(A)Do not give your strength to women,
Nor your ways (B)to that which destroys kings.

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26 (A)Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? Yet among many nations there was no king like him, (B)who was beloved of his God; and God made him king over all Israel. (C)Nevertheless pagan women caused even him to sin.

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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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26 For she has cast down many wounded,
And (A)all who were slain by her were strong men.
27 (B)Her house is the way to [a]hell,
Descending to the chambers of death.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 7:27 Or Sheol

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,

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 5:9 vigor
  2. Proverbs 5:10 Lit. strength

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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The Idolatry of Israel

11 “Harlotry, wine, and new wine (A)enslave the heart.

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