Solomon's Apostasy and Idolatry

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And king Solomon loved many strange women, besides the daughter of Pharao, and women of Moab, and of Ammon, and of Edom, and of Sidon, and of the Hethites:

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Of the nations concerning which the Lord said to the children of Israel: You shall not go in unto them, neither shall any of them come into yours: for they will most certainly turn away your hearts to follow their gods. And to these was Solomon joined with a most ardent love.

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And he had seven hundred wives as queens, and three hundred concubines: and the women turned away his heart.

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And when he was now old, his heart was turned away by women to follow strange gods: and his heart was not perfect with the Lord his God, as was the heart of David, his father.

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But Solomon worshipped Astarthe, the goddess of the Sidonians, and Moloch, the idol of the Ammonites.

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And Solomon did that which was not pleasing before the Lord, and did not fully follow the Lord, as David, his father.

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Then Solomon built a temple for Chamos, the idol of Moab, on the hill that is over against Jerusalem, and for Moloch, the idol of the children of Ammon.

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And he did in this manner for all his wives that were strangers, who burnt incense, and offered sacrifice to their gods.

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