1Ki 11:7-33, 2Ki 23:13, Jer 48:46 | ESV | STEP | Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab , and for Molech the abomination of the Ammonites , on the mountain east of Jerusalem .

1 Kings 11:7-33

7 Then Solomon built a high place for ^aChemosh the abomination of Moab, and for ^bMolech the abomination of the Ammonites, on the mountain east of Jerusalem. 8 And so he did for all his foreign wives, who made offerings and sacrificed to their gods.

The Lord Raises Adversaries

9 And the Lord was angry with Solomon, because ^chis heart had turned away from the Lord, the God of Israel, ^dwho had appeared to him twice 10 and ^ehad commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not go after other gods. But he did not keep what the Lord commanded. 11 Therefore the Lord said to Solomon, “Since this has been your practice and you have not kept my covenant and my statutes that I have commanded you, ^fI will surely tear the kingdom from you and will give it to your servant. 12 Yet for the sake of David your father I will not do it in your days, but I will tear it out of the hand of your son. 13 However, ^gI will not tear away all the kingdom, but ^hI will give one tribe to your son, for the sake of David my servant and for the sake of Jerusalem ⁱthat I have chosen.”

14 And the Lord raised up an adversary against Solomon, Hadad the Edomite. He was of the royal house in Edom. 15 For ^jwhen David was in Edom, and Joab the commander of the army went up to bury the slain, he struck down every male in Edom 16 (for Joab and all Israel remained there six months, until he had cut off every male in Edom). 17 But Hadad fled to Egypt, together with certain Edomites of his father’s servants, Hadad still being a little child. 18 They set out from Midian and came to ^kParan and took men with them from Paran and came to Egypt, to Pharaoh king of Egypt, who gave him a house and assigned him an allowance of food and gave him land. 19 And Hadad found great favor in the sight of Pharaoh, so that he gave him in marriage the sister of his own wife, the sister of Tahpenes the queen. 20 And the sister of Tahpenes bore him Genubath his son, whom Tahpenes weaned in Pharaoh’s house. And Genubath was in Pharaoh’s house among the sons of Pharaoh. 21 But when Hadad heard in Egypt ^lthat David slept with his fathers and that Joab the commander of the army was dead, Hadad said to Pharaoh, “Let me depart, that I may go to my own country.” 22 But Pharaoh said to him, “What have you lacked with me that you are now seeking to go to your own country?” And he said to him, “Only let me depart.”

23 God also raised up as an adversary to him, Rezon the son of Eliada, who had fled from his master ^mHadadezer king of Zobah. 24 And he gathered men about him and became leader of a marauding band, ⁿafter the killing by David. And they went to Damascus and lived there and made him king in Damascus. 25 He was an adversary of Israel all the days of Solomon, doing harm as Hadad did. And he loathed Israel and reigned over Syria.

26 ^oJeroboam the son of Nebat, ^pan Ephraimite of Zeredah, a servant of Solomon, whose mother’s name was Zeruah, a widow, also ^qlifted up his hand against the king. 27 And this was the reason why he lifted up his hand against the king. ^rSolomon built the Millo, and closed up the breach of the city of David his father. 28 The man Jeroboam was very able, and when Solomon saw that the young man was industrious he gave him charge over all the forced labor of the house of Joseph. 29 And at that time, when Jeroboam went out of Jerusalem, the prophet ^sAhijah the Shilonite found him on the road. Now Ahijah had dressed himself in a new garment, and the two of them were alone in the open country. 30 Then Ahijah laid hold of the new garment that was on him, ^tand tore it into twelve pieces. 31 And he said to Jeroboam, “Take for yourself ten pieces, for thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, ‘Behold, ^uI am about to tear the kingdom from the hand of Solomon and will give you ten tribes 32 (but ^vhe shall have one tribe, for the sake of my servant David and for the sake of Jerusalem, ^wthe city that I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel), 33 because they have ^{▼▼Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate he has; twice in this verse} forsaken me ^yand worshiped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of Moab, and Milcom the god of the Ammonites, and they have not walked in my ways, doing what is right in my sight and keeping my statutes and my rules, as David his father did.

2 Kings 23:13

13 And the king defiled the high places that were east of Jerusalem, to the south of ^zthe mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had built for ^aaAshtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, and for ^abChemosh the abomination of Moab, and for ^acMilcom the abomination of the Ammonites.

Jeremiah 48:46

46 ^adWoe to you, O Moab!
The people of ^aeChemosh are undone,
for your sons have been taken captive,
and your daughters into captivity.