Pharaoh פַּרְעֹה

A Pharaoh. Pharaoh, the Egyptian ruler who made an alliance with King Solomon and gave him his daughter in marriage.

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Where Pharaoh appears

1 Kings (10), 2 Chronicles (1), Song of Solomon (1)

Key verses

• 1 Kings 3:1 first mention — 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.
• 1 Kings 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.
• 1 Kings 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.
• 1 Kings 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.
• 1 Kings 11:1 — But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites;
• 1 Kings 11:18 — And they arose out of Midian, and came to Paran: and they took men with them out of Paran, and they came to Egypt, unto Pharaoh king of Egypt; which gave him an house, and appointed him victuals, and gave him land.
• 1 Kings 11:19 — And Hadad found great favour in the sight of Pharaoh, so that he gave him to wife the sister of his own wife, the sister of Tahpenes the queen.
• 1 Kings 11:20 — And the sister of Tahpenes bare him Genubath his son, whom Tahpenes weaned in Pharaoh’s house: and Genubath was in Pharaoh’s household among the sons of Pharaoh.
• 1 Kings 11:21 — And when Hadad heard in Egypt that David slept with his fathers, and that Joab the captain of the host was dead, Hadad said to Pharaoh, Let me depart, that I may go to mine own country.
• 1 Kings 11:22 — Then Pharaoh said unto him, But what hast thou lacked with me, that, behold, thou seekest to go to thine own country? And he answered, Nothing: howbeit let me go in any wise.
• 2 Chronicles 8:11 — And Solomon brought up the daughter of Pharaoh out of the city of David unto the house that he had built for her: for he said, My wife shall not dwell in the house of David king of Israel, because the places are holy, whereunto the ark of the LORD hath come.
• Song of Solomon 1:9 — I have compared thee, O my love, to a company of horses in Pharaoh’s chariots.

Person data: STEPBible.org TIPNR, Tyndale House Cambridge (CC BY 4.0), adapted. Several people in the Bible share this name; this page is about the one described above. Verse text: King James Version.