1 Kings 11:7

Then Solomon built a temple for Chamos the idol of Moab, on the hill that is over against Jerusalem, and for Moloch the idol of the children of Ammon.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

Then did Solomon build an high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, in the hill that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the abomination of the children of Ammon.

In Context

6And Solomon did that which was net pleasing before the Lord, and did not fully follow the Lord, as David his father.

8And he did in this manner for all his wives that were strangers, who burnt incense, and offered sacrifice to their gods.

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Cross References

Genesis 33:2And he put both the handmaids and their children foremost: and Lia and her children in the second place: and Rachel and Joseph last.

Leviticus 26:30I will destroy your high places, and break your idols. You shall fall among the ruins of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you.

Numbers 33:52Destroy all the inhabitants of that land: beat down their pillars, and break in pieces their statues, and waste all their high places,

Deuteronomy 17:3So as to go and serve strange gods, and adore them, the sun and the moon. and all the host of heaven, which I have not commanded:

Judges 11:24Are not those things which thy god Chamos possesseth, due to thee by right? But what the Lord our God hath obtained by conquest, shall be our possession:

1 Kings 15:12And he took away the effeminate out of the land, and he removed all the filth of the idols, 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 →

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