1 Kings 11:2
Good News Translation
He married them even though the LORD had commanded the Israelites not to intermarry with these people, because they would cause the Israelites to give their loyalty to other gods.

New Revised Standard Version
from the nations concerning which the LORD had said to the Israelites, “You shall not enter into marriage with them, neither shall they with you; for they will surely incline your heart to follow their gods”; Solomon clung to these in love.

New American Bible
from nations of which the LORD had said to the Israelites: You shall not join with them and they shall not join with you, lest they turn your hearts to their gods. But Solomon held them close in love.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Of the nations concerning which the Lord said to the children of Israel: You shall not go in unto them, neither shall any of them come into yours: for they will most certainly turn away your hearts to follow their gods. And to these was Solomon joined with a most ardent love.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Of the nations concerning which the Lord said to the children of Israel: You shall not go in unto them, neither shall any of them come into yours: for they will most certainly turn away your hearts to follow their gods. And to these was Solomon joined with a most ardent love.

Ye shall not go in

Exodus 23:32,33 Thou shalt not enter into league with them, nor with their gods. . . .

Exodus 34:16 Neither shalt thou take of their daughters a wife for thy son, lest after they themselves have committed fornication, they make thy sons also to commit fornication with their gods.

Deuteronomy 7:3,4 Neither shalt thou make marriages with them. Thou shalt not give thy daughter to his son, nor take his daughter for thy son: . . .

Joshua 23:12,13 But if you will embrace the errors of these nations that dwell among you, and make marriages with them, and join friendships: . . .

Ezra 9:12 Now therefore give not your daughters to their sons, and take not their daughters for your sons, and seek not their peace, nor their prosperity for ever: that you may be strengthened, and may eat the good things of the land, and may have your children your heirs for ever.

Ezra 10:2 And Sechenias the son of Jehiel of the sons of Elam answered, and said to Esdras: We have sinned against our God, and have taken strange wives of the people of the land: and now if there be repentance in Israel concerning this,

Malachi 2:11 Juda hath transgressed, and abomination hath been committed in Israel, and in Jerusalem: for Juda hath profaned the holiness of the Lord, which he loved, and hath married the daughter of a strange god.

surely

1 Kings 16:31-33 Nor was it enough for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam, the son of Nabat: but he also took to wife Jezabel, daughter of Ethbaal, king of the Sidonians. And he went, and served Baal, and adored him. . . .

Numbers 25:1-3 And Israel at that time abode in Settim, and the people committed fornication with the daughters of Moab, . . .

Judges 3:6,7 And they took their daughters to wives, and they gave their own daughters to their sons, and they served their gods. . . .

2 Chronicles 21:6 And he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, as the house of Achab had done: for his wife was a daughter of Achab, and he did evil in the sight of the Lord.

2 Corinthians 6:14-16 Bear not the yoke with unbelievers. For what participation hath justice with injustice? Or what fellowship hath light with darkness? . . .

Solomon

Genesis 2:24 Wherefore a man shall leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they shall be two in one flesh.

Genesis 34:3 And his soul was fast knit unto her; and whereas she was sad, he comforted her with sweet words.

Judges 16:4-21 After this he loved a woman, who dwelt in the valley of Sorec, and she was called Dalila. . . .

2 Chronicles 19:2 And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer met him, and said to him: Thou helpest the ungodly, and thou art joined in friendship with them that hate the Lord, and therefore thou didst deserve indeed the wrath of the Lord:

Psalm 139:21 Have I not hated them, O Lord, that hated thee: and pined away because of thy enemies?

Romans 1:32 Who, having known the justice of God, did not understand that they who do such things, are worthy of death: and not only they that do them, but they also that consent to them that do them.

Romans 12:9 Let love be without dissimulation. Hating that which is evil, cleaving to that which is good,

1 Corinthians 15:33 Be not seduced: Evil communications corrupt good manners.

Revelation 2:4 But I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first charity.

Context
Solomon's Foreign Wives
1And king Solomon loved many strange women, besides the daughter of Pharao, and women of Moab, and of Ammon, and of Edom, and of Sidon, and of the Hethites: 2Of the nations concerning which the Lord said to the children of Israel: You shall not go in unto them, neither shall any of them come into yours: for they will most certainly turn away your hearts to follow their gods. And to these was Solomon joined with a most ardent love.3And he had seven hundred wives as queens, and three hundred concubines: and the women turned away his heart.…
Cross References
Exodus 23:31
And I will set thy bounds from the Red Sea to the sea of the Palestines, and from the desert to the river: I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hands, and will drive them out from before you.

Exodus 34:12
Beware thou never join in friendship with the inhabitants of that land, which may be thy ruin:

Deuteronomy 7:3
Neither shalt thou make marriages with them. Thou shalt not give thy daughter to his son, nor take his daughter for thy son:

1 Kings 11:9
And the Lord was angry with Solomon, because his mind was turned away from the Lord, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice;

1 Kings 11:1
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