27 Shall we then listen to you to do all this great evil, to trespass against our God in marrying foreign women?"
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Shall we then hearken unto you - If God spared not Solomon, who was so much beloved of Him, shall we spare you, who by your conduct are bringing down God's judgments upon Israel?
Shall we then hearken unto you to do all this great evil,.... To suffer it to be done, and connive at it, and not punish for it:
to transgress against our God; his law, his mind, and will:
in marrying strange wives? forbidden by him, Deuteronomy 7:1.
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