1. Now king SOLOMON loved many foreign women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites;

2. of the nations concerning which the LORD said to the children of Israel, "You shall not go among them, neither shall they come among you; for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods." SOLOMON joined to these in love.

3. He had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines; and his wives turned away his heart.

4. When SOLOMON was old, his wives turned away his heart after other gods; and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God, as the heart of David his father was.

5. For SOLOMON went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.

6. SOLOMON did that which was evil in The LORD's sight, and didn't go fully after The LORD, as David his father did.

7. Then SOLOMON built 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.

8. So he did for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods.

The king defiled the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mountain of corruption, which SOLOMON the king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon.