1 Kings 11:1-3

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11 King Solomon married many other girls besides the Egyptian princess. Many of them came from nations where idols were worshiped^[a]—Moab, Ammon, Edom, Sidon, and from the Hittites— ² even though the Lord had clearly instructed his people not to marry into those nations, because the women they married would get them started worshiping their gods. Yet Solomon did it anyway. ³ He had seven hundred wives and three hundred concubines; and sure enough, they turned his heart away from the Lord,