1. Solomon loved many foreign women. Besides the daughter of the king of Egypt he married Hittite women and women from Moab, Ammon, Edom, and Sidon.
2. He married them even though the Lord had commanded the Israelites not to intermarry with these people, because they would cause the Israelites to give their loyalty to other gods.
3. Solomon married 700 princesses and also had 300 concubines. They made him turn away from God
4. and by the time he was old they had led him into the worship of foreign gods. He was not faithful to the Lord his God, as his father David had been.
5. He worshipped Astarte the goddess of Sidon, and Molech the disgusting god of Ammon.