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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.
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He did the same for all his foreign wives, who offered incense and sacrificed to their gods.
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Then the Lord was angry with Solomon, because his heart had turned away from the Lord, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice,
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and had commanded him concerning this matter, that he should not follow other gods; but he did not observe what the Lord commanded.
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Therefore the Lord said to Solomon, "Since this has been your mind and you have not kept my covenant and my statutes that I have commanded you, I will surely tear the kingdom from you and give it to your servant.
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Yet for the sake of your father David I will not do it in your lifetime; I will tear it out of the hand of your son.
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I will not, however, tear away the entire kingdom; I will give one tribe to your son, for the sake of my servant David and for the sake of Jerusalem, which I have chosen."
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Then the Lord raised up an adversary against Solomon, Hadad the Edomite; he was of the royal house in Edom.
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For when David was in Edom, and Joab the commander of the army went up to bury the dead, he killed every male in Edom
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(for Joab and all Israel remained there six months, until he had eliminated every male in Edom);
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but Hadad fled to Egypt with some Edomites who were servants of his father. He was a young boy at that time.