Holy Scripture
1 Kings 11:8
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“Solomon was in his time David's son, a great man, through whom many holy precepts and healthful admonitions and divine mysteries have been wrought by the Holy Spirit in the Scriptures. Solomon himself was a lover of women and was rejected by God: and this lust was so great a snare to him that he was induced by women e…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
8And Solomon did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord: he went not after the Lord, as David his father.
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6and to Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians.
7And thus he acted toward all his strange wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their idols.
— 1 Kings 11:8 —
9And the Lord was angry with Solomon, because he turned away his heart from the Lord God of Israel, who had appeared twice to him,
10and charged him concerning this matter, by no means to go after other gods, but to take heed to do what the Lord God commanded him; neither was his heart perfect with the Lord, according to the heart of David his father.