World English Bible
1 Kings 11:8
“So did he for all his foreign wives, who burnt incense and sacrificed to their gods.”
Verse in context — 1 Kings 11
6
Solomon did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and didn't go fully after Yahweh, as did David his father.
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.
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So did he for all his foreign wives, who burnt incense and sacrificed to their gods.
9
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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and had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not go after other gods: but he didn't keep that which Yahweh commanded.
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Solomon’s reign, the temple’s construction, and the kingdom’s division.
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