thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, when thou wast naked and bare, and wast polluted in thy blood.
1 Corinthians 10:11–12
Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.
1 Corinthians 10:20–22
But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils.
Hosea 4:11–12
Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart.

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), maintained their priests, and occasionally did himself attend their altars, making a jest of it, asking, "What harm is there in it? Are not all religions alike?" which (says bishop Patrick) has been the disease of some great wits.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

(4.) That so good a man, so zealous for the worship of God, who had been so conversant with divine things, and who prayed that excellent prayer at the dedication of the temple, should do these sinful things. Have all his wisdom and devotion come to this at last? Never was gallant ship so wrecked; never was crown so profaned.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

burnt incense and sacrificed unto their gods--The first was considered a higher act of homage, and is often used as synonymous with worship (2Ki 22:17;

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

And sacrificed, &c. - See what need those have to stand upon their guard, who have been eminent for religion. The devil will set upon them most violently: and if they miscarry, the reproach is the greater. It is the evening that commends the day.

John Wesley (NT Notes)· Explanatory Notes upon the Bible, 1765evangelical

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