1 Kings 11:1-10

¹King Solomon, however, loved many foreign women along with the daughter of Pharaoh — women of Moab, Ammon, Edom, and Sidon, as well as Hittite women.

²These women were from the nations about which the LORD had told the Israelites, “You must not intermarry with them, for surely they will turn your hearts after their gods.” Yet Solomon clung to these women in love.

³He had seven hundred wives of royal birth and three hundred concubines — and his wives turned his heart away.

⁴For when Solomon grew old, his wives turned his heart after other gods, and he was not wholeheartedly devoted to the LORD his God, as his father David had been.

⁵Solomon followed Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians and Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.

⁶So Solomon did evil in the sight of the LORD; unlike his father David, he did not follow the LORD completely.

⁷At that time on a hill east of Jerusalem, Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab and for Molech the abomination of the Ammonites.

⁸He did the same for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods.

⁹Now the LORD grew angry with Solomon, because his heart had turned away from the LORD, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice.

¹⁰Although He had warned Solomon explicitly not to follow other gods, Solomon did not keep the LORD’s command.

— 1 Kings 11:1-10

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Cross References for 1 Kings 11:1-10

• Exodus 34:16
• Deuteronomy 7:3-4
• Deuteronomy 17:17
• Joshua 23:12-13
• 1 Kings 3:5
• 1 Kings 9:2
• 2 Corinthians 6:14-16
• Numbers 25:1-3
• 1 Kings 9:4
• Exodus 23:32-33

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