Proverbs 31:3
New Living Translation
3 do not waste your strength on women,
on those who ruin kings.
Nehemiah 13:26
New Living Translation
26 “Wasn’t this exactly what led King Solomon of Israel into sin?” I demanded. “There was no king from any nation who could compare to him, and God loved him and made him king over all Israel. But even he was led into sin by his foreign wives.
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Deuteronomy 17:17
New Living Translation
17 The king must not take many wives for himself, because they will turn his heart away from the Lord. And he must not accumulate large amounts of wealth in silver and gold for himself.
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Proverbs 7:26-27
New Living Translation
26 For she has been the ruin of many;
many men have been her victims.
27 Her house is the road to the grave.[a]
Her bedroom is the den of death.
Footnotes
- 7:27 Hebrew to Sheol.
Proverbs 5:9-11
New Living Translation
9 If you do, you will lose your honor
and will lose to merciless people all you have achieved.
10 Strangers will consume your wealth,
and someone else will enjoy the fruit of your labor.
11 In the end you will groan in anguish
when disease consumes your body.
1 Kings 11:1
New Living Translation
Solomon’s Many Wives
11 Now King Solomon loved many foreign women. Besides Pharaoh’s daughter, he married women from Moab, Ammon, Edom, Sidon, and from among the Hittites.
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Hosea 4:11
New Living Translation
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