Deuteronomy 4:6
6 aKeep them and do them, for bthat will be your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, who, when they hear all these statutes, will say, ‘Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.’1 Kings 11:1-10
Solomon Turns from the Lord
1Now cKing Solomon loved many foreign women, along with the daughter of Pharaoh: Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, and Hittite women, 2from the nations concerning which the Lord had said to the people of Israel, d“You shall not enter into marriage with them, neither shall they with you, for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods.” Solomon clung to these in love. 3He had 700 wives, who were princesses, and 300 concubines. And his wives turned away his heart. 4For when Solomon was old his wives turned away his heart after other gods, and ehis heart was not wholly true to the Lord his God, fas was the heart of David his father. 5For Solomon went after gAshtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and after hMilcom the abomination of the Ammonites. 6So Solomon did what was evil in the sight of the Lord and did not wholly follow the Lord, as David his father had done. 7Then Solomon built a high place for iChemosh the abomination of Moab, and for jMolech the abomination of the Ammonites, on the mountain east of Jerusalem. 8And so he did for all his foreign wives, who made offerings and sacrificed to their gods.The Lord Raises Adversaries
9And the Lord was angry with Solomon, because khis heart had turned away from the Lord, the God of Israel, lwho had appeared to him twice 10and mhad commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not go after other gods. But he did not keep what the Lord commanded.Proverbs 14:8
8The wisdom of the prudent is to discern his way,but the folly of fools is deceiving.
1 John 2:3
3And by this we know that we have come to know him, if we nkeep his commandments.
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