For Solomon went after (A)Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and after (B)Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites. So Solomon did what was evil in the sight of the Lord and did not wholly follow the Lord, as David his father had done. Then Solomon built a high place for (C)Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for (D)Molech the abomination of the Ammonites, on the mountain east of Jerusalem. And so he did for all his foreign wives, who made offerings and sacrificed to their gods.

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