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An Architectural Capriccio with David, Bathsheba and Solomon, Giovanni Paolo Panini

1 Kings 11:3

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1 Kings 11:3 (WEB)

He had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines. His wives turned his heart away.

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Jerome

  • “…not add the words of the Canticles: “There are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines, and maidens without number,” and those of the First Book of Kings; And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines, and others without number.”” — editor's note: 1 Kings xi. 3.

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  • “Wisdom used him to sing her praise, and he treated of all plants “from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall;” and yet he went back from God because he was a lover of women.” — editor's note: 1 Kings xi. 1–4.

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