Aside Astray Birth Concubines Daughters Heart Hundred Kings Led Princesses Royal Seven Turn Wives Women
11:3 And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred {b} concubines: and his wives turned away his heart.
(b) To whom belonged no dowry.
11:3 Seven hundred wives, and c. - God had particularly forbidden the kings to multiply either horses or wives, Deut 17:16,17, we saw chap.1Ki 10:29, how he broke the former law, multiplying horses: and here we see, how he broke the latter, multiplying wives. David set the example. One ill act of a good man may do more mischief than twenty of a wicked man. Besides, they were strange women, of the nations which God had expressly forbidden them to marry with. And to compleat the mischief, he clave unto these in love; was extravagantly fond of them, Solomon had much knowledge. But to what purpose, when he knew not how to govern his appetites?
11:1-8 There is not a more melancholy and astonishing instance of human depravity in the sacred Scriptures, than that here recorded. Solomon became a public worshipper of abominable idols! Probably he by degrees gave way to pride and luxury, and thus lost his relish for true wisdom. Nothing forms in itself a security against the deceitfulness and depravity of the human heart. Nor will old age cure the heart of any evil propensity. If our sinful passions are not crucified and mortified by the grace of God, they never will die of themselves, but will last even when opportunities to gratify them are taken away. Let him that thinks he stands, take heed lest he fall. We see how weak we are of ourselves, without the grace of God; let us therefore live in constant dependence on that grace. Let us watch and be sober: ours is a dangerous warfare, and in an enemy's country, while our worst foes are the traitors in our own hearts.
Astray Birth Concubines Daughters Heart Hundred Kings Led Princesses Royal Seven Three Turn Turned Wives Women
Astray Birth Concubines Daughters Heart Hundred Kings Led Princesses Royal Seven Three Turn Turned Wives Women
