1. 1 Kings 11:1 (ESV)
  2. Exposition

Why is the daughter of Pharaoh mentioned?

1 Kings 11:1 (ESV)

1 Now King Solomon loved many foreign women, along with the daughter of Pharaoh: Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, and Hittite women,

At the beginning of Solomon’s reign, the princess of Egypt becomes Solomon’s wife (1 Kings 3:1). Solomon gave her all the honour and respect due to a queen. He brought her into the palace that David his father had built. She is referred to in the Bible as Solomon’s wife (1 Kings 7:8). She is mentioned here as his first wife, the queen, but it does not say that her gods drew Solomon’s heart from God. This was done by the Canaanite women.