11King Solomon loved many foreign women: the daughter of Pharaoh, Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, Hittite; ²from the nations which Yahweh had said to the Israelites,^a “You shall not marry them,^b and they shall not marry you.^c They will certainly turn your heart after their gods.” But Solomon clung to them to love. ³He had seven hundred princesses and three hundred concubines, and his wives turned his heart.

Solomon’s Apostasy

⁴It happened at the time of Solomon’s old age that his wives guided his heart after other gods, and his heart was not fully with Yahweh his God as the heart of David his father had been. ⁵Solomon went after Ashtoreth the god of the Sidonians and after Milcom the abhorrence of the Ammonites. ⁶So Solomon did evil in the eyes of Yahweh and did not fully follow after Yahweh as David his father. ⁷At that time, Solomon built a high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, on the mountain which faces^d Jerusalem and for Molech, the abomination of the Ammonites.^e ⁸Thus he did for all of his foreign wives, offering incense and sacrificing to their gods.

Yahweh’s Judgment on Solomon

⁹Yahweh was angry with Solomon, for he had turned his heart from Yahweh, the God of Israel who had appeared to him twice. ¹⁰And he had commanded him concerning this matter not to go after other gods, but he did not keep that which Yahweh commanded.

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Footnotes

aLiterally “sons/children of Israel”
bLiterally “go into them”
cLiterally “go into you”
dLiterally “was on the face of”
eLiterally “sons/children of Ammon”