Solomon’s Heart Turns from the Lord
1 But (Neh. 13:26)King Solomon loved (Deut. 17:17); 1 Kin. 3:1many foreign women, as well as the daughter of Pharaoh: women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites— 2 from the nations of whom the Lord had said to the children of Israel, Ex. 34:16; (Deut. 7:3, 4)"You shall not intermarry with them, nor they with you. Surely they will turn away your hearts after their gods." Solomon clung to these in love. 3 And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines; and his wives turned away his heart. 4 For it was so, when Solomon was old, (Deut. 17:17; Neh. 13:26)that his wives turned his heart after other gods; and his 1 Kin. 8:61heart was not loyal to the Lord his God, 1 Kin. 9:4as was the heart of his father David.