1 Kings 11:1 (WEB)
Now King Solomon loved many foreign women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh: women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites,
Fathers and councils · 4
Irenaeus of Lyons
“And the Lord was angry with Solomon; for his heart was not perfect with the Lord, as was the heart of David his father.”” — editor's note: 1 Kings xi. 1.
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Augustine of Hippo
“…him, became master of such wisdom, that the promise of God respecting the fruit of David’s body was believed to have been fulfilled in him; but Solomon fell, and gave room for hoping for Christ; that since God can neither be deceived nor deceive, He might not make His promise to rest in one who He knew would fall,…” — editor's note: 1 Kings xi. 1, etc.
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Jerome
“Wisdom used him to sing her praise, and he treated of all plants “from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall;” and yet he went back from God because he was a lover of women.” — editor's note: 1 Kings xi. 1–4.
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Aphrahat
“Solomon was greater than all the kings of the earth, yet in the days of his old age his wives led his heart astray.” — editor's note: 1 Kin. xi. 1–4.
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