1 Kings 11:3
Good News Translation
Solomon married seven hundred princesses and also had three hundred concubines. They made him turn away from God,

New Revised Standard Version
Among his wives were seven hundred princesses and three hundred concubines; and his wives turned away his heart.

New American Bible
He had as wives seven hundred princesses and three hundred concubines, and they turned his heart.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he had seven hundred wives as queens, and three hundred concubines: and the women turned away his heart.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And he had seven hundred wives as queens, and three hundred concubines: and the women turned away his heart.

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Judges 8:30,31 And he had seventy sons, who came out of his thigh, for he had many wives. . . .

Judges 9:5 And he came to his father's house in Ephra, and slew his brethren, the sons of Jerobaal, seventy men, upon one stone: and there remained only Joatham, the youngest son of Jerobaal, who was hidden.

2 Samuel 3:2-5 And sons were born to David in Hebron: and his firstborn was Ammon of Achinoam the Jezrahelitess: . . .

2 Samuel 5:13-16 And David took more concubines and wives of Jerusalem, after he was come from Hebron: and there were born to David other sons also and daughters: . . .

2 Chronicles 11:21 And Roboam loved Maacha the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and concubines: for he had married eighteen wives, and threescore concubines: and he begot eight and twenty sons, and threescore daughters.

Ecclesiastes 7:28 Which yet my soul seeketh, and I have not found it. One man among a thousand I have found, a woman among them all I have not found.

Context
Solomon's Foreign Wives
2Of the nations concerning which the Lord said to the children of Israel: You shall not go in unto them, neither shall any of them come into yours: for they will most certainly turn away your hearts to follow their gods. And to these was Solomon joined with a most ardent love. 3And he had seven hundred wives as queens, and three hundred concubines: and the women turned away his heart.4And when he was now old, his heart was turned away by women to follow strange gods: and his heart was not perfect with the Lord his God, as was the heart of David, his father.…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 17:17
He shall not have many wives, that may allure his mind, nor immense sums of silver and gold.

2 Samuel 5:13
And David took more concubines and wives of Jerusalem, after he was come from Hebron: and there were born to David other sons also and daughters:

Ecclesiastes 7:28
Which yet my soul seeketh, and I have not found it. One man among a thousand I have found, a woman among them all I have not found.

Songs 6:8
There are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines, and young maidens without number.

Songs 6:9
One is my dove, my perfect one is but one, she is the only one of her mother, the chosen of her that bore her. The daughters saw her, and declared her most blessed: the queens and concubines, and they praised her.

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