1 Könige 11:5

5 Also wandelte Salomo Asthoreth, der Göttin derer von Sidon, nach und Milkom, dem Greuel der Ammoniter.

1 Könige 11:5 Meaning and Commentary

1 Kings 11:5

And Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians,
&c.] Enticed by the Zidonian women, or woman, he had, ( 1 Kings 11:1 ) . According to the Phoenician histories ^F9, Solomon married a daughter of Hiram, king of Tyre and Zidon; so Clemens of Alexandria says ^F11, that Hiram gave his daughter to Solomon; Ashtoreth is Astarte, the same with the Venus of the Greeks, so Suidas ^F12; and Lucian ^F13 expressly says, the Sidonians had a temple, said by them to belong to Astarte, which he takes to be the moon; and both Venus and Juno signify the same planet; (See Gill on Judges 2:13)

and after Milcom the abomination of the Amnonites;
the same with Molech, ( 1 Kings 11:7 ) . (See Gill on Leviticus 18:21). (See Gill on Amos 1:13). After this he was drawn by his Ammonitish wife, or wives, ( 1 Kings 11:1 ) , though the Jewish writers think he did not worship these idols, but suffered his wives to do it, and connived at it, which was his sin; so Ben Gersom and Abarbinel.

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FOOTNOTES:

F9 Apud Tatian. contr. Graecos, p. 171.
F11 Stromat. l. 1. p. 325.
F12 In voce (Astarth) .
F13 De Dea Syria.

1 Könige 11:5 In-Context

3 Und er hatte siebenhundert Weiber zu Frauen und dreihundert Kebsweiber; und seine Weiber neigten sein Herz.

4 Und da er nun alt war, neigten seine Weiber sein Herz den fremden Göttern nach, daß sein Herz nicht ganz war mit dem HERRN, seinem Gott, wie das Herz seines Vaters David.

5 Also wandelte Salomo Asthoreth, der Göttin derer von Sidon, nach und Milkom, dem Greuel der Ammoniter.

6 Und Salomo tat, was dem HERRN übel gefiel, und folgte nicht gänzlich dem HERRN wie sein Vater David.

7 Da baute Salomo eine Höhe Kamos, dem Greuel der Moabiter, auf dem Berge, der vor Jerusalem liegt, und Moloch, dem Greuel der Ammoniter.