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#196 | The Rise and Fall of King Solomon: The Marriages
In this episode, we examine the tragic unraveling of Solomon’s reign in light of the laws for kings outlined in Deuteronomy 17:14–20. These divine guidelines—prohibiting the multiplication of wives, accumulation of wealth, and reliance on military power—were designed to keep Israel’s kings humble, dependent on God, and faithful to the covenant. But Solomon, in direct defiance, broke all of them. Most significantly, he multiplied wives from foreign nations, and with them came foreign gods.
1 Kings 10:14–29 and the chapters that follow paint a sobering picture of how these political marriages…
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