1 Kings 11:7
Then Solomon put up a high place for Chemosh, the disgusting god of Moab, in the mountain before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the disgusting god worshipped by the children of Ammon.
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8And so he did for all his strange wives, who made offerings with burning of perfumes to their gods.
Cross References
Genesis 33:2He put the servants and their children in front, Leah and her children after them, and Rachel and Joseph at the back.
Leviticus 26:30And I will send destruction on your high places, overturning your perfume altars, and will put your dead bodies on your broken images, and my soul will be turned from you in disgust.
Numbers 33:52See that all the people of the land are forced out from before you, and put to destruction all their pictured stones, and all their metal images, and all their high places:
Deuteronomy 17:3By becoming a servant of other gods and worshipping them or the sun or the moon or all the stars of heaven, against my orders;
Judges 11:24Do you not keep the lands of those whom Chemosh your god sends out from before you? So we will keep all the lands of those whom the Lord our God sends out from before us.
1 Kings 15:12Those used for sex purposes in the worship of the gods he sent out of the country, and he took away all the images which 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 →