¹⁸ Didn’t your ancestors do the same things, so that our God brought all this calamity on us and on this city?^(A) Now you are stirring up more wrath against Israel by desecrating the Sabbath.”^(B)

²⁶ Was it not because of marriages like these that Solomon king of Israel sinned? Among the many nations there was no king like him.^(A) He was loved by his God,^(B) and God made him king over all Israel, but even he was led into sin by foreign women.^(C)