Nehemiah 13:26

Nehemiah's Final Reforms

26 e "Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? Yet among many nations there was no king like him, f who was beloved of his God; and God made him king over all Israel. g Nevertheless pagan women caused even him to sin.

  1. Cross References
    1 Kings 11:1
    But King Solomon loved many foreign women, as well as the daughter of Pharaoh: women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites -
    1 Kings 11:2
    From the nations of whom the LORD had said to the children of Israel, "You shall not intermarry with them, nor they with you. Surely they will turn away your hearts after their gods." Solomon clung to these in love.
  2. Cross References
    2 Samuel 12:24
    Then David comforted Bathsheba his wife, and went in to her and lay with her. So she bore a son, and he called his name Solomon. Now the LORD loved him.
    2 Samuel 12:25
    And He sent word by the hand of Nathan the prophet: So he called his name Jedidiah, because of the LORD.
  3. Cross References
    1 Kings 11:4 - 8
    For it was so, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned his heart after other gods; and his heart was not loyal to the LORD his God, as was the heart of his father David.
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