Bible verse
So Solomon did evil in the sight of the LORD; unlike his father David, he did not follow the LORD completely.
1 Kings 11:6 · BSB
The verses around it, from 1 Kings 11.
2 These women were from the nations about which the LORD had told the Israelites, “You must not intermarry with them, for surely they will turn your hearts after their gods.” Yet Solomon clung to these women in love.
3 He had seven hundred wives of royal birth and three hundred concubines—and his wives turned his heart away.
4 For when Solomon grew old, his wives turned his heart after other gods, and he was not wholeheartedly devoted to the LORD his God, as his father David had been.
5 Solomon followed Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians and Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.
6 So Solomon did evil in the sight of the LORD; unlike his father David, he did not follow the LORD completely.
7 At that time on a hill east of Jerusalem, Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab and for Molech the abomination of the Ammonites.
8 He did the same for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods.
9 Now the LORD grew angry with Solomon, because his heart had turned away from the LORD, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice.
10 Although He had warned Solomon explicitly not to follow other gods, Solomon did not keep the LORD’s command.
KJV
And Solomon did evil in the sight of the LORD, and went not fully after the LORD, as [did] David his father.
ASV
And Solomon did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, and went not fully after Jehovah, as did David his father.
ERV
And Solomon did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, and went not fully after the LORD, as did David his father.
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