2 Crônicas 8

2 Crônicas 8

Vernon McGee - I notice that an interpretation that one gets in Israel today is that Solomon married these different women from various other countries for political advantage. Your father-in-law is not apt to make war against you. So this was one of the ways in which Solomon brought peace to the land. A man would not come up to fight against a country in which his daughter was the queen. I do not know whether this reason for Solomon’s many wives is true or not. I have a notion that it is partly accurate. Under any circumstance, it was against God’s command. King Solomon married a certain ‘Pharaoh’s daughter’ for whom he built a special palace, since she could not live in David’s palace ‘because the places the ark of the LORD has entered are holy’ (1 Kings 7:8; 9; 24; 11:1; 2 Chron. 8:11). Solomon’s marriages with this woman and other foreign women were eventually to lead to his downfall. Such intermarriage with other peoples had been forbidden by the Law of God and the wives gradually drew ‘his heart after other gods’ (1 Kings 11:4–6). Paul Apple - COMPLEXITIES OF MORAL COMPROMISE Iain Duguid: This is the sole mention in Chronicles of Solomon’s having a foreign wife, and also the only reference to Pharaoh’s daughter. While in Kings this marriage and others are a cause for criticism of Solomon, here it is an opportunity to affirm his piety. J.A. Thompson: The Chronicler assumed his readers knew of Solomon's diplomatic marriage with pharaoh's daughter (1 Kgs 9:16), who lived with him in Jerusalem. Solomon built a palace for her lest her close proximity to the temple while living in the king's palace might somehow defile the temple and the ark. Thomas