1 Kings 11:6

6 So Solomon did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, and did not completely follow the Lord, as his father David had done.

1 Kings 11:6 Meaning and Commentary

1 Kings 11:6

And Solomon did evil in the sight of the Lord
As idolatry is, nothing more provoking to him:

and went not fully after the Lord, as did David his father;
for though he did not relinquish the worship of the true God, and the service of the temple, yet inasmuch as he worshipped other gods besides, or connived at the worship of them, he did not wholly, and constantly, and solely serve the Lord, as his father did.

1 Kings 11:6 In-Context

4 For when Solomon was old, his wives turned away his heart after other gods; and his heart was not true to the Lord his God, as was the heart of his father David.

5 For Solomon followed Astarte the goddess of the Sidonians, and Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.

6 So Solomon did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, and did not completely follow the Lord, as his father David had done.

7 Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for Molech the abomination of the Ammonites, on the mountain east of Jerusalem.

8 He did the same for all his foreign wives, who offered incense and sacrificed to their gods.