Do not spend your strength on women, your vigor on those who ruin kings.
King Solomon, however, loved many foreign women besides Pharaoh’s daughter—Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians and Hittites.
Was it not because of marriages like these that Solomon king of Israel sinned? Among the many nations there was no king like him. He was loved by his God, and God made him king over all Israel, but even he was led into sin by foreign women.
to prostitution; old wine and new wine take away their understanding.
He must not take many wives, or his heart will be led astray. He must not accumulate large amounts of silver and gold.