^{1 Ref} Now king Solomon loved many foreign women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites;

^{2 Ref} of the nations concerning which Yahweh said to the children of Israel, You shall not go among them, neither shall they come among you; for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods: Solomon joined to these in love.

^{3 Ref} He had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines; and his wives turned away his heart.

^{4 Ref} For it happened, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his heart after other gods; and his heart was not perfect with Yahweh his God, as was the heart of David his father.

^{5 Ref} For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.