Nehemiah 13:26

Did not Solomon king of Israel sin in this kind of thing? and surely among many nations, there was not a king like him, and he was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel: m and yet women of other countries brought even him to sin.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? yet among many nations was there no king like him, who was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel: nevertheless even him did outlandish women cause to sin.

In Context

25And I chid them, and laid my curse upon them. And I beat some of them, and shaved off their hair, and made them swear by God that they would not give their daughters to their sons, nor take their daughters for their sons, nor for themselves, saying:

27And shall we also be disobedient and do all this great evil to transgress against our God, and marry strange women?

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Cross References

2 Samuel 12:25And he sent by the hand of Nathan the prophet, and called his name, Amiable to the Lord, because the Lord loved him.

1 Kings 3:13Yea and the things also which thou didst not ask, I have given thee: to wit riches and glory, as that no one hath been like thee among the kings in all days heretofore.

1 Kings 11:1And king Solomon loved many strange women besides the daughter of Pharao, and women of Moab, and of Ammon, and of Edom, and of Sidon, and of the Hethites:

1 Kings 21:25Now there was not such another as Achab, who was sold to do evil in the sight of the Lord: for his wife Jezabel set him on,

2 Chronicles 9:22And Solomon was magnified above all the kings of the earth for riches and glory.

Ecclesiastes 7:26I have surveyed all things with my mind, to know, and consider, and seek out wisdom and reason: and to know the wickedness of the fool, and the error of the imprudent:

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 →

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