Text: 1 Kings 11:2
OT Text Referred to: Exodus 34:15
Subject: turning Solomon's heart away
Source: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): None
Significance: In 1 Kings 11:2, the narrator states regarding Solomon's foreign wives: "These were from the nations about which the LORD had told the Israelites, 'You must not intermarry with them, for surely they will turn your hearts after their gods.'" This language directly echoes Exodus 34:15-16, where God warns at Sinai: "Do not make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, lest when they play the harlot after their gods (וְזָנוּ אַחֲרֵי אֱלֹהֵיהֶם, vezanu 'acharey 'eloheyhem)... they invite you and you eat of their sacrifices." Solomon's marriages enact the precise scenario the Sinai covenant warned against — his wives "turned his heart" just as Exodus predicted foreign women would lead Israel into idolatry.