1 Kings 11:6-8

11:6 Solomon did evil in the Lord’s sight; 1  he did not remain loyal to 2  the Lord, like his father David had. 11:7 Furthermore, 3  on the hill east of Jerusalem 4  Solomon built a high place 5  for the detestable Moabite god Chemosh 6  and for the detestable Ammonite god Milcom. 7  11:8 He built high places for all his foreign wives so they could burn incense and make sacrifices to their gods. 8 

1 tn Heb “in the eyes of the Lord.”

2 tn The idiomatic statement reads in Hebrew, “he did not fill up after.”

3 tn Heb “then.”

4 sn The hill east of Jerusalem refers to the Mount of Olives.

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5 sn A high place. The “high places” were places of worship that were naturally or artificially elevated (see 1 Kgs 3:2).

6 tn Heb “Chemosh, the detestable thing of Moab.”

7 tc The MT reads “Molech,” but Milcom must be intended (see vv. 5, 33).

8 tn Heb “and the same thing he did for all his foreign wives, [who] were burning incense and sacrificing to their gods.”