1 Kings 11:7

11:7 Furthermore, on the hill east of Jerusalem Solomon built a high place for the detestable Moabite god Chemosh and for the detestable Ammonite god Milcom.

1 Kings 12:25

Jeroboam Makes Golden Calves

12:25 Jeroboam built up Shechem in the Ephraimite hill country and lived there. From there he went out and built up Penuel.

1 Kings 19:8

19:8 So he got up and ate and drank. That meal gave him the strength to travel forty days and forty nights until he reached Horeb, the mountain of God.


tn Heb “then.”

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

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

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

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

tc The Old Greek translation has here a lengthy section consisting of twenty-three verses that are not found in the MT.