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Deuteronomy 17:17
And he is not to have a great number of wives, for fear that his heart may be turned away; or great wealth of silver and gold.

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Deuteronomy 17:16
And he is not to get together a great army of horses for himself, or make the people go back to Egypt to get horses for him: because the Lord has said, You will never again go back that way.

2 Chronicles 1:14
And Solomon got together war-carriages and horsemen; he had one thousand, four hundred carriages and twelve thousand horsemen, which he kept, some in the carriage-towns and some with the king at Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 1:15
And the king made silver and gold as common as stones in Jerusalem, and cedar like the sycamore-trees of the lowland in number.

2 Chronicles 1:16
And Solomon's horses came out of Egypt; the king's traders got them from Kue at a price.

2 Chronicles 1:17
A war-carriage might be got from Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and a horse for a hundred and fifty: they got them at the same rate for all the kings of the Hittites and the kings of Aram.

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2 Samuel 5:13
And David took more women and wives in Jerusalem, after he had come from Hebron: and he had more sons and daughters.

1 Kings 11:1
Now a number of strange women were loved by Solomon, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites:

1 Kings 11:2
The nations of which the Lord had said to the children of Israel, You are not to take wives from them and they are not to take wives from you; or they will certainly make you go after their gods: to these Solomon was united in love.

1 Kings 11:3
He had seven hundred wives, daughters of kings, and three hundred other wives; and through his wives his heart was turned away.

Nehemiah 13:26
Was it not in these things that Solomon, king of Israel, did wrong? among a number of nations there was no king like him, and he was dear to his God, and God made him king over all Israel: but even he was made to do evil by strange women.

Malachi 2:15
...So give thought to your spirit, and let no one be false to the wife of his early years.

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