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1 Kings 11:6
“Solomon did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and didn't go fully after Yahweh, as did David his father.”
1 Kings 11:6 in the King James Version
And Solomon did evil in the sight of the LORD, and went not fully after the LORD, as did David his father.Read 1 Kings 11:6 in the King James Version →
Verse in context — 1 Kings 11
For it happened, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his heart after other gods; and his heart was not perfect with Yahweh his God, as was the heart of David his father.
For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.
Solomon did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and didn't go fully after Yahweh, as did David his father.
Then did Solomon build 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.
So did he for all his foreign wives, who burnt incense and sacrificed to their gods.
Cross references for 1 Kings 11:6
- Numbers 14:24
but my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and has followed me fully, him will I bring into the land into which he went; and his seed shall possess it.
- Joshua 14:14
Therefore Hebron became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite to this day; because he wholly followed Yahweh, the God of Israel.
- Joshua 14:8
Nevertheless, my brothers who went up with me made the heart of the people melt; but I wholly followed Yahweh my God.
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Solomon’s reign, the temple’s construction, and the kingdom’s division.
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