1 Kings 11:1-13

1Now 1King Solomon loved many foreign women along with the daughter of Pharaoh: Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, and Hittite women, 2from the nations of which the Lord had said to the sons of Israel, “2You shall not 3associate with them, nor shall they 4associate with you; they will certainly turn your heart away 5to follow their gods.” Solomon clung to these in love. 36He had seven hundred wives, who were 7princesses, and three hundred concubines; and his wives turned his heart away. 4For when Solomon was old, his wives turned his heart away 8to follow other gods; and 9his heart was not 10wholly devoted to the Lord his God, as the heart of his father David had been. 5For Solomon became a follower of 11Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and of 1213Milcom the abhorrent idol of the Ammonites. 6So Solomon did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, and did not follow the Lord fully, as his father David had done. 7Then Solomon built a high place for 14Chemosh, the abhorrent idol of Moab, on the mountain that is 15east of Jerusalem, and for 16Molech, the abhorrent idol of the sons of Ammon. 8He also did the same for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods.

9Now 17the Lord was angry with Solomon 18because his heart had turned away from the Lord, the God of Israel, 19who had appeared to him twice, 10and 20had commanded him regarding this thing, that he was not to follow other gods; but he did not comply with what the Lord had commanded. 11So the Lord said to Solomon, “Since 21you have done this, and you have not kept My covenant and My statutes, which I have commanded you, 22I will certainly tear the kingdom away from you, and will give it to your servant. 12However, I will not do it in your days, only for the sake of your father David; but I will tear it away from the hand of your son. 13Yet 23I will not tear away all the kingdom, but 24I will give one tribe to your son for the sake of My servant David, and 25for the sake of Jerusalem, which I have chosen.”