3. SOLOMON loved The LORD, walking in the statutes of David his father; except that he sacrificed and burned incense in the high places.

4. The king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there; for that was the great high place. SOLOMON offered a thousand burnt offerings on that altar.

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.

Didn't SOLOMON king of Israel sin by these things? Yet among many nations was there no king like him, and he was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel. Nevertheless foreign women caused even him to sin.