1. King Solomon loved many foreign women besides the daughter of Pharaoh—Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, Hittites—
2. from nations of which the Lord had said to the Israelites: You shall not join with them and they shall not join with you, lest they turn your hearts to their gods. But Solomon held them close in love.
3. He had as wives seven hundred princesses and three hundred concubines, and they turned his heart.
4. When Solomon was old his wives had turned his heart to follow other gods, and his heart was not entirely with the Lord, his God, as the heart of David his father had been.
5. Solomon followed Astarte, the goddess of the Sidonians, and Milcom, the abomination of the Ammonites.