And the LORD stirred up an adversary unto Solomon, Hadad the Edomite: he was of the king’s seed in Edom. 1 Kings 11:14
Solomon was powerful,wise and rich, but he had one weakness-women. First, he signed a treaty with the king of Egypt and married his daughter. One by one he added the others, even though he knew that the Lord has warned His people not to marry anyone who was not from Israel. The Bible tells us that he married 700 foreign princesses and had 300 other women. I wonder how well he could have known each one, or if he even knew them at all.
In this area of his life, Solomon certainly didn’t set an example that people could follow. His wives led him to worship other gods. The Lord was angry with him and Israel paid a high price for their king’s disobedience. This was the beginning of a downward slide for the nation. Almost all of the kings who came after Solomon forgot the Lord and His love for Israel.
How could a man as wise and as blessed by God as Solomon sacrificed everything for a woman (or a lot of them)? He wasn’t the first and he certainly won’t be the last . In 1 Kings 21 we see the disastrous consequences of king Ahab’s marriage to Jezebel, “there was none like unto Ahab, who sold himself to do so wickedly in the sight of the LORD” (1 Kings 21:25).
Christian young people need to be told that the Lord can never bless a union between someone who has confessed Jesus as Lord and Savior and someone who has not. He says, “Be ye not unequivocally yoked together with unbelievers” (2 Corinthians 6:14).
Is it worth risking everything because of a “fatal attraction”?
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