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Passage Lookup: 1 Kings 11:1-8
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New International Version (1984 Edition)
1 Kings 11:1
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King Solomon, however, loved many foreign women besides Pharaoh's daughter-Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians and Hittites.
1 Kings 11:2
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They were from nations about which the LORD had told the Israelites, "You must not intermarry with them, because they will surely turn your hearts after their gods." Nevertheless, Solomon held fast to them in love.
1 Kings 11:3
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He had seven hundred wives of royal birth and three hundred concubines, and his wives led him astray.
1 Kings 11:4
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As Solomon grew old, his wives turned his heart after other gods, and his heart was not fully devoted to the LORD his God, as the heart of David his father had been.
1 Kings 11:5
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He followed Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and Molech (F77) the detestable god of the Ammonites.
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1 Kings 11:6
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So Solomon did evil in the eyes of the LORD ; he did not follow the LORD completely, as David his father had done.
1 Kings 11:7
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On a hill east of Jerusalem, Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the detestable god of Moab, and for Molech the detestable god of the Ammonites.
1 Kings 11:8
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He did the same for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and offered sacrifices to their gods.
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