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1Ki 3:1 — And Solomon made affinity with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and took Pharaoh's daughter, and brought her into the city of David, until he had made an end of building his own house, and the house of the LORD, and the wall of Jerusalem round about.
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Entire Verse.   A. M. 2990. B.C. 1014.
Entire Verse.   An. Ex. Is. 477.
affinity   2Ch 18:1; Ezr 9:14
and took   1Ki 7:8; 1Ki 9:24; 1Ki 11:1
the city   2Sa 5:7; 1Ch 11:7
his own   1Ki 7:1-12
the house   1Ki 6:1-38; 1Ki 7:13-15; 2Ch 2-4; Ezr 5:11
the wall   1Ki 9:15-19
Correlating Passages
affinity
2Ch 18:1 Now Jehoshaphat had riches and honour in abundance, and joined affinity with Ahab.
Ezr 9:14 Should we again break thy commandments, and join in affinity with the people of these abominations? wouldest not thou be angry with us till thou hadst consumed [us], so that [there should be] no remnant nor escaping?
and took
1Ki 7:8 And his house where he dwelt [had] another court within the porch, [which] was of the like work. Solomon made also an house for Pharaoh's daughter, whom he had taken [to wife], like unto this porch.
1Ki 9:24 But Pharaoh's daughter came up out of the city of David unto her house which [Solomon] had built for her: then did he build Millo.
1Ki 11:1 But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, [and] Hittites;
the city
2Sa 5:7 Nevertheless David took the strong hold of Zion: the same [is] the city of David.
1Ch 11:7 And David dwelt in the castle; therefore they called it the city of David.
his own
1Ki 7:1 But Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house.
1Ki 7:2 He built also the house of the forest of Lebanon; the length thereof [was] an hundred cubits, and the breadth thereof fifty cubits, and the height thereof thirty cubits, upon four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams upon the pillars.
1Ki 7:3 And [it was] covered with cedar above upon the beams, that [lay] on forty five pillars, fifteen [in] a row.
1Ki 7:4 And [there were] windows [in] three rows, and light [was] against light [in] three ranks.
1Ki 7:5 And all the doors and posts [were] square, with the windows: and light [was] against light [in] three ranks.
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the house
1Ki 6:1 And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month Zif, which [is] the second month, that he began to build the house of the LORD.
1Ki 6:2 And the house which king Solomon built for the LORD, the length thereof [was] threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty [cubits], and the height thereof thirty cubits.
1Ki 6:3 And the porch before the temple of the house, twenty cubits [was] the length thereof, according to the breadth of the house; [and] ten cubits [was] the breadth thereof before the house.
1Ki 6:4 And for the house he made windows of narrow lights.
1Ki 6:5 And against the wall of the house he built chambers round about, [against] the walls of the house round about, [both] of the temple and of the oracle: and he made chambers round about:
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1Ki 7:13 And king Solomon sent and fetched Hiram out of Tyre.
1Ki 7:14 He [was] a widow's son of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father [was] a man of Tyre, a worker in brass: and he was filled with wisdom, and understanding, and cunning to work all works in brass. And he came to king Solomon, and wrought all his work.
1Ki 7:15 For he cast two pillars of brass, of eighteen cubits high apiece: and a line of twelve cubits did compass either of them about.
2Ch 2:1 And Solomon determined to build an house for the name of the LORD, and an house for his kingdom.
2Ch 2:2 And Solomon told out threescore and ten thousand men to bear burdens, and fourscore thousand to hew in the mountain, and three thousand and six hundred to oversee them.
2Ch 2:3 And Solomon sent to Huram the king of Tyre, saying, As thou didst deal with David my father, and didst send him cedars to build him an house to dwell therein, [even so deal with me].
2Ch 2:4 Behold, I build an house to the name of the LORD my God, to dedicate [it] to him, [and] to burn before him sweet incense, and for the continual shewbread, and for the burnt offerings morning and evening, on the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the solemn feasts of the LORD our God. This [is an ordinance] for ever to Israel.
2Ch 2:5 And the house which I build [is] great: for great [is] our God above all gods.
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Ezr 5:11 And thus they returned us answer, saying, We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth, and build the house that was builded these many years ago, which a great king of Israel builded and set up.
the wall
1Ki 9:15 And this [is] the reason of the levy which king Solomon raised; for to build the house of the LORD, and his own house, and Millo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer.
1Ki 9:16 [For] Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up, and taken Gezer, and burnt it with fire, and slain the Canaanites that dwelt in the city, and given it [for] a present unto his daughter, Solomon's wife.
1Ki 9:17 And Solomon built Gezer, and Bethhoron the nether,
1Ki 9:18 And Baalath, and Tadmor in the wilderness, in the land,
1Ki 9:19 And all the cities of store that Solomon had, and cities for his chariots, and cities for his horsemen, and that which Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.

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Scott, Thomas. "1 Kings 3:1," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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