Who were Solomon's wives?

Naamah was one of the 700 wives and concubines of King Solomon and mother of his heir, Rehoboam, according to both 1 Kings 14:21–31, and 2 Chronicles 12:13 in the Hebrew Bible. She was an Ammonite, and, as such, one of only two of all the Queen Mothers of Israel or Judah who was a foreigner.

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How many wives did Solomon have according to the Bible?

They were from nations about which the LORD had told the Israelites, "You must not intermarry with them, because they will surely turn your hearts after their gods." Nevertheless, Solomon held fast to them in love. He had seven hundred wives of royal birth and three hundred concubines, and his wives led him astray.
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Who was Solomon Favourite wife?

Interesting were last week's despatches from the Cairo newspaper Mokattam that diggers have found the rich tomb of Solomon's favorite wife Moti Maris of Memphis, on the Mount of the Temple (Jerusalem's Mount Moriah).
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Did Solomon marry the Queen of Sheba?

Rabbah 27:4). This midrash of the queen's conversion may have led to the development of a literary tradition that appears in a later midrash, according to which Solomon married the Queen of Sheba and she bore him a son named Ben Sira (Alphabet of Ben Sira, in Ozar ha-Midrashim [Eisenstein], p.
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What happened to Solomon's wife?

A marriage alliance

"And Solomon became allied to Pharaoh king of Egypt by marriage, 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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Which king married his own daughter?

Egypt's King Tut born of incestuous marriage.
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Did King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba have a child together?

She stayed and learned from him for six months. On the last night of her visit, he tricked her into his bed, and she became pregnant. She returned to her kingdom, where she bore Solomon a son, Menilek.
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How long did the Queen of Sheba stay with Solomon?

According to this tradition, the Queen of Sheba (called Makeda) visited Solomon's court after hearing about his wisdom. She stayed and learned from him for six months.
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Who was Candace in the Bible?

A “Candace, queen of the Ethiopians” is mentioned in the Bible when the apostle Philip meets “a eunuch of great authority” under her reign and converts him to Christianity (Acts 8:27-39). In this passage, as in other ancient works mentioning the Candace, the royal title has often been confused with a personal name.
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Did Jesus have a wife?

"Christian tradition has long held that Jesus was not married, even though no reliable historical evidence exists to support that claim," King said in a press release.
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Who was King Solomon's lover?

Now King Solomon loved many foreign women: the daught Pharaoh, and Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, and Hit women ... Solomon clung to these in love.
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Who is the bride in Song of Solomon?

The person of Mary can be seen in many ways in the Old Testament. One of the more popular images of Mary from the Old Testament is the "Bride" in the Song of Songs.
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Who had the most wives in the Bible?

Wives and concubines

According to the biblical account, Solomon had 700 wives and 300 concubines. The wives were described as foreign princesses, including Pharaoh's daughter and women of Moab, Ammon, Edom, Sidon and of the Hittites.
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Why did King Solomon have many wives?

His wives were to have included the daughter of Pharaoh, as well as women of Moabite, Edomite, Sidonian, and Hittite origins (1 Kgs 7:8; 11:1). The latter group is usually understood to represent wives who were added to the harem as a means of sealing treaty agreements with these five foreign powers.
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How many wives did King Solomon have KJV?

[3] And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines: and his wives turned away his heart. [4] For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his heart after other gods: and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God, as was the heart of David his father.
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Who was David's favorite wife?

Megillah 15a). They claim that she was David's favorite wife and was therefore called “Eglah” (calf), because she was as beloved to him as a calf. Eglah, the name of one of David's wives, is mentioned in II Sam. 3:5.
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Who was David married to when he slept with Bathsheba?

While Uriah was serving in David's army abroad, David himself, from the roof of his palace, looked down on his city and spied upon Bathsheba bathing in the privacy of her courtyard. Moved by lust at the sight of her, David called for her to be brought to him and slept with her, impregnating her.
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What happened to Michal David's wife?

After Michal was returned to David, she criticised him for dancing in an undignified manner, as he brought the Ark of the Covenant to the newly captured Jerusalem in a religious procession. For this she is punished, according to Samuel, with not having children till the day she dies.
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What did the Queen of Sheba look like?

Although many western artists portray her as white, she would have been dark-skinned. She is most famous for her extreme wealth, so she likely wore finely made clothes and adorned herself with jewelry. The Queen of Sheba being received by King Solomon.
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Who is the Queen of Sheba today?

The realm of Sheba remains lost to history. The two leading locations are the kingdom of Saba in modern Yemen and the ancient kingdom of Aksum in Ethiopia. After more than a century of excavations by a host of archaeologists to find physical evidence of the existence of the queen, none yet has been found.
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Is Haile Selassie related to Solomon?

Lineage. Many Rastafarians trace Haile Selassie's lineage back to King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. They believe that the Queen of Sheba's visit to King Solomon found in the Book of Kings (1 Kings 10:1-13) provides further proof of the divinity of Haile Selassie I.
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Was Bilquis a jinn?

Thus was born the beautiful Bilqis (aka the Queen of Sheba) from the union of a jinn mother (or father) and a human father (or mother) (Figure 1.2). Whether from her mother, her father, or both, Bilqis inherited supernatural power and carried it in her veins.
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