* brought.
"Moses," says Bp. Warburton, "had expressly prohibited the
multiplying of horses, (De 17:16;) by which the future king
was forbidden to establish a body of calvary, because this
could not be effected without sending into Egypt, with which
people God had forbidden any communication, as this would be
dangerous to religion. When Solomon had violated this law,
and multiplied horses to excess, (1; Ki 4:26,) it was soon
attended with those fatal consequences that the law foretold:
for this wisest of kings having likewise, in violation of
another law, married Pharaoh's daughter, (the early fruits of
this commerce,) and then, by a repetition of the same crime,
but a transgression of another law, had espoused more strange
women, (1; Ki 4:26; 11:1,) they first,in defiance of a fourth
law, persuaded him to build them idol temples for their use;
and afterwards, against a fifth law, brought him to erect
other temples for his own."
25 1:16 1Ki 10:28 Isa 2:7,8 31:1
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