It always amazes me to read about Solomon being the wisest person ever... yet he disobeyed (disregarded?) the 3 commands God gave explicitly to kings: don't go get horses from Egypt, don't get lots of wives (they'll turn your heart away), and don't amass lots of silver and gold.
You would think that a wise person would first of all pay attention to God's commands. I guess it must show that human wisdom is not the same as God's wisdom. That God's foolishness is wiser than men. And to warn us that no amount of human wisdom (in parenting or anything else) will offset our disregarding of the things God explicitly tells us to do (e.g. parents: don't provoke your children to wrath, but raise them in the fear and admonition of the Lord).
(Deut.17:16-17. 1Kings 10:21-11:8. 1Cor.1:25. Eph.6:4)
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