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King Solomon was obsessed with women. Pharaoh's daughter was only the first of the many foreign women he loved - Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, and Hittite.
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He took them from the surrounding pagan nations of which God had clearly warned Israel, "You must not marry them; they'll seduce you into infatuations with their gods." Solomon fell in love with them anyway, refusing to give them up.
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He had seven hundred royal wives and three hundred concubines - a thousand women in all! And they did seduce him away from God.
4
As Solomon grew older, his wives beguiled him with their alien gods and he became unfaithful - he didn't stay true to his God as his father David had done.
5
Solomon took up with Ashtoreth, the whore goddess of the Sidonians, and Molech, the horrible god of the Ammonites.
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Solomon openly defied God; he did not follow in his father David's footsteps.
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He went on to build a sacred shrine to Chemosh, the horrible god of Moab, and to Molech, the horrible god of the Ammonites, on a hill just east of Jerusalem.
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He built similar shrines for all his foreign wives, who then polluted the countryside with the smoke and stench of their sacrifices.
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God was furious with Solomon for abandoning the God of Israel, the God who had twice appeared to him