Solomon Turns from the Lord
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King Solomon loved many foreign women along with the daughter of Pharaoh: Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, and Hittite women,
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from the nations concerning which the Lord had said to the Israelites, "You shall not enter into marriage with them, neither shall they with you; for they will surely incline your heart to follow their gods"; Solomon clung to these in love.
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Among his wives were seven hundred princesses and three hundred concubines; and his wives turned away his heart.
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For when Solomon was old, his wives turned away his heart after other gods; and his heart was not true to the Lord his God, as was the heart of his father David.
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For Solomon followed Astarte the goddess of the Sidonians, and Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.
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So Solomon did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, and did not completely follow the Lord, as his father David had done.
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Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for Molech the abomination of the Ammonites, on the mountain east of Jerusalem.
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He did the same for all his foreign wives, who offered incense and sacrificed to their gods.