1 Kings 11:1-3

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Solomon Turns from God

11 Now king Solomon [defiantly] loved ^[a]many foreign women along with the daughter of Pharaoh: Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, and Hittite women, ²from the very nations of whom the Lord said to the Israelites, “You shall not associate with them, nor shall they associate with you, for the result will be that they will turn away your hearts to follow their gods.” Yet Solomon clung to these in love.^(A) ³He had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred ^[b]concubines, and his wives turned his heart away [from God].

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Footnotes

1 Kings 11:1 It was a common practice among pagan rulers in the Near East to ratify treaties with other kingdoms by marriage to foreign wives. In Deut 17:17 the kings of Israel were strictly forbidden from participating in such alliances. Solomon’s defiance of God’s command led him into sin and the loss of his kingdom.
1 Kings 11:3 See note Gen 22:24.