Theme: THE DANGER OF INTERFAITH
Text: “Did not Solomon King of Israel sin by these things? yet among many nations was there no king like him, who was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel: nevertheless even him did outlandish women cause to sin.” – Nehemiah 13:26.
Comment: God Almighty from time has been against the practice of interfaith and had never tolerated it. The Jews who practiced it suffered grievously because of it. A ready instance is that of King Solomon as recorded in the text for today.
Solomon, the wisest king of Israel in his days was unable to keep God’s instruction against loving strange women. God had instructed the children of Israel, through Moses the prophet not to associate with the nations around them by marriage. (Exodus 34:16, Deuteronomy 7:3,4). When he became old, his wives turned away his heart after other gods. Solomon faced the consequences of his interfaith in that the Kingdom was rent from him during the reign of his son. In the time of Ezra and Nehemiah, the returning Jews had to put away the strange wives they had married. – Ezra 9:1,2; 10:2,3,10,11; Nehemiah 13:23-44.
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