Solomon ensured by his activities that his royal house received a princely share of this new prosperity. He expanded trade by marrying daughters of all the neighbouring princes, with the slogan ‘trade follows the bride’. He ‘made affinity with Pharaoh King of Egypt’ by marrying his daughter–that is how he obtained Gezer. The Bible tells us of other matrimonial alliances, saying he ‘loved many strange women together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites,
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