1 Kings 11
Reading 1 Kings chapter 11 in the Darby Bible, public-domain text from 1890.
Verses 1–10
1 But king Solomon loved many foreign women, besides the daughter of Pharaoh: women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, Hittites;
2 of the nations of which Jehovah had said to the children of Israel, Ye shall not go in to them, neither shall they come in to you; they would certainly turn away your heart after theirgods: to these Solomon was attached in love.
3 And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines; and his wives turned away his heart.
4 And it came to pass when Solomon was old, [that] his wives turned away his heart after othergods; and his heart was not perfect with Jehovah hisGod, as the heart of David his father.
5 And Solomon went after Ashtoreth thegoddess of the Zidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.
6 And Solomon did evil in the sight of Jehovah, and followed not fully Jehovah, as David his father.
7 Then did Solomon build a high place for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, on the hill that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech the abomination of the children of Ammon.
8 And so he did for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to theirgods.
9 And Jehovah was angry with Solomon, because his heart was turned away from Jehovah theGod of Israel, who had appeared to him twice,
10 and had commanded him concerning this thing, not to go after othergods; but he kept not what Jehovah had commanded.
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