1 Kings 11:5-8

11:5 Solomon worshiped ¹  the Sidonian goddess Astarte and the detestable Ammonite god Milcom. ²  11:6 Solomon did evil in the Lord’s sight; ³  he did not remain loyal to ⁴  the Lord, like his father David had. 11:7 Furthermore, ⁵  on the hill east of Jerusalem ⁶  Solomon built a high place ⁷  for the detestable Moabite god Chemosh ⁸  and for the detestable Ammonite god Milcom. ⁹  11:8 He built high places for all his foreign wives so they could burn incense and make sacrifices to their gods. ¹⁰ 

¹ tn Heb “walked after.”

² tn Heb “Milcom, the detestable thing of the Ammonites.”

³ tn Heb “in the eyes of the Lord.”

⁴ tn The idiomatic statement reads in Hebrew, “he did not fill up after.”

⁵ tn Heb “then.”

⁶ sn The hill east of Jerusalem refers to the Mount of Olives.

⁷ sn A high place. The “high places” were places of worship that were naturally or artificially elevated (see 1 Kgs 3:2).

⁸ tn Heb “Chemosh, the detestable thing of Moab.”

⁹ tc The MT reads “Molech,” but Milcom must be intended (see vv. 5, 33).

¹⁰ tn Heb “and the same thing he did for all his foreign wives, [who] were burning incense and sacrificing to their gods.”