Solomon’s Heart Turns from the Lord

11 But (A)King Solomon loved (B)many foreign women, as well as the daughter of Pharaoh: women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites—

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17 Neither shall he multiply wives for himself, lest his heart turn away; nor shall he greatly multiply silver and (A)gold for himself.

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24 (A)To keep you from the evil woman,
From the flattering tongue of a seductress.

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(A)That they may keep you from the immoral woman,
From the seductress who flatters with her words.

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16 To deliver you from (A)the immoral woman,
(B)From the seductress who flatters with her words,

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23 In those days I also saw Jews who (A)had married women of (B)Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab. 24 And half of their children spoke the language of Ashdod, and could not speak the language of Judah, but spoke according to the language of one or the other people.

25 So I (C)contended with them and [a]cursed them, struck some of them and pulled out their hair, and made them (D)swear by God, saying, “You shall not give your daughters as wives to their sons, nor take their daughters for your sons or yourselves. 26 (E)Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? Yet among many nations there was no king like him, (F)who was beloved of his God; and God made him king over all Israel. (G)Nevertheless pagan women caused even him to sin. 27 Should we then hear of your doing all this great evil, (H)transgressing against our God by marrying pagan women?”

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Footnotes

  1. Nehemiah 13:25 pronounced them cursed

And he did likewise for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods.

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14 (A)The mouth of an immoral woman is a deep pit;
(B)He who is abhorred by the Lord will fall there.

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Remove your way far from her,
And do not go near the door of her house,
Lest you give your [a]honor to others,
And your years to the cruel one;
10 Lest aliens be filled with your [b]wealth,
And your labors go to the house of a foreigner;
11 And you mourn at last,
When your flesh and your body are consumed,
12 And say:
“How I have hated instruction,
And my heart despised correction!
13 I have not obeyed the voice of my teachers,
Nor inclined my ear to those who instructed me!
14 I was on the verge of total ruin,
In the midst of the assembly and congregation.”

15 Drink water from your own cistern,
And running water from your own well.
16 Should your fountains be dispersed abroad,
[c]Streams of water in the streets?
17 Let them be only your own,
And not for strangers with you.
18 Let your fountain be blessed,
And rejoice with (A)the wife of your youth.
19 (B)As a loving deer and a graceful doe,
Let her breasts satisfy you at all times;
And always be [d]enraptured with her love.
20 For why should you, my son, be enraptured by (C)an immoral woman,
And be embraced in the arms of a seductress?

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 5:9 vigor
  2. Proverbs 5:10 Lit. strength
  3. Proverbs 5:16 Channels
  4. Proverbs 5:19 Lit. intoxicated

Solomon Requests Wisdom(A)

Now (B)Solomon made [a]a treaty with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and married Pharaoh’s daughter; then he brought her (C)to the City of David until he had finished building his (D)own house, and (E)the house of the Lord, and (F)the wall all around Jerusalem.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 3:1 an alliance

33 Your eyes will see strange things,
And your heart will utter perverse things.

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18 Nor shall you take a woman (A)as a rival to her sister, to uncover her nakedness while the other is alive.

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that the sons of God saw the daughters of men, that they were beautiful; and they (A)took wives for themselves of all whom they chose.

And the Lord said, (B)“My Spirit shall not (C)strive[a] with man forever, (D)for he is indeed flesh; yet his days shall be one hundred and twenty years.” There were [b]giants on the earth in those (E)days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.

Then [c]the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every (F)intent[d] of the thoughts of his heart was only evil [e]continually.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 6:3 LXX, Syr., Tg., Vg. abide
  2. Genesis 6:4 Heb. nephilim, fallen or mighty ones
  3. Genesis 6:5 So with MT, Tg.; Vg. God; LXX Lord God
  4. Genesis 6:5 thought
  5. Genesis 6:5 all the day

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