2007-07-04 17:06:39 · 9 answers · asked by The Starr Company 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
He had 700 wives and 300 concubines.
"As he grew older he spent more of his time among his favorites. The idle king living among these idle women, for 1,000 women, with all their idle and mischievous attendants, filled the palaces and pleasure-houses which he had built (1 Kings 11:3), learned first to tolerate and then to imitate their heathenish ways."
God didn't like it and Solomon's enemies prevailed against him, bringing an end to him and his kingdom.
2007-07-04 17:11:54 · answer #1 · answered by Muffie 5 · 3⤊ 2⤋
I don't think the story of Solomon and his wives is an entirely true story, because it is well documented the Egyptian Pharaohs of that time would have never let anyone take a wife away from Egypt. They considered themselves superior to any non Egyptians That would have also meant Solomon's kids might have had a claim to the throne of Egypt, which was not tolerable to the greatest empire of that time.
2007-07-04 18:47:11 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
1 Kings 11:1 (KJV)
1 But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites;
I couldn't find it but it looks like he married a lot of them! Did something bad happen to him? Well he started to worship other gods.
2007-07-04 17:11:05 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Solomon began to disregard God’s law. We read: “And King Solomon himself loved many foreign wives along with the daughter of Pharaoh, Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian and Hittite women, from the nations of whom Jehovah had said to the sons of Israel: ‘You must not go in among them, and they themselves should not come in among you; truly they will incline your heart to follow their gods.’ It was to them that Solomon clung to love them. And he came to have seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines; and his wives gradually inclined his heart. And it came about in the time of Solomon’s growing old that his wives themselves had inclined his heart to follow other gods; and his heart did not prove to be complete with Jehovah his God like the heart of David his father.
2007-07-04 18:24:29 · answer #4 · answered by BJ 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
He had 700 wives... (political marriages)
Yes, his many wives led to his downfall, b/c they brought in their pagan gods... and turned his head and his kids' hearts from the true God....
So, even the wisest man alive made some poor choices!
2007-07-04 17:14:48 · answer #5 · answered by Christian in Kuwait 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Why in the dang SAM hill do you need to know anyway? Are you going to try and beat his record for The Guinness Book of World records?
2007-07-04 17:13:37 · answer #6 · answered by Pepsi 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
He Had ENOUGH Wives 2 KEEP HIM BUSY
2007-07-04 18:33:40 · answer #7 · answered by . 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
About 500 if I remember correctly.
2007-07-04 17:09:16 · answer #8 · answered by punch 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
More than Bill Clinton ...doesn't something bad happen to all of us if we live that long?
peace
2007-07-04 17:10:35 · answer #9 · answered by dogpatch USA 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋