1 Kings 11:1-8

Solomon Turns from Yahweh

Now ^aKing Solomon loved many foreign women along with the daughter of Pharaoh: Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, and Hittite women, 2 from the nations concerning which Yahweh had said to the sons of Israel, “^aYou shall not ¹go along with them, nor shall they ¹go along with you, for they will surely turn your heart away after their gods.” Solomon clung to these in love. 3 ^aAnd he had 700 wives—princesses—and 300 concubines, and his wives turned his heart away. 4 Now it happened at the time that Solomon was old, his wives turned his heart away after other gods; and ^ahis heart was not ¹wholly devoted to Yahweh his God, as the heart of David his father had been. 5 For Solomon went after ^aAshtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians and after ¹^bMilcom the detestable idol of the Ammonites. 6 And Solomon did what was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and did not follow Yahweh fully, as David his father had done. 7 Then Solomon built a high place for ^aChemosh the detestable idol of Moab, on the mountain which is ¹east of Jerusalem, and for ^bMolech the detestable idol of the sons of Ammon. 8 Thus also he did for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods.

1 Kings 15:13

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13 ¹^aHe also removed Maacah his mother from being queen mother, because she had made a horrid image ²for Asherah; and Asa cut down her horrid image and ^bburned it at the brook Kidron.

1 Kings 16:31

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31 Now it happened, as though it had been a trivial thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that ^ahe took Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the ^bSidonians as a wife, and went and served Baal and worshiped him.