1 Kings 11:1
But, King Solomon, loved many foreign women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh,—women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, Hittites:
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Genesis 6:2that the sons of God saw the daughters of men! that they were, fair,—so they took to themselves wives of whomsoever they chose,
Deuteronomy 17:17Neither shall he multiply to himself wives, that his heart turn not aside,—nor silver and gold, shall he multiply to himself greatly.
1 Kings 11:8and, thus, did he for all his foreign wives,—who burned incense and offered sacrifices unto their gods.
1 Kings 14:31So then Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David, and, the name of his mother, was Naamah the Ammonitess,—and, Abijah his son, reigned, in his stead.
Ezra 9:2for they have taken of their daughters, for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy seed have intermingled themselves among the peoples of the lands,—and, the hand of the rulers and the deputies, hath, in this unfaithfulness, been, foremost.
Nehemiah 13:26Was it not, over these things, that Solomon king of Israel sinned—though, among many nations, there was no king such as he, and he was, beloved by his God, and so God gave him to be king over all Israel,—even him, did foreign women, cause to sin.
Matthew Henry on 1 Kings 11:1
This chapter begins with as melancholy a "but" as almost any we find in all the Bible. Hitherto we have read nothing of Solomon but what was great and good; but the lustre both of his goodness and of his greatness is here sullied and eclipsed, and his sun sets under a cloud. I. The glory of his piety is stained by his departure from God and his duty, in his latter days, marrying strange wives and worshipping strange gods, ver. 4-8 . II. The glory of his prosperity is stained by God's displeasure against him and… Read the whole commentary →