1 Kings 11 · Verse 8

1 Kings 11:8

And likewise did he for all his strange wives, which burnt incense and sacrificed unto their gods.
1 Kings 11:8, King James Version

1 Kings 11:8 in other translations

BSBHe did the same for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods.
WEBSo he did for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods.
ASVAnd so did he for all his foreign wives, who burnt incense and sacrificed unto their gods.
YLTand so he hath done for all his strange women, who are perfuming and sacrificing to their gods.
DARBYAnd so he did for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to theirgods.
BBEAnd so he did for all his strange wives, who made offerings with burning of perfumes to their gods.
WebsterAnd likewise did he for all his foreign wives, who burnt incense and sacrificed to their gods.

What does 1 Kings 11:8 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
8. 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; 23:5). 1Ki 11:9-13. God Threatens Him.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on 1 Kings 11:1-8

There is not a more melancholy and astonishing instance of human depravity in the sacred Scriptures, than that here recorded. Solomon became a public worshipper of abominable idols! Probably he by degrees gave way to pride and luxury, and thus lost his relish for true wisdom. Nothing forms in itself a security against the deceitfulness and depravity of the human heart. Nor will old age cure the heart of any evil…

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1 Kings 11:8 in the original Hebrew

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וְכֵ֣ןve.Khenand thusH3651
עָשָׂ֔ה'a.Sahhe didH6213
לְכָל\־le.kholfor allH3605
נָשָׁ֖יוna.Shavwives hisH802
הַנָּכְרִיּ֑וֹתha.na.khe.ri.Yot<the> foreignH5237
מַקְטִיר֥וֹתmak.ti.Rot[who] made smokeH6999
וּֽמְזַבְּח֖וֹתu.me.za.be.Chotand [who] sacrificedH2076
לֵאלֹהֵיהֶֽן\׃le.lo.hei.Hento gods theirH430

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Cross references for 1 Kings 11:8

  • 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. And it came to pass after all thy wickedness, (woe, woe unto thee! saith the Lord God;) That thou hast also built unto thee an eminent place, and hast made thee an high place in every street. Thou hast built thy high place at every head of the way, and hast made thy beauty to be abhorred, and hast opened thy feet to every one that passed by, and multiplied thy whoredoms. …

  • Hosea 4:11-12

    Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart. My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them: for the spirit of whoredoms hath caused them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God.

  • 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. Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.

  • 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. Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord’s table, and of the table of devils. Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
all his strange wives.
1; Eze 16:22-29; Ho 4:11,12; 1Co 10:11,12,20-22

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • 1 Kings 11:7

    Then did Solomon build an high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, in the hill that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the abomination of the children of Ammon.

  • 1 Kings 11:8

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

  • 1 Kings 11:9

    And the Lord was angry with Solomon, because his heart was turned from the Lord God of Israel, which had appeared unto him twice,

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1 Kings 11:8 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Y así hizo para todas sus mujeres extranjeras, las cuales quemaban perfumes, y sacrificaban á sus dioses.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Et il en fit ainsi pour toutes ses femmes étrangères, qui brûlaient de l’encens et sacrifiaient à leurs dieux.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Und also tat er für alle seine fremden Weiber, die ihren Göttern räucherten und opferten.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Atque in hunc modum fecit universis uxoribus suis alienigenis, quæ adolebant thura, et immolabant diis suis.