1Kings:11:1-13

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* But king Solomon loved many foreign women , besides the daughter of Pharaoh : women of the Moabites , Ammonites , Edomites , Zidonians , Hittites ; * 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 their gods : to these Solomon was attached in love . * And he had seven hundred wives , princesses , and three hundred concubines ; and his wives turned away his heart . * And it came to pass when Solomon was old , [that ] his wives turned away his heart after other gods ; and his heart was not perfect with Jehovah his God , as the heart of David his father . * And Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians , and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites . * And Solomon did evil in the sight of Jehovah , and followed not fully Jehovah , as David his father . * 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 . * And so he did for all his foreign wives , who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods . * And Jehovah was angry with Solomon , because his heart was turned away from Jehovah the God of Israel , who had appeared to him twice , * and had commanded him concerning this thing , not to go after other gods ; but he kept not what Jehovah had commanded . * And Jehovah said to Solomon , Forasmuch as this is done by thee , and thou hast not kept my covenant and my statutes which I commanded thee , I will certainly rend the kingdom from thee , and will give it to thy servant : * notwithstanding in thy days I will not do it , for David thy father 's sake ; I will rend it out of the hand of thy son ; * only , I will not rend away all the kingdom : I will give one tribe to thy son , for David my servant 's sake , and for Jerusalem 's sake which I have chosen .

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