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1 Kings 11:1
“Now king Solomon loved many foreign women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites;”
Verse in context — 1 Kings 11
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Now king Solomon loved many foreign women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites;
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of the nations concerning which Yahweh said to the children of Israel, "You shall not go among them, neither shall they come among you; for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods." Solomon joined to these in love.
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He had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines; and his wives turned away his heart.
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Solomon’s reign, the temple’s construction, and the kingdom’s division.
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