⁴ And it came to pass afterward, that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.

¹ But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites:

²⁶ 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.

¹⁴ The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein.

²⁷ For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.

¹¹ As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly.

²² Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.

⁶ Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.