⁸ And so he did for all his foreign wives, who made offerings and sacrificed to their gods.

²⁰ No, I imply that what pagans sacrifice ^(A)they offer to demons and not to God. I do not want you to be participants with demons. ^21 (B)You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and ^(C)the cup of demons. You cannot partake of the table of the Lord and ^(D)the table of demons. ^22 (E)Shall we provoke the Lord to jealousy? ^(F)Are we stronger than he?

¹¹ Now these things happened to them as an example, but ^(A)they were written down for our instruction, ^(B)on whom the end of the ages has come. ¹² Therefore ^(C)let anyone who thinks that he stands take heed lest he fall.

²² And in all your abominations and your whorings you did not remember ^(A)the days of your youth, ^(B)when you were naked and bare, wallowing in your blood.

²³ “And after all your wickedness (woe, woe to you! declares the Lord God), ²⁴ you built yourself ^(C)a vaulted chamber and made yourself a lofty place in every square. ²⁵ At the head of every street ^(D)you built your lofty place and made ^(E)your beauty an abomination, ^(F)offering yourself^[a] to any passerby and multiplying your whoring. ^26 (G)You also played the whore ^(H)with the Egyptians, your lustful neighbors, ^(I)multiplying your whoring, ^(J)to provoke me to anger. ²⁷ Behold, therefore, I stretched out my hand against you ^(K)and diminished your allotted portion ^(L)and delivered you to the greed of your enemies, ^(M)the daughters of the Philistines, who were ashamed of your lewd behavior. ^28 (N)You played the whore also ^(O)with the Assyrians, because you were not satisfied; yes, you played the whore with them, and still you were not satisfied. ²⁹ You multiplied your whoring also with the trading land ^(P)of Chaldea, and even with this you were not satisfied.

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,