bes - 1Kings:11:1-13

bes@1Kings:11:1 @ And king Solomon was a lover of women.

bes@1Kings:11:2 @ And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines. - And the strange women turned away his heart after their gods.

bes@1Kings:11:3 @ And he took strange women, as well as the daughter of Pharao, Moabitish, Ammanitish women, Syrians and Idumeans, Chettites, and Amorites; and to Astarte the abomination of the Sidonians.

bes@1Kings:11:4 @ of the nations concerning whom the Lord forbade the children of Israel, saying, Ye shall not go in to them, and they shall not come in to you, lest they turn away your hearts after their idols: Solomon clave to these in love.

bes@1Kings:11:5 @ And it came to pass in the time of the old age of Solomon, that his heart was not perfect with the Lord his God, as was the heart of David his father.

bes@1Kings:11:6 @ Then Solomon built a high place to Chamos the idol of Moab, and to their king the (note:)See Hebrew(:note) idol of the children of Ammon,

bes@1Kings:11:7 @ And thus he acted towards all his strange wives, who burnt incense and sacrificed to their idols.

bes@1Kings:11:8 @ And Solomon did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord: he went not after the Lord, as David his father.

bes@1Kings:11:9 @ And the Lord was angry with Solomon, because he turned away his heart from the Lord God of Israel, who had appeared twice to him,

bes@1Kings:11:10 @ and charged him concerning this matter, by no means to go after other gods, but to take heed to do what the Lord God commanded him; neither was his heart perfect with the Lord, according to the heart of David his father.

bes@1Kings:11:11 @ And the Lord said to Solomon, Because it has been thus with thee, and thou hast not kept my commandments and my ordinances which I commanded thee, I will surely rend thy kingdom out of thy hand, and give it to thy servant.

bes@1Kings:11:12 @ Only in thy days I will not do (note:)Gr. them(:note) it for David thy father’s sake: but I will take it out of the hand of thy son.

bes@1Kings:11:13 @ Only I will not take away the whole kingdom: I will give one tribe to thy son for David my servant’s sake, and for the sake of Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen.