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Now ^(a)King Solomon loved many foreign women along with the daughter of Pharaoh: Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, and Hittite women,

from the nations concerning which the Lord had said to the sons of Israel, "^(b)You shall not ^[a]associate with them, nor shall they ^[b]associate with you, for they will surely turn your heart away after their gods." Solomon held fast to these in love.

^(c)He had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines, and his wives turned his heart away.

For when Solomon was old, his wives turned his heart away after other gods; and ^(d)his heart was not ^[c]wholly devoted to the Lord his God, as the heart of David his father had been.

For Solomon went after ^(e)Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians and after ^[d](f)Milcom the detestable idol of the Ammonites.

Solomon did what was evil in the sight of the Lord , and did not follow the Lord fully, as David his father had done.

Then Solomon built a high place for ^(g)Chemosh the detestable idol of Moab, on the mountain which is ^[e]east of Jerusalem, and for ^(h)Molech the detestable idol of the sons of Ammon.

Thus also he did for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods.