rsv 1Kings:11:1-13 SEEK
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Now King Solomon loved many foreign women :
the daughter of Pharaoh ,
and Moabite ,
Ammonite ,
E '
domite ,
Sido '
nian ,
and Hittite women ,
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from the nations concerning which the LORD had said to the people of Israel , "
You shall not enter into marriage with them ,
neither shall they with you ,
for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods ";
Solomon clung to these in love .
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He had seven hundred wives ,
princesses ,
and three hundred concubines ;
and his wives turned away his heart .
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For when Solomon was old his wives turned away his heart after other gods ;
and his heart was not wholly true to the LORD his God ,
as was the heart of David his father .
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For Solomon went after Ash '
toreth the goddess of the Sido '
nians ,
and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites .
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So Solomon did what was evil in the sight of the LORD ,
and did not wholly follow the LORD ,
as David his father had done .
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Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab ,
and for Molech the abomination of the Ammonites ,
on the mountain east of Jerusalem .
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And so he did for all his foreign wives ,
who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods .
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And the LORD was angry with Solomon ,
because his heart had turned away from the LORD ,
the God of Israel ,
who had appeared to him twice ,
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and had commanded him concerning this thing ,
that he should not go after other gods ;
but he did not keep what the LORD commanded .
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Therefore the LORD said to Solomon , "
Since this has been your mind and you have not kept my covenant and my statutes which I have commanded you ,
I will surely tear the kingdom from you and will give it to your servant .
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Yet for the sake of David your father I will not do it in your days ,
but I will tear it out of the hand of your son .
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However I will not tear away all the kingdom ;
but I will give one tribe to your son ,
for the sake of David my servant and for the sake of Jerusalem which I have chosen ."