⁷ Then the five men departed and came to ^(A)Laish and saw the people who were in it living in security, after the manner of the Sidonians, quiet and secure; for there was no ^[a]ruler humiliating them for anything in the land, and they were far from the Sidonians and had no dealings with anyone.

Solomon Turns from God

11 Now ^(A)King Solomon loved many foreign women along with the daughter of Pharaoh: Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, and Hittite women, ² from the nations concerning which the Lord had said to the sons of Israel, “^(B)You shall not ^[a]associate with them, nor shall they ^[b]associate with you, for they will surely turn your heart away after their gods.” Solomon held fast to these in love. ^3 (C)He had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines, and his wives turned his heart away. ⁴ For when Solomon was old, his wives turned his heart away after other gods; and ^(D)his heart was not ^[c]wholly devoted to the Lord his God, as the heart of David his father had been. ⁵ For Solomon went after ^(E)Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians and after ^[d](F)Milcom the detestable idol of the Ammonites.

Jehu Destroys Baal Worshipers

¹⁸ Then Jehu gathered all the people and said to them, “^(A)Ahab served Baal a little; Jehu will serve him much.

¹⁶ They forsook all the commandments of the Lord their God and made for themselves molten images, even ^(A)two calves, and ^(B)made an ^[a]Asherah and ^(C)worshiped all the host of heaven and ^(D)served Baal.