3 And he came to have seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines; and his wives gradually+ inclined his heart.

26 Was it not because of these that Solʹo·mon the king of Israel sinned?+ And among the many nations there proved to be no king like him;+ and loved of his God he happened to be,+ so that God constituted him king over all Israel. Even him the foreign wives caused to sin.+