^{4 Ref} For it came about that when Solomon was old, his heart was turned away to other gods by his wives; and his heart was no longer true to the Lord his God as the heart of his father David had been.

^{5 Ref} For Solomon went after Ashtoreth, the goddess of the Zidonians, and Milcom, the disgusting god of the Ammonites.

^{6 Ref} And Solomon did evil in the eyes of the Lord, not walking in the Lord's ways with all his heart as David his father did.

^{7 Ref} Then Solomon put up a high place for Chemosh, the disgusting god of Moab, in the mountain before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the disgusting god worshipped by the children of Ammon.

^{8 Ref} And so he did for all his strange wives, who made offerings with burning of perfumes to their gods.