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1 Kings - ch 11 v 1 - 20
- And king Solomon loved many strange women besides the daughter of Pharao, and women of Moab, and of Ammon, and of Edom, and of Sidon, and of the Hethites:
- Of the nations concerning which the Lord said to the children of Israel: You shall not go in unto them, neither shall any of them come in to yours: for they will most certainly turn away your heart to follow their gods. And to these was Solomon joined with a most ardent love.
- And he had seven hundred wives as queens, and three hundred concubines: and the women turned away his heart.
- And when he was now old, his heart was turned away by women to follow strange gods: and his heart was not perfect with the Lord his God, as was the heart of David his father.
- But Solomon worshipped Astarthe the goddess of the Sidonians, and Moloch the idol of the ammonites.
- And Solomon did that which was net pleasing before the Lord, and did not fully follow the Lord, as David his father.
- Then Solomon built a temple for Chamos the idol of Moab, on the hill that is over against Jerusalem, and for Moloch the idol of the children of Ammon.
- And he did in this manner for all his wives that were strangers, who burnt incense, and offered sacrifice to their gods.
- And the Lord was angry with Solomon, because his mind was turned away from the Lord the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice,
- And had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not follow strange gods: but he kept not the things which the Lord commanded him.
- The Lord therefore said to Solomon: Because thou hast done this, and hast not kept my covenant, and my precepts, which I have commanded thee, I will divide and rend thy kingdom, and will give it to thy servant.
- Nevertheless in thy days I will not do it, for David thy father's sake: but I will rend it out of the hand of thy son.
- Neither will I take away the whole kingdom, but I will give one tribe to thy son for the sake of David my servant, and Jerusalem which I have chosen.
- And the Lord raised up an adversary to Solomon, Adad the Edomite of the king's seed, in Edom.
- For when David was in Edom, and Joab the general of the army was gone up to bury them that were slain, and had killed every male in Edom,
- (For Joab remained there six months with all Israel, till he had slain every male in Edom,)
- Then Adad fled, he and certain Edomites, of his father's servants with him, to go into Egypt: and Adad was then a little boy.
- And they arose out of Madian, and came into Pharan, and they took men with them from Pharan, and went into Egypt to Pharao the king of Egypt: who gave him a house, and appointed him victuals, and assigned him land.
- And Adad found great favour before Pharao, insomuch that he gave him to wife, the own sister of his wife Taphnes the queen.
- And the sister of Taphnes bore him his son Genubath, and Taphnes brought him up in the house of Pharao: and Genubath dwelt with Pharao among his children.
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