Which Old Testament figure had 700 wives and 300 concubines?

Where wisdom went wrong

Many of these marriages were political alliances, common practice for ancient kings — but the Bible is blunt about the cost: Solomon’s foreign wives “turned his heart after other gods” in his old age, leading him to build shrines to foreign deities. It’s a sobering turn for the same king who once asked God for wisdom above all else: 1 Kings frames his downfall not as a sudden failure but as a slow drift, one compromise at a time.