Proverbs 31:3

God's Word

Don’t give your strength to women or your power to those who ruin kings.

Cross References

1 Kings 11:1

King Solomon loved many foreign women in addition to Pharaoh’s daughter. He loved Hittite women and women from Moab, Ammon, Edom, and Sidon.

Nehemiah 13:26

I said, “Wasn’t it because of marriages like these that King Solomon of Israel sinned? There wasn’t a king like him among all nations. God loved him, and God made him king of all Israel. But his non-Israelite wives led him to sin.

Hosea 4:11

Prostitutes, old wine, and new wine have robbed them of their senses.

Deuteronomy 17:17

The king must never have a large number of wives, or he will turn away ⌞from God⌟. And he must never own a lot of gold and silver.