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) 27} Must we hear now that you too are doing all this terrible wickedness and are being unfaithful to our God by marrying^(D) foreign women?”