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.

Cross-references · 21

• Exod 34:16and you take of their daughters to your sons, and their daughters play the prostitute after their gods, and make your sons play the prostitute after their gods.
• Deut 7:3–4neither shall you make marriages with them. You shall not give your daughter to his son, nor shall you take his daughter for your son.
• Josh 23:12–13“But if you do at all go back, and hold fast to the remnant of these nations, even these who remain among you, and make marriages with them, and go in to them, and they to you;
• Num 25:1–3Israel stayed in Shittim; and the people began to play the prostitute with the daughters of Moab;
• Exod 23:32–33You shall make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.
• 1 Cor 15:33Don’t be deceived! “Evil companionships corrupt good morals.”
• 2 Cor 6:14–16Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?
• Rom 12:9Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good.
• Rom 1:32who, knowing the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but also approve of those who practice them.
• Rev 2:4But I have this against you, that you left your first love.
• Mal 2:11Judah has dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah has profaned the holiness of Yahweh which he loves, and has married the daughter of a foreign god.
• 1 Kgs 16:31–33As if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, he took as wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and went and served Baal, and worshiped him.
• Gen 34:3His soul joined to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the young lady, and spoke kindly to the young lady.
• Judg 3:6–7They took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their own daughters to their sons and served their gods.
• Ps 139:21Yahweh, don’t I hate those who hate you? Am I not grieved with those who rise up against you?
• Ezra 9:12Now therefore don’t give your daughters to their sons. Don’t take their daughters to your sons, nor seek their peace or their prosperity forever; that you may be strong, and eat the good of the land, and leave it for an inheritance to your children forever.’
• 2 Chr 19:2Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said to king Jehoshaphat, “Should you help the wicked, and love those who hate Yahweh? Because of this, wrath is on you from before Yahweh.
• Ezra 10:2–17Shecaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answered Ezra, “We have trespassed against our God, and have married foreign women of the peoples of the land. Yet now there is hope for Israel concerning this thing.
• Judg 16:4–21It came to pass afterward, that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.
• Gen 2:24Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.
• 2 Chr 21:6He walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as did Ahab’s house; for he had Ahab’s daughter as his wife. He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight.

Each word below is tagged with its Strong’s number — tap one to see the underlying Hebrew word, its meaning, and every verse that uses it.