⁸ He did the same for all his foreign wives who offered incense and sacrificed to their gods.

²⁰ No, I imply that what they^[a] sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons and not to God. I do not want you to be partners with demons.^{(A) 21} You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You cannot partake of the table of the Lord and the table of demons.^{(B) 22} Or are we provoking the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?^(C)

¹¹ These things happened to them to serve as an example, and they were written down to instruct us, on whom the ends of the ages have come.^{(A) 12} So if you think you are standing, watch out that you do not fall.

The Idolatry of Israel

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

²³ After all your wickedness (woe, woe to you! says the Lord God), ²⁴ you built yourself a platform and made yourself a lofty place in every square;^{(B) 25} at the head of every street you built your lofty place and prostituted your beauty, offering yourself^[a] to every passer-by and multiplying your prostitution.^{(C) 26} You prostituted yourself with the Egyptians, your lustful neighbors,^[b] multiplying your prostitution, to provoke me to anger.^{(D) 27} Therefore I stretched out my hand against you, reduced your rations, and gave you up to the will of your enemies, the daughters of the Philistines, who were ashamed of your lewd behavior.^{(E) 28} You prostituted yourself with the Assyrians because you were insatiable; you prostituted yourself with them, and still you were not satisfied.^{(F) 29} You multiplied your prostitution with Chaldea, the land of merchants, and even with this you were not satisfied.^(G)

Solomon’s Errors

11 King Solomon loved many foreign women along with the daughter of Pharaoh: Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, and Hittite women,^(A)