1 Kings 11:1–8

Solomon’s Heart Turns from the Lord

11But ^aKing Solomon loved ^bmany foreign women, as well as the daughter of Pharaoh: women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites—²from the nations of whom the Lord had said to the children of Israel, ^c“You shall not intermarry with them, nor they with you. Surely they will turn away your hearts after their gods.” Solomon clung to these in love. ³And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines; and his wives turned away his heart. ⁴For it was so, when Solomon was old, ^dthat his wives turned his heart after other gods; and his ^eheart was not ¹loyal to the Lord his God, ^fas was the heart of his father David. ⁵For Solomon went after ^gAshtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and after ^hMilcom ²the abomination of the ⁱAmmonites. ⁶Solomon did evil in the sight of the Lord, and did not fully follow the Lord, as did his father David. ^7jThen Solomon built a ³high place for ^kChemosh the abomination of Moab, on ^lthe hill that is east of Jerusalem, and for Molech the abomination of the people of Ammon. ⁸And he did likewise for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods.