1 Kings 11:8

8 Thus he did for all of his foreign wives, offering incense and sacrificing to their gods.

1 Kings 11:8 Meaning and Commentary

1 Kings 11:8

And likewise did he for all his strange wives
That is, built high places for their idols, or suffered them to be built; for when he had done it for one, he could not refuse it to another, without greatly disobliging them; even for as many of them,

which burnt incense, and sacrificed unto their gods;
the gods of the countries from whence they came, and in the worship of which they had been brought up: this shows that the best and wisest of men, when left to themselves, may do the worst and most foolish of all things; as nothing can be more so than the worship of such wretched deities.

1 Kings 11:8 In-Context

6 So Solomon did evil in the eyes of Yahweh and did not fully [follow] after Yahweh as David his father.

7 At that time, Solomon built a high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, on the mountain which {faces} Jerusalem and for Molech, the abomination of the {Ammonites}.

8 Thus he did for all of his foreign wives, offering incense and sacrificing to their gods.

9 Yahweh was angry with Solomon, for he had turned his heart from Yahweh, the God of Israel who had appeared to him twice.

10 And he had commanded him concerning this matter not to go after other gods, but he did not keep that which Yahweh commanded.