(TEXT: 1 Kings 3:1)
And Solomon made affinity with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and took Pharaoh’s daughter, and brought her into the city of David, until he had made an end of building his own house, and the house of the LORD, and the wall of Jerusalem round about.
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In the next few days we will be discussing about the fall of King Solomon. As a believer we should know better that anything that is not approved by God will always bring catastrophe. King Solomon of all people should have known and understood with all the “wisdom” God has given to him, for him to know what is right with God and what is wrong with God. And that getting married to a foreign woman, especially the daughter of Pharaoh, it is a taboo and should not be found among the children of Israel of such: not to mention the king that is ruling the entire children of Israel himself. It’s an error, it’s a taboo and it’s an abomination for any children of Israel to have any intermarriage with foreigner such as the family of Pharaoh. Solomon broke the Law of God, which forbade making alliance and intermarrying with a foreign nations like Egypt, lest they should lead the hearts of people of God away from God to serve other gods (Ex 34:16; Deut 7:3-4). This was the first error that King Solomon committed.
In addition, no matter how beautiful the foreigners might look or appears in the “market of choice in marriage;” they can always be seen as distraction, distracting you from fulfilling the will of God for your life; destroyer, destroying every single plans God have for His people; and of course, they will always leading the children of God into sin. And sin in the other hand, will always lead the children of God into the captivity of their enemies: and eventually such sin will always leads to death. Foreigner don’t have respect for the Law of God they only come to break it.
1 Kings 16:31-34 And it came to pass, as if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he took to wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Zidonians, and went and served Baal, and worshipped him. And he reared up an altar for Baal in the house of Baal, which he had built in Samaria. And Ahab made a grove; and Ahab did more to provoke the LORD God of Israel to anger than all the kings of Israel that were before him. In his days did Hiel the Bethelite build Jericho: he laid the foundation thereof in Abiram his firstborn, and set up the gates thereof in his youngest son Segub, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by Joshua the son of Nun.
Finally, Solomon disappointed God by, disappointed his father’s throne, and disappointed the entire children of Israel. Whatever that is not good has no other name to qualifies it, rather than saying, it is “bad.” If you go against the will of God in one bit, even though you are good in many other ways, however, as far as God is concerned, you are a disobedience in all other ways of God. Foreign (women and men) are forbidden by God because of the gods they worship and because of their disobedience unto God. Don’t be like Solomon who started with wrong choice in marriage; choose wisely.
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