1 Kings 11:2

These were the very nations God had forbidden intermarriage with, lest they turn Israel's heart to idols, yet Solomon clung to them in love. His disobedience was deliberate and against clear warning.

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• Exod 34:16And thou take of their daughters unto thy sons, and their daughters go a whoring after their gods, and make thy sons go a whoring after their gods.
• Deut 7:3–4Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son.
• Josh 23:12–13Else if ye do in any wise go back, and cleave unto the remnant of these nations, even these that remain among you, and shall make marriages with them, and go in unto them, and they to you:
• Num 25:1–3And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab.
• Exod 23:32–33Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.
• 1 Cor 15:33Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.
• 2 Cor 6:14–16Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
• Rom 12:9Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.
• Rom 1:32Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
• Rev 2:4Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love.
• Mal 2:11Judah hath dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah hath profaned the holiness of the LORD which he loved, and hath married the daughter of a strange god.
• 1 Kgs 16:31–33And it came to pass, as if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he took to wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Zidonians, and went and served Baal, and worshipped him.
• Gen 34:3And his soul clave unto Dinah the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the damsel, and spake kindly unto the damsel.
• Judg 3:6–7And they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their daughters to their sons, and served their gods.
• Ps 139:21Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee?
• Ezra 9:12Now therefore give not your daughters unto their sons, neither take their daughters unto your sons, nor seek their peace or their wealth for ever: that ye may be strong, and eat the good of the land, and leave it for an inheritance to your children for ever.
• 2 Chr 19:2And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said to king Jehoshaphat, Shouldest thou help the ungodly, and love them that hate the LORD? therefore is wrath upon thee from before the LORD.
• Ezra 10:2–17And Shechaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answered and said unto Ezra, We have trespassed against our God, and have taken strange wives of the people of the land: yet now there is hope in Israel concerning this thing.
• Judg 16:4–21And it came to pass afterward, that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.
• Gen 2:24Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
• 2 Chr 21:6And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, like as did the house of Ahab: for he had the daughter of Ahab to wife: and he wrought that which was evil in the eyes of the LORD.

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