1 Kings 11:7
Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab on the mount that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech the abomination of the sons of Ammon.
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8And so he did for all his foreign wives, who burnt incense and sacrificed to their gods.
Cross References
Genesis 33:2And he put the handmaids and their children foremost, and Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph hindmost.
Leviticus 26:30And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your sun-images, and cast your dead bodies upon the bodies of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you.
Numbers 33:52then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their figured [stones], and destroy all their molten images, and demolish all their high places.
Deuteronomy 17:3and has gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, or the sun, or the moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded,
Judges 11:24Will thou not possess that which Chemosh thy god gives thee to possess? So whomever LORD our God has dispossessed from before us, them will we possess.
1 Kings 15:12And he put away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
Matthew Henry on 1 Kings 11:2-9
Solomon's Defection and Degeneracy. ( b. c. 983.) 1 But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites; 2 Of the nations concerning which the Lord said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall not go in to them, neither shall they come in unto you: for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods: Solomon clave unto these in love. 3 And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines: and… Read the whole commentary →