3. He had 700 wives, princesses, and 300 concubines, and his wives turned away his heart from God.
4. For when Solomon was old, his wives turned away his heart after other gods, and his heart was not perfect (complete and whole) with the Lord his God, as was the heart of David his father.
5. For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and after Milcom the abominable idol of the Ammonites! [I Kings 9:6-9.]
6. Solomon did evil in the sight of the Lord, and went not fully after the Lord, as David his father did.
7. Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the abominable idol of Moab, on the hill opposite Jerusalem, and for Molech the abominable idol of the Ammonites.
8. And he did so for all of his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods.
9. And the Lord was angry with Solomon because his heart was turned from the Lord, the God of Israel, Who had appeared to him twice,