3. He had seven hundred royal wives and three hundred secondary wives. They turned his heart.
4. As Solomon grew old, his wives turned his heart after other gods. He wasn’t committed to the Lord his God with all his heart as was his father David.
5. Solomon followed Astarte the goddess of the Sidonians, and Milcom the detestable god of the Ammonites.
6. Solomon did what was evil in the Lord’s eyes and wasn’t completely devoted to the Lord like his father David.
7. On the hill east of Jerusalem, Solomon built a shrine to Chemosh the detestable god of Moab, and to Molech the detestable god of the Ammonites.
8. He did the same for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods.