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For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.
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Solomon did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and didn't go fully after Yahweh, as did David his father.
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Then did Solomon build a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, on the mountain that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech the abomination of the children of Ammon.
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So did he for all his foreign wives, who burnt incense and sacrificed to their gods.
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Yahweh was angry with Solomon, because his heart was turned away from Yahweh, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice,
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and had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not go after other gods: but he didn't keep that which Yahweh commanded.
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Therefore Yahweh said to Solomon, Because this is done of you, and you have not kept my covenant and my statutes, which I have commanded you, I will surely tear the kingdom from you, and will give it to your servant.
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Notwithstanding in your days I will not do it, for David your father's sake: but I will tear it out of the hand of your son.
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However I will not tear away all the kingdom; but I will give one tribe to your son, for David my servant's sake, and for Jerusalem's sake which I have chosen.
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Yahweh raised up an adversary to Solomon, Hadad the Edomite: he was of the king's seed in Edom.
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For it happened, when David was in Edom, and Joab the captain of the host was gone up to bury the slain, and had struck every male in Edom