8And likewise did he for all his strange wives, which burnt incense and sacrificed unto their gods.
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And in all thine abominations and thy whoredoms thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, when thou wast naked and bare, and wast polluted in thy blood. …
Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come. …
Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart. …
But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils. …
But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites;
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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