Of the nations concerning which the LORD said to the children of Israel, You shall not go in to them, neither shall they come in unto you: for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods: Solomon stayed close to these women in his love for them.
And they left the house of the LORD God of their fathers, and served groves and idols: and wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for this their trespass.
Then you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their pictures, and destroy all their molten images, and completely pull down all their high places:
That they do not teach you to do according to all their abominations, which they have done unto their gods; so would you sin against the LORD your God.
And you shall consume all the people which the LORD your God shall deliver to you; your eye shall have no pity upon them: neither shall you serve their gods; for that will be a snare unto you.
And when the LORD your God shall deliver them before you; you shall strike them, and utterly destroy them; you shall make no covenant with them, nor show mercy to them:
And Gideon made an ephod thereof, and put it in his city, even in Ophrah: and all Israel went there a whoring after it: which thing became a snare to Gideon, and to his house.