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.

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).

⁵ tn Heb “and the same thing he did for all his foreign wives, [who] were burning incense and sacrificing to their gods.”