1 Kings 11:1
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Solomon Turns from the Lord
11 Now (A)King Solomon loved many foreign women, along with the daughter of Pharaoh: Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, and Hittite women,
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Deuteronomy 17:17
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17 And he (A)shall not acquire many wives for himself, lest his heart turn away, (B)nor shall he acquire for himself excessive silver and gold.
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Proverbs 6:24
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Footnotes
- Proverbs 6:24 Revocalization (compare Septuagint) yields from the wife of a neighbor
- Proverbs 6:24 Hebrew the foreign woman
Proverbs 7:5
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- Proverbs 7:5 Hebrew strange
- Proverbs 7:5 Hebrew the foreign woman
Proverbs 2:16
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16 So (A)you will be delivered from the forbidden[a] woman,
from (B)the adulteress[b] with (C)her smooth words,
Footnotes
- Proverbs 2:16 Hebrew strange
- Proverbs 2:16 Hebrew foreign woman
Nehemiah 13:23-27
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23 In those days also I saw the Jews (A)who had married women (B)of Ashdod, (C)Ammon, and (D)Moab. 24 And half of their children spoke the language of Ashdod, and they could not speak the language of Judah, but only the language of each people. 25 (E)And I confronted them and cursed them and beat some of them and pulled out their hair. (F)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. 26 (G)Did not Solomon king of Israel sin on account of such women? (H)Among the many nations there was no king like him, and he was (I)beloved by his God, and God made him king over all Israel. Nevertheless, foreign women made even him to sin. 27 Shall we then listen to you and do all this great evil and (J)act treacherously against our God by marrying foreign women?”
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1 Kings 11:8
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8 And so he did for all his foreign wives, who made offerings and sacrificed to their gods.
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Proverbs 22:14
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14 The mouth of (A)forbidden[a] women is (B)a deep pit;
(C)he with whom the Lord is angry will fall into it.
Footnotes
- Proverbs 22:14 Hebrew strange
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,
9 lest you give your honor to others
and your years to the merciless,
10 lest strangers take their fill of your strength,
and your (A)labors go to the house of a foreigner,
11 and at the end of your life you (B)groan,
when your flesh and body are consumed,
12 and you say, (C)“How I hated discipline,
and my heart (D)despised reproof!
13 I did not listen to the voice of my teachers
or incline my ear to my instructors.
14 (E)I am at the brink of utter ruin
in the assembled congregation.”
15 Drink (F)water from your own cistern,
flowing water from your own well.
16 Should your (G)springs be scattered abroad,
streams of water (H)in the streets?
17 (I)Let them be for yourself alone,
and not for strangers with you.
18 Let your (J)fountain be blessed,
and (K)rejoice in (L)the wife of your youth,
19 a lovely (M)deer, a graceful doe.
Let her breasts (N)fill you at all times with delight;
be intoxicated[a] always in her love.
20 Why should you be intoxicated, my son, with (O)a forbidden woman
and embrace the bosom of (P)an adulteress?[b]
Footnotes
- Proverbs 5:19 Hebrew be led astray; also verse 20
- Proverbs 5:20 Hebrew a foreign woman
1 Kings 3:1
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Proverbs 23:33
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33 Your eyes will see strange things,
and your heart utter (A)perverse things.
Leviticus 18:18
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18 And you shall not take a woman as a (A)rival wife to her sister, uncovering her nakedness (B)while her sister is still alive.
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Genesis 6:2-5
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2 the sons of God saw that the daughters of man were attractive. And they took as their wives any they chose. 3 Then the Lord said, (A)“My Spirit shall not abide in[a] man forever, (B)for he is flesh: his days shall be 120 years.” 4 The Nephilim[b] were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of man and they bore children to them. These were the mighty men who were of old, the men of renown.
5 (C)The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every (D)intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
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- Genesis 6:3 Or My Spirit shall not contend with
- Genesis 6:4 Or giants
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