3 He had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines; and his wives turned away his heart.
4 When Solomon was old, his wives turned away his heart after other gods; and his heart was not perfect with the Lord his God, as the heart of David his father was.
5 For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.
6 Solomon did that which was evil in the Lord’s sight, and didn’t go fully after the Lord, as David his father did.
7 Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, on the mountain that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech the abomination of the children of Ammon.
8 So he did for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods.
9 The Lord was angry with Solomon, because his heart was turned away from the Lord, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice,