1 Kings 11:1-3

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Solomon’s Forbidden Marriages and Idolatry^(A)

11 But King Solomon married^[a] many foreign women besides the daughter of Pharaoh: women from Moab, Ammon, Edom, and Sidonia, along with Hittite women, too, ² all of them from nations that the Lord had ordered the Israelis, “You are not to associate with^[b] them and they are not to associate with you, because they will most certainly turn your affections^[c] away to follow their gods.” Solomon became deeply attached to them by falling in love. ³ He had 700 princess wives and 300 mistresses^[d] who^[e] turned his heart away from the Lord,^[f]