⁴ Some time later, he fell in love^(A) with a woman in the Valley of Sorek whose name was Delilah.^(B)

⁶ Now these things occurred as examples^(A) to keep us from setting our hearts on evil things as they did.

²⁶ Was it not because of marriages like these that Solomon king of Israel sinned? Among the many nations there was no king like him.^(A) He was loved by his God,^(B) and God made him king over all Israel, but even he was led into sin by foreign women.^(C)

Solomon’s Wives

11 King Solomon, however, loved many foreign women^(A) besides Pharaoh’s daughter—Moabites, Ammonites,^(B) Edomites, Sidonians and Hittites.