² from the nations about which the Lord had told the Israelites, “You must not intermarry with them, and they must not intermarry with you, because they will turn your heart away to follow their gods.”^(A) To these women Solomon was deeply attached^[a] in love. ³ He had seven hundred wives who were princesses and three hundred who were concubines,^(B) and they turned his heart away.^(C)

⁴ When Solomon was old, his wives turned his heart away to follow other gods. He was not wholeheartedly devoted to the Lord his God, as his father David had been.^(D)