3 He had 700 wives who were princesses and 300 wives who were concubines.
4 In his old age, his wives tempted him to follow other gods. He was no longer committed to the Lord his God as his father David had been.
5 Solomon followed Astarte (the goddess of the Sidonians) and Milcom (the disgusting idol of the Ammonites).
6 So Solomon did what the Lord considered evil. He did not wholeheartedly follow the Lord as his father David had done.
7 Then Solomon built an illegal worship site on the hill east of Jerusalem for Chemosh (the disgusting idol of Moab) and for Molech (the disgusting idol of the Ammonites).
8 He did these things for each of his foreign wives who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods.
9 So the Lord became angry with Solomon because his heart had turned from the Lord God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice.