Women in the Bible

Daughter of Pharaoh (Solomon’s Marriage Alliance)

1 Kings 3:1; 7:8; 9:16, 24; 11:1; 2 Chronicles 8:11

• 1 Kings 3:1 Solomon made a marriage alliance with Pharaoh king of Egypt; he took Pharaoh’s daughter and brought her into the city of David until he had finished building his own house and the house of the Lord and the wall around Jerusalem.

• 1 Kings 11:1 King Solomon loved many foreign women along with the daughter of Pharaoh: Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, and Hittite women…

• 2 Chronicles 8:11 Solomon brought Pharaoh’s daughter from the city of David to the house that he had built for her, for he said, “My wife shall not live in the house of King David of Israel, for the places to which the ark of the Lord has come are holy.”

List of Reading & Resources:

Articles

• Women in Ancient Egypt by Gay Robins (1993)

Books

• “Daughter of Pharaoh” (pp.268) by Susan Tower Hollis in Women in Scripture: A Dictionary of Named and Unnamed Women in the Hebrew Bible, the Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical Books, and the New Testament edited by Carol Meyers (2001)

• “1 and 2 Kings” (pp. 164-179) by Cameron B. R. Howard in The Women’s Bible Commentary, edited by Carol A. Newsom, Sharon H. Ringe, and Jacqueline E. Lapsley (2012)

• The lsraelite Woman: Social Role and Literary Type in Biblical Narrative by Athalya Brenner (1985)