TSK · Proverbs 7:26

Abner Defects to David’s Camp As the war continued between the house of Saul and the house of David, Abner was becoming more influential in the house of Saul.

Why have you shown contempt for the LORD’s decrees by doing evil in my sight? You have struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and you have taken his wife to be your own wife! You have killed him with the sword of the Ammonites.

Was it not because of things like these that King Solomon of Israel sinned? Among the many nations there was no king like him. He was loved by his God, and God made him king over all Israel. But the foreign wives made even him sin!

He will be beaten and despised, and his reproach will not be wiped away;

And let us not be immoral, as some of them were, and twenty-three thousand died in a single day.

Dear friends, I urge you as foreigners and exiles to keep away from fleshly desires that do battle against the soul,