Pharaoh

Mentioned 1014–983 BC traditional (Jones)

The Pharaoh of 1 Kings 11:18-22.

From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897).

Partner: Tahpenes
Child: Daughter of Pharaoh
Tagged in: 9 verses

Mentioned in the era of the Kingdom, 1050–587 BC.
Named in the same verses as Solomon, Daughter of Pharaoh, David, Hadad, Pharaoh, Sister of Tahpenes, Tahpenes, and Genubath.

Computed from the data. Years are traditional (Jones).

Family

Two generations up and the children. Gold lines join partners; grey lines run from parent to child; a dotted line marks a parent named in the text but not by descent.

Places

Places named in the same verses as Pharaoh, with the number of verses they share; a larger marker means more. Locations follow OpenBible.info, which grades each identification. A dashed ring on the map marks a region, river, or mountain rather than a town.

location not graded: Egypt4
likely location: Gezer1
likely location: Jerusalem1
location not graded: Midian1
location not graded: Paran1

Timeline

The strip runs from Creation to AD 100; the shaded part, 1039–958 BC, is drawn below at a larger scale around these mentions, with 3 contemporaries. Years are traditional (Jones), shown as recorded, not as settled fact.

Mentions

9 tagged verses in 2 books. Select a book to read its verses.

1 Kings8
2 Chronicles1

The name in each translation

Text	Occurrences of each name
BSB	Pharaoh 275
KJV	Pharaoh 279
ASV	Pharaoh 280

Whole-word, case-sensitive count of the name string (regex \bName\b, so possessives like "Abraham's" count) across the whole Bible text of each translation; this counts the string, not the person, so other people who share the name are included and pronoun references are not. How Begat counts

Every verse

All 9 tagged verses, by book, in canonical order. The Berean Standard Bible is shown; switch to the King James or American Standard Version.

1 Kings8 verses

3:1
Later, Solomon formed an alliance with Pharaoh king of Egypt by marrying his daughter. Solomon brought her to the City of David until he had finished building his palace and the house of the LORD, as well as the wall around Jerusalem.
9:16
Pharaoh king of Egypt had attacked and captured Gezer. He had set it on fire, killed the Canaanites who lived in the city, and given it as a dowry to his daughter, Solomon’s wife.
11:1
King Solomon, however, loved many foreign women along with the daughter of Pharaoh—women of Moab, Ammon, Edom, and Sidon, as well as Hittite women.
11:18
Hadad and his men set out from Midian and went to Paran. They took men from Paran with them and went to Egypt, to Pharaoh king of Egypt, who gave Hadad a house and land and provided him with food.
11:19
There Hadad found such great favor in the sight of Pharaoh that he gave to him in marriage the sister of Queen Tahpenes, his own wife.
11:20
And the sister of Tahpenes bore Hadad a son named Genubath. Tahpenes herself weaned him in Pharaoh’s palace, and Genubath lived there among the sons of Pharaoh.
11:21
When Hadad heard in Egypt that David had rested with his fathers and that Joab, the commander of the army, was dead, he said to Pharaoh, “Let me go, that I may return to my own country.”
11:22
But Pharaoh asked him, “What have you lacked here with me that you suddenly want to go back to your own country?” “Nothing,” Hadad replied, “but please let me go.”

2 Chronicles1 verse

8:11
Solomon brought the daughter of Pharaoh up from the City of David to the palace he had built for her. For he said, “My wife must not live in the house of David king of Israel, because the places the ark of the LORD has entered are holy.”

Easton’s Bible Dictionary

The full entry, public domain, as printed in 1897.