1But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites;
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Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.
To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.
In those days also saw I Jews that had married wives of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab: …
To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;
And likewise did he for all his strange wives, which burnt incense and sacrificed unto their gods.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-8)This is a sad story, and very surprising, of Solomon’s defection and degeneracy. I. Let us enquire into the occasions and particulars of it. Shall Solomon fall, that was the beauty of Israel, and so great a blessing of his generation? Yes, it is too true, and the scripture is faithful in relating it, and repeating it, and referring to it long after, Neh. 13:26. There was no king like Solomon who w…
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