1 Kings 11:1-8
Solomon Turns from the Lord
1Now aKing Solomon loved many foreign women, along with the daughter of Pharaoh: Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, and Hittite women, 2from the nations concerning which the Lord had said to the people of Israel, b“You shall not enter into marriage with them, neither shall they with you, for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods.” Solomon clung to these in love. 3He had 700 wives, who were princesses, and 300 concubines. And his wives turned away his heart. 4For when Solomon was old his wives turned away his heart after other gods, and chis heart was not wholly true to the Lord his God, das was the heart of David his father. 5For Solomon went after eAshtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and after fMilcom the abomination of the Ammonites. 6So Solomon did what was evil in the sight of the Lord and did not wholly follow the Lord, as David his father had done. 7Then Solomon built a high place for gChemosh the abomination of Moab, and for hMolech the abomination of the Ammonites, on the mountain east of Jerusalem. 8And so he did for all his foreign wives, who made offerings and sacrificed to their gods.1 Kings 15:13
13 iHe also removed Maacah his mother from being queen mother because she had made an abominable image for Asherah. And Asa cut down her image and jburned it at the brook Kidron.1 Kings 16:31
31And as if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, khe took for his wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the lSidonians, mand went and served Baal and worshiped him.
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