Solomon Turns from the Lord
1 Now Neh. 13:26;[Deut. 17:17]King Solomon loved many foreign women, along with the daughter of Pharaoh: Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, and Hittite women, 2 from the nations concerning which the Lord had said to the people of Israel, See Ex. 34:16"You shall not enter into marriage with them, neither shall they with you, for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods." Solomon clung to these in love. 3 He had 700 wives, who were princesses, and 300 concubines. And his wives turned away his heart. 4 For when Solomon was old his wives turned away his heart after other gods, and [ch. 8:61] his heart was not wholly true to the Lord his God, ch. 9:4as was the heart of David his father.