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Do not give your strength to women,
    your ways to those who destroy kings.(A)

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26 Did not King Solomon of Israel sin on account of such women? Among the many nations there was no king like him, and he was beloved by his God, and God made him king over all Israel; nevertheless, foreign women made even him to sin.(A)

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17 And he must not acquire many wives for himself or else his heart will turn away; also silver and gold he must not acquire in great quantity for himself.(A)

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26 For many are those she has laid low,
    and numerous are her victims.(A)
27 Her house is the way to Sheol,
    going down to the chambers of death.(B)

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lest you give your honor to others
    and your years to the merciless,
10 and strangers take their fill of your wealth,
    and your labors go to the house of an alien,
11 and at the end of your life you groan,
    when your flesh and body are consumed,

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Solomon’s Errors

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

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11     prostitution.

The Idolatry of Israel

Wine and new wine
    take away the understanding.(A)

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