1 Kings 11:1–8

Solomon Turns from God

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 sons of Israel, “^aYou shall not ¹associate with them, nor shall they associate with you, for they will surely turn your heart away after their gods.” Solomon held fast to these in love.

^3aHe had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines, and his wives turned his heart away.

⁴For when Solomon was old, his wives turned his heart away after other gods; and ^ahis heart was not ¹wholly devoted to the Lord his God, as the heart of David his father had been.

⁵For Solomon went after ^aAshtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians and after ^1bMilcom the detestable idol of the Ammonites.

⁶Solomon did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, and did not follow the Lord fully, as David his father had done.

⁷Then Solomon built a high place for ^aChemosh the detestable idol of Moab, on the mountain which is ¹east of Jerusalem, and for ^bMolech the detestable idol of the sons of Ammon.

⁸Thus also he did for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods.