1 Kings 11:8
And Solomon did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord: he went not after the Lord, as David his father.
Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
And likewise did he for all his strange wives, which burnt incense and sacrificed unto their gods.
In Context
7And thus he acted towards all his strange wives, who burnt incense and sacrificed to their idols.
Cross References
1 Kings 15:12And he removed the + 15:12 Lit. sacrifices.sodomites out of the land, and abolished all the practices which his fathers + 15:12 Gr. did, or wrought.had kept up.
Ezekiel 16:22This is beyond all thy fornication, and thou didst not remember thine infancy, when thou wast naked and bare, and didst live though defiled in thy blood.
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 →