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Then Solomon followed Ashtarte, the goddess of the Sidonians, and Milcom, the detestable god of the Ammonites. So Solomon did evil in the eyes of the Lord. He did not devote himself to the Lord as his father David had done. Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh, the detestable god of Moab, on the hill east of Jerusalem and for Molek,[a] the detestable god of the Ammonites.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 11:7 The Hebrew text switches from Milcom in verse 5 to Molek in verse 7.