Nehemiah 13:26
Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? Yet there was no king like him among many nations, and he was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel. Nevertheless foreign women caused even him to sin.
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2 Samuel 12:25and he sent by the hand of Nathan the prophet. And he called his name Jedidiah, for LORD's sake.
1 Kings 3:13And I have also given thee that which thou have not asked, both riches and honor, so that there shall not be any among the kings like thee all thy days.
1 Kings 11:1Now king Solomon loved many foreign women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites,
1 Kings 21:25(But there was none like Ahab, who sold himself to do that which was evil in the sight of LORD, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up.
2 Chronicles 9:22So king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth in riches and wisdom.
Ecclesiastes 7:26And I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and nets, [and] whose hands are chains. He who pleases God shall escape from her, but the sinner shall be taken by her.
Matthew Henry on Nehemiah 13:24-31
The Dismissal of Strange Wives. ( b. c. 434.) 23 In those days also saw I Jews that had married wives of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab: 24 And their children spake half in the speech of Ashdod, and could not speak in the Jews' language, but according to the language of each people. 25 And I contended with them, and cursed them, and smote certain of them, and plucked off their hair, and made them swear by God, saying, Ye shall not give your daughters unto their sons, nor take their daughters unto your sons, or for… Read the whole commentary →