Solomon’s Prayer for Wisdom

1 Solomon made a marriage alliance with Pharaoh king of Egypt. He took ^cPharaoh’s daughter and brought her into the city of David until he had finished building ^dhis own house and the ^ehouse of the Lord and the ^fwall around Jerusalem.

8 His own house where he was to dwell, in the other court at the back of the hall, was of like workmanship. Solomon also made a house like this hall for ^aPharaoh’s daughter whom he had taken in marriage.

Solomon Turns from the Lord

1 Now King Solomon loved ^xmany foreign women, along with the ^ydaughter of Pharaoh: Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, and Hittite women,