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Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Kings 11:1-43

1 Kings 11:1-John : . Sin of Solomon, and the Adversaries Raised up in Consequence.— From various differences in the arrangement of the earlier verses in the LXX and Heb., it has been supposed that in its original form the narrative merely recorded the fact that Solomon had a number of wives, and that he built sanctuaries and offered sacrifice to their gods. In its present form the influence of a Deuteronomic editor is unmistakable. But the account of Solomon’ s “ adversaries” ( 1 Kings 11:14... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - 1 Kings 11:41-43

CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.—1 Kings 11:15. When David was in Edom; or, was (at war) with. The Sept. and Peshito read, had smitten. Hadad was a royal child, rescued from Joab’s extirminating slaughter (2 Samuel 8:13) in Edom, carried into Egypt, and fostered by the Egyptian king. On learning of the death of David and Joab, he quitted Egypt, returned to his own land, and sought to restore the ruined kingdom of his fathers. Foilod in his efforts, he joined himself to Rezon another of Solomon’s... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - 1 Kings 11:1-43

Chapter 11Chapter eleven.But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughters of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites ( 1 Kings 11:1 );Now turn back for a moment to Deuteronomy chapter seventeen, beginning with verse fourteen. Here under the law four hundred years before the time of David, before the time of Solomon, God foresaw that the day would come when the people would demand a king. And so even in the law, God gave certain... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - 1 Kings 11:1-43

1 Kings 11:1 . Solomon loved many strange women, of gentile nations, and was connected with them. To this day thousands of women in India are married to great men merely as a mark of honour, and they die at home without ever seeing their unlawful husbands. 1 Kings 11:3 . Seven hundred wives. In the Canticle or Song of Solomon, he says that he had sixty queens, eighty concubines, and virgins without number, who were employed as maids and servants in his various palaces. Hence we ought... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - 1 Kings 11:42

1Ki 11:42 And the time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel [was] forty years. Ver. 42. And the time. ] Heb., Days; one of the shortest measures of time. Solomon Ecc 3:2 alloweth men a time to be born, and a time to die, but no time to live. Punctum est quod vivimus et puncto minus. a a Seneca. read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - 1 Kings 11:42

time: Heb. days forty years: Josephus says fourscore years; which is sufficiently absurd. Calmet supposes him to have been 18 years old when he came to the throne, and 58 when he died. 1 Kings 2:11 Reciprocal: 1 Kings 11:4 - when Solomon 2 Chronicles 9:30 - Solomon Ecclesiastes 1:1 - king read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - 1 Kings 11:42

And the time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel was forty years.Forty years — His reign was as long as his father's, but not his life; sin shortened his days. read more