Nehemiah 13:26
Did not Solomon king of Israel sin on account of these women? Among many nations there was no king like him, and he was loved by his God, and God made him king over all Israel. Nevertheless, his foreign wives caused him to sin.
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2 Samuel 12:25and he sent word through Nathan the prophet to name him Jedidiah, because Yahweh loved him.
1 Kings 3:13I have also given you what you have not asked, both riches and honor, so that there will not be any among the kings like you all your days.
1 Kings 11:1Now King Solomon loved many foreign women including the daughter of Pharaoh—women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites.
1 Kings 21:25There was no one like Ahab, who sold himself to do what was evil in the sight of Yahweh, whom Jezebel his wife incited to sin.
2 Chronicles 9:22So King Solomon exceeded all the kings of the world in riches and in wisdom.
Ecclesiastes 7:26I found that more bitter than death is any woman 2 whose heart is full of snares and nets, 2 and whose hands are chains. 1 Whoever pleases God will escape from her, 2 but the sinner will 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 →