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1 Kings 11:7
“Then did Solomon build 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.”
Verse in context — 1 Kings 11
5
For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.
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Solomon did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and didn't go fully after Yahweh, as did David his father.
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Then did Solomon build 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.
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So did he for all his foreign wives, who burnt incense and sacrificed to their gods.
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Yahweh was angry with Solomon, because his heart was turned away from Yahweh, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice,
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Solomon’s reign, the temple’s construction, and the kingdom’s division.
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