1 Kings 11:1-5
Solomon Turns from God
1 Now aKing Solomon loved many foreign women along with the daughter of Pharaoh: Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, and Hittite women, 2from the nations of which the Lord had said to the sons of Israel, “ bYou shall not ▼▼Lit go among
associate with them, nor shall they ▼▼Lit go among
associate with you; they will certainly turn your heart away ▼▼Lit after their
to follow their gods.” Solomon clung to these in love. 3 fHe had seven hundred wives, who were ▼▼Or women of rank
princesses, and three hundred concubines; and his wives turned his heart away. 4For when Solomon was old, his wives turned his heart away ▼▼Lit after other
to follow other gods; and ihis heart was not ▼▼Lit complete with
wholly devoted to the Lord his God, as the heart of his father David had been. 5For Solomon became a follower of kAshtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and of ▼▼In Jer 49:1, 3, Malcam
,
mMilcom the abhorrent idol of the Ammonites.
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