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1 Kings 11:1
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1 Kings 11:1
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Solomon’s Errors
11 King Solomon loved many foreign women along with the daughter of Pharaoh: Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, and Hittite women,(A)
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1 Kings 11:1
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1 Kings 11:1
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Solomon’s Wives
11 King Solomon, however, loved many foreign women(A) besides Pharaoh’s daughter—Moabites, Ammonites,(B) Edomites, Sidonians and Hittites.
Deuteronomy 17:17
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Deuteronomy 17:17
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17 And he must not acquire many wives for himself or else his heart will turn away; also silver and gold he must not acquire in great quantity for himself.(A)
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Deuteronomy 17:17
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Deuteronomy 17:17
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17 He must not take many wives,(A) or his heart will be led astray.(B) He must not accumulate(C) large amounts of silver and gold.(D)
Proverbs 6:24
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Proverbs 6:24
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24 keeping you from your neighbor’s wife,
from the smooth talk of a wayward woman.(A)
Proverbs 7:5
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Proverbs 7:5
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5 They will keep you from the adulterous woman,
from the wayward woman with her seductive words.(A)
Proverbs 2:16
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Proverbs 2:16
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16 Wisdom will save you also from the adulterous woman,(A)
from the wayward woman with her seductive words,
Nehemiah 13:23-27
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Nehemiah 13:23-27
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Mixed Marriages Condemned
23 In those days also I saw Jews who had married women of Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab,(A) 24 and half of their children spoke the language of Ashdod, and they could not speak the language of Judah but spoke the language of various peoples. 25 And I contended with them and cursed them and beat some of the men and pulled out their hair, and I made them take an oath in the name of God, saying, “You shall not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons or for yourselves.(B) 26 Did not King Solomon of Israel sin on account of such women? Among the many nations there was no king like him, and he was beloved by his God, and God made him king over all Israel; nevertheless, foreign women made even him to sin.(C) 27 Shall we then listen to you and do all this great evil and act treacherously against our God by marrying foreign women?”(D)
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Nehemiah 13:23-27
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Nehemiah 13:23-27
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23 Moreover, in those days I saw men of Judah who had married(A) women from Ashdod, Ammon and Moab.(B) 24 Half of their children spoke the language of Ashdod or the language of one of the other peoples, and did not know how to speak the language(C) of Judah. 25 I rebuked them and called curses down on them. I beat some of the men and pulled out their hair. I made them take an oath(D) in God’s name and said: “You are not to give your daughters in marriage to their sons, nor are you to take their daughters in marriage for your sons or for yourselves.(E) 26 Was it not because of marriages like these that Solomon king of Israel sinned? Among the many nations there was no king like him.(F) He was loved by his God,(G) and God made him king over all Israel, but even he was led into sin by foreign women.(H) 27 Must we hear now that you too are doing all this terrible wickedness and are being unfaithful to our God by marrying(I) foreign women?”
1 Kings 11:8
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1 Kings 11:8
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8 He did the same for all his foreign wives who offered incense and sacrificed to their gods.
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8 He did the same for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and offered sacrifices to their gods.
Proverbs 22:14
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Proverbs 22:14
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14 The mouth of a loose woman[a] is a deep pit;
he with whom the Lord is angry falls into it.
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- 22.14 Heb strange woman
Proverbs 22:14
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Proverbs 22:14
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Proverbs 5:8-20
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Proverbs 5:8-20
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8 Keep your way far from her,
and do not go near the door of her house,(A)
9 lest you give your honor to others
and your years to the merciless,
10 and strangers take their fill of your wealth,
and your labors go to the house of an alien,
11 and at the end of your life you groan,
when your flesh and body are consumed,
12 and you say, “Oh, how I hated discipline,
and my heart despised reproof!(B)
13 I did not listen to the voice of my teachers
or incline my ear to my instructors.
14 Now I am at the point of utter ruin
in the public assembly.”
15 Drink water from your own cistern,
flowing water from your own well.
16 Should your springs be scattered abroad,
streams of water in the streets?(C)
17 Let them be for yourself alone
and not for sharing with strangers.
18 Let your fountain be blessed,
and rejoice in the wife of your youth,(D)
19 a lovely deer, a graceful doe.
May her breasts satisfy you at all times;
may you be intoxicated always by her love.(E)
20 Why should you be intoxicated, my son, by another woman
and embrace the bosom of an adulteress?[a](F)
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- 5.20 Heb alien woman
Proverbs 5:8-20
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Proverbs 5:8-20
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8 Keep to a path far from her,(A)
do not go near the door of her house,
9 lest you lose your honor to others
and your dignity[a] to one who is cruel,
10 lest strangers feast on your wealth
and your toil enrich the house of another.(B)
11 At the end of your life you will groan,
when your flesh and body are spent.
12 You will say, “How I hated discipline!
How my heart spurned correction!(C)
13 I would not obey my teachers
or turn my ear to my instructors.
14 And I was soon in serious trouble(D)
in the assembly of God’s people.”(E)
15 Drink water from your own cistern,
running water from your own well.
16 Should your springs overflow in the streets,
your streams of water in the public squares?
17 Let them be yours alone,
never to be shared with strangers.
18 May your fountain(F) be blessed,
and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth.(G)
19 A loving doe, a graceful deer(H)—
may her breasts satisfy you always,
may you ever be intoxicated with her love.
20 Why, my son, be intoxicated with another man’s wife?
Why embrace the bosom of a wayward woman?
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- Proverbs 5:9 Or years
1 Kings 3:1
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1 Kings 3:1
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Solomon’s Prayer for Wisdom
3 Solomon made a marriage alliance with Pharaoh king of Egypt; he took Pharaoh’s daughter and brought her into the city of David until he had finished building his own house and the house of the Lord and the wall around Jerusalem.(A)
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1 Kings 3:1
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Proverbs 23:33
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Proverbs 23:33
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33 Your eyes will see strange things,
and your mind utter perverse things.(A)
Proverbs 23:33
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Proverbs 23:33
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33 Your eyes will see strange sights,
and your mind will imagine confusing things.
Leviticus 18:18
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Leviticus 18:18
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18 And you shall not take[a] a woman as a rival to her sister, uncovering her nakedness while her sister is still alive.
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- 18.18 Or marry
Leviticus 18:18
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Leviticus 18:18
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18 “‘Do not take your wife’s sister(A) as a rival wife and have sexual relations with her while your wife is living.
Genesis 6:2-5
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Genesis 6:2-5
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2 the sons of God saw that they were fair, and they took wives for themselves of all that they chose.(A) 3 Then the Lord said, “My spirit shall not abide[a] in mortals forever, for they are flesh; their days shall be one hundred twenty years.”(B) 4 The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and also afterward—when the sons of God went in to the daughters of humans, who bore children to them. These were the heroes that were of old, warriors of renown.
5 The Lord saw that the wickedness of humans was great in the earth and that every inclination of the thoughts of their hearts was only evil continually.(C)
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- 6.3 Meaning of Heb uncertain
Genesis 6:2-5
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Genesis 6:2-5
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2 the sons of God(A) saw that the daughters(B) of humans were beautiful,(C) and they married(D) any of them they chose. 3 Then the Lord said, “My Spirit(E) will not contend with[a] humans forever,(F) for they are mortal[b];(G) their days will be a hundred and twenty years.”
4 The Nephilim(H) were on the earth in those days—and also afterward—when the sons of God went to the daughters of humans(I) and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown.(J)
5 The Lord saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth,(K) and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil all the time.(L)
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- Genesis 6:3 Or My spirit will not remain in
- Genesis 6:3 Or corrupt
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