1 Kings 11:4-5
4For when Solomon was old his wives turned away his heart after other gods, and ahis heart was not wholly true to the Lord his God, bas was the heart of David his father. 5For Solomon went after cAshtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and after dMilcom the abomination of the Ammonites.1 Kings 14:9
9but you have done evil above all who were before you and have gone and emade for yourself other gods and fmetal images, provoking me to anger, and ghave cast me behind your back,1 Kings 14:23
23For they also built for themselves hhigh places iand pillars and jAsherim on every high hill and kunder every green tree,2 Chronicles 21:13
13 lbut have walked in the way of the kings of Israel and have enticed Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem minto whoredom, nas the house of Ahab led Israel into whoredom, and also you ohave killed your brothers, of your father’s house, who were better than you,2 Chronicles 24:4
4After this Joash pdecided to qrestore the house of the Lord.2 Chronicles 33:3-7
3For he rebuilt the high places rthat his father Hezekiah had broken down, and he erected altars to the Baals, and made sAsheroth, and worshiped all the host of heaven and served them. 4And he built altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, t“In Jerusalem shall my name be forever.” 5And he built altars for all the host of heaven in uthe two courts of the house of the Lord. 6 vAnd he burned his sons as an offering win the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, and xused fortune-telling and omens and sorcery, and dealt with ymediums and with necromancers. He did much evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger. 7And zthe carved image of the idol that he had made he set in the house of God, of which God said to David and to Solomon his son, “In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, aaI will put my name forever,
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