Text: 1 Kings 11:1
OT Text Referred to: Deuteronomy 23:3
Subject: Solomon's Ammonite and Moabite wives violate assembly exclusion
Source: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): None
Significance: In 1 Kings 11:1, Solomon loves "women of Moab, Ammon, Edom, and Sidon," while Deuteronomy 23:3 explicitly forbids Ammonites and Moabites from entering the assembly of the LORD (קְהַל יְהוָה, qehal YHWH) "even to the tenth generation." Solomon's marriages to women from these specifically excluded nations represent a royal transgression of the Torah's boundary laws — not merely intermarriage in general but union with the very peoples Moses had singled out for perpetual exclusion. The irony is sharp: the king charged with embodying Torah faithfulness instead embraced the nations Torah most emphatically set apart.