1 Kings 11
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1 Kings 11:1-8

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.

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Notes

  1. 1. 1 Kings 11:1 Deut 17:17; Neh 13:23-27 ↩
  2. 2. 1 Kings 11:2 Ex 23:31-33; 34:12-16; Deut 7:3 ↩
  3. 3. 1 Kings 11:2 Lit go among ↩
  4. 4. 1 Kings 11:2 Lit go among ↩
  5. 5. 1 Kings 11:2 Lit after their ↩
  6. 6. 1 Kings 11:3 2 Sam 5:13-16 ↩
  7. 7. 1 Kings 11:3 Or women of rank ↩
  8. 8. 1 Kings 11:4 Lit after other ↩
  9. 9. 1 Kings 11:4 1 Kin 9:4 ↩
  10. 10. 1 Kings 11:4 Lit complete with ↩
  11. 11. 1 Kings 11:5 Judg 2:13; 10:6; 1 Sam 7:3, 4 ↩
  12. 12. 1 Kings 11:5 In Jer 49:1, 3, Malcam ↩
  13. 13. 1 Kings 11:5 1 Kin 11:7 ↩
  14. 14. 1 Kings 11:7 Num 21:29; Judg 11:24; 2 Kin 23:13 ↩
  15. 15. 1 Kings 11:7 Lit before ↩
  16. 16. 1 Kings 11:7 Lev 20:2-5; 2 Kin 23:10; Acts 7:43 ↩

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