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Solomon’s Forbidden Marriages and Idolatry(A)

11 But King Solomon married[a] many foreign women besides the daughter of Pharaoh: women from Moab, Ammon, Edom, and Sidonia, along with Hittite women, too, all of them from nations that the Lord had ordered the Israelis, “You are not to associate with[b] them and they are not to associate with you, because they will most certainly turn your affections[c] away to follow their gods.” Solomon became deeply attached to them by falling in love.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 11:1 Lit. loved
  2. 1 Kings 11:2 Lit. to go in to
  3. 1 Kings 11:2 Lit. hearts