³And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines: and his wives turned away his heart. ⁴^*For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, that ^ehis wives turned away his heart after other gods: and ^fhis heart was not perfect with the Lord his God, ^gas was the heart of David his father. ⁵For Solomon went after ^hAshtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, and after ^||Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites. ⁶And Solomon did evil in the sight of the Lord, and ^†went not fully after the Lord, as did David his father. ⁷Then did Solomon ⁱbuild an high place for ^jChemosh, the abomination of Moab, in ^kthe hill that is before Jerusalem, and for ^lMolech, the abomination of the children of Ammon. ⁸And likewise did he for all his strange wives, which burnt incense and sacrificed unto their gods.

⁹And the Lord was angry with Solomon, because ^mhis heart was turned from the Lord God of Israel, which had appeared unto him ⁿtwice, ¹⁰And ^ohad commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not go after other gods: but he kept not that which the Lord commanded.

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Footnotes

fSee ch. 8:61.
gSee ch. 9:4.
hver. 33. 2 Kin. 23:13. So Judg. 2:13. 1 Sam. 7:3. & 12:10. & 31:10.
||[Called, Molech, ver. 7]. So ver. 33.
†Heb. fulfilled not after. See Num. 14:24.
iComp. Num. 33:52.
jver. 33. See Num. 21:29.
kComp. 2 Kin. 23:13.
l Lev. 18:21. & 20:2, 3, 4. 2 Kin. 23:10. So Amos 5:26? Zeph. 1:5? Acts 7:43. Comp. ver. 5, 33.
mver. 2, 3, 4.
nch. 3:5. & 9:2.
och. 6:12. & 9:6.

Cross references

*About B.C. 984.
e Josh. 23:12, 13.

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