Genesis 3:5
5For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”1 Kings 3:11-12
11And God said to him, “Because you have asked this, and have not asked for yourself long life or riches or the life of your enemies, but have asked for yourself understanding to discern what is right, 12behold, aI now do according to your word. Behold, bI give you a wise and discerning mind, so that none like you has been before you and none like you shall arise after you.1 Kings 11:1-8
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.Romans 1:22
22 kClaiming to be wise, they became fools,1 Corinthians 1:20
20 lWhere is the one who is wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? mHas not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?
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