EXODUS 34:16 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“And thou take of their daughters unto thy sons, and their daughters go a whoring after their gods, and make thy sons go a whoring after their gods.”
And when you choose some of their daughters as wives for your sons and those daughters prostitute themselves to their gods, they will lead your sons to do the same. The specific mechanism of idolatry's transmission through intermarriage: the daughters who worship their gods will lead their husbands to do the same. 1 Kings 11:1–8 records the exact fulfillment in Solomon's case: his foreign wives turned his heart after other gods. Nehemiah 13:26 cites Solomon as the example of how powerful the influence is. The prohibition is not ethnic xenophobia but a recognition of the formative power of intimate relationships — the people we love shape who we become.
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