Unwise about women...

1 Kings 11:1-6 King Solomon, however, loved many foreign women besides Pharaoh’s daughter—Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians and Hittites. They were from nations about which the Lord had told the Israelites, “You must not intermarry with them, because they will surely turn your hearts after their gods.” Nevertheless, Solomon held fast to them in love. He had seven hundred wives of royal birth and three hundred concubines, and his wives led him astray. As Solomon grew old, his wives turned his heart after other gods, and his heart was not fully devoted to the Lord his God, as the heart of David his father had been. He followed Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and Molek the detestable god of the Ammonites. So Solomon did evil in the eyes of the Lord; he did not follow the Lord completely, as David his father had done. For all of his wisdom and wealth, Solomon still had a weakness - women. As we read, it was a whopping weakness. Just as using many words increases the possibility of sinning, having many wives increases the possibility of sinning. It is not that women are inherently evil, but that Solomon did not see God as sufficient for his every need. It is almost like he had to eat every apple to make sure that God was telling him the truth: Do not marry any of these pagan women. He was not fully devoted to God; he did not follow Him completely; his passion for women was greater than his passion for God. Who knows what greater greatness could have marked his reign, if it had not been so. What a warning to us: if a man with such great wisdom fell, how much more we of simple minds will fall, if we do not fully follow God and His commands.