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Solomon’s Foreign Wives

11 King Solomon loved many foreign women: the daughter of Pharaoh, Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, Hittite; from the nations which Yahweh had said to the Israelites,[a] “You shall not marry them,[b] and they shall not marry you.[c] They will certainly turn your heart after other gods.” But Solomon clung to them to love. He had seven hundred princesses and three hundred concubines, and his wives turned his heart.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 11:2 Literally “sons/children of Israel”
  2. 1 Kings 11:2 Literally “go into them”
  3. 1 Kings 11:2 Literally “go into you”