1Kings:11:1-13

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* But King Solomon loved many foreign women , as well as the daughter of Pharaoh : women of the Moabites , Ammonites , Edomites , Sidonians , and Hittites -- * from the nations of whom the LORD had said to the children of Israel , "You shall not intermarry with them , nor they with you . Surely they will turn away your hearts after their gods ." Solomon clung to these in love . * And he had seven hundred wives , princesses , and three hundred concubines ; and his wives turned away his heart . * For it was so , when Solomon was old , that his wives turned his heart after other gods ; and his heart was not loyal to the LORD his God , as was the heart of his father David . * For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians , and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites . * Solomon did evil in the sight of the LORD , and did not fully follow the LORD , as did his father David . * Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab , on the hill that is east of Jerusalem , and for Molech the abomination of the people of Ammon . * And he did likewise for all his foreign wives , who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods . * So the LORD became angry with Solomon , because his heart had turned from the LORD God of Israel , who had appeared to him twice , * and had commanded him concerning this thing , that he should not go after other gods ; but he did not keep what the LORD had commanded . * Therefore the LORD said to Solomon , "Because you have done this , and have not kept My covenant and My statutes , which I have commanded you , I will surely tear the kingdom away from you and give it to your servant . * Nevertheless I will not do it in your days , for the sake of your father David ; I will tear it out of the hand of your son . * However I will not tear away the whole kingdom ; I will give one tribe to your son for the sake of My servant David , and for the sake of Jerusalem which I have chosen ."

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