1 Kings 11:1-8

Legacy Standard Bible

Solomon Turns from Yahweh

11 Now ^(A)King Solomon loved many foreign women along with the daughter of Pharaoh: Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, and Hittite women, ² from the nations concerning which Yahweh had said to the sons of Israel, “^(B)You shall not ^[a]go along with them, nor shall they ^[b]go along with you, for they will surely turn your heart away after their gods.” Solomon clung to these in love. ^3 (C)And he had 700 wives—princesses—and 300 concubines, and his wives turned his heart away. ⁴ Now it happened at the time that Solomon was old, his wives turned his heart away after other gods; and ^(D)his heart was not ^[c]wholly devoted to Yahweh his God, as the heart of David his father had been. ⁵ For Solomon went after ^(E)Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians and after ^[d](F)Milcom the detestable idol of the Ammonites. ⁶ And Solomon did what was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and did not follow Yahweh fully, as David his father had done. ⁷ Then Solomon built a high place for ^(G)Chemosh the detestable idol of Moab, on the mountain which is ^[e]east of Jerusalem, and for ^(H)Molech the detestable idol of the sons of Ammon. ⁸ Thus also he did for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods.