King Solomon loved many foreign women along with the daughter of Pharaoh: Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, and Hittite women,
Proverbs 31:3 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 Do not give your strength to women, your ways to those who destroy kings. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Give not thy strength unto women, Nor thy ways to that which destroyeth kings. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Give not your strength to [loose] women, nor your ways to those who and that which ruin and destroy kings. American Standard Version (1901) Give not thy strength unto women, Nor thy ways to that which destroyeth kings. Common English Bible Don’t give your strength to women, your ways to those who wipe out kings. Catholic Public Domain Version Do not give your substance to women, or your riches to overthrow kings. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Give not thy substance to women, and thy riches to destroy kings. |
King Solomon loved many foreign women along with the daughter of Pharaoh: Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, and Hittite women,
Did not King Solomon of Israel sin on account of such women? Among the many nations there was no king like him, and he was beloved by his God, and God made him king over all Israel; nevertheless, foreign women made even him to sin.
And he must not acquire many wives for himself or else his heart will turn away; also silver and gold he must not acquire in great quantity for himself.