1 Kings 11:8
Hebrew Text— 1 Kings 11:8So he did for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods.
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He shall not multiply wives to himself, that his heart not turn away. He shall not greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.
“ ‘You shall not take a wife in addition to her sister, to be a rival, to uncover her nakedness, while her sister is still alive.
It came to pass afterward that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.
After this, Absalom the son of David had a beautiful sister, whose name was Tamar; and Amnon the son of David loved her.
Solomon made an alliance with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and took Pharaoh’s daughter, and brought her into David’s city, until he had finished building his own house, Yahweh’s house, and the wall around Jerusalem.
Now king Solomon loved many foreign women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites;
So king Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem and reigned; for Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which Yahweh had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel to put his name there. His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonitess.
Now when these things were done, the princes came near to me, saying, “The people of Israel, the priests, and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands, following their abominations, even those of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.
to deliver you from the strange woman, even from the foreigner who flatters with her words,
For why should you, my son, be captivated with an adulteress? Why embrace the bosom of another?
to keep you from the immoral woman, from the flattery of the wayward wife’s tongue.
that they may keep you from the strange woman, from the foreigner who flatters with her words.
The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit. He who is under Yahweh’s wrath will fall into it.
Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind will imagine confusing things.
Don’t give your strength to women, nor your ways to that which destroys kings.
There are sixty queens, eighty concubines, and virgins without number.