And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three
hundred
concubines
In all 1000, a prodigious number; though these might not be all
for use, but for state after the manner of the eastern monarchs;
these were a far greater number than are alluded to in ( Song of
Solomon 6:8 ) , unless the virgins without number there, were
such of these as were not defiled by him; but the number here
seems plainly referred to in ( Ecclesiastes
7:28 ) ,
and his wives turned away his heart;
both from his duty to his God, and from attendance to his
business as a king, especially the former, as follows.