Solomon followed Ashtoreth,(A) the goddess of the Sidonians, and Milcom,(B) the abhorrent idol of the Ammonites.(C)

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At that time, Solomon built a high place(A) for Chemosh,(B) the abhorrent idol of Moab, and for Milcom,[a](C) the abhorrent idol of the Ammonites, on the hill across from Jerusalem.(D)

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Footnotes

  1. 11:7 Lit Molech

33 For they have abandoned me; they have bowed down to Ashtoreth, the goddess of the Sidonians, to Chemosh, the god of Moab, and to Milcom, the god of the Ammonites.(A) They have not walked in my ways to do what is right in my sight and to carry out my statutes and my judgments as his father David did.(B)

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those who bow in worship on the rooftops(A)
to the stars in the sky;
those who bow and pledge loyalty to the Lord(B)
but also pledge loyalty to Milcom;[a](C)

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Footnotes

  1. 1:5 Some LXX mss, Syr, Vg; MT, other LXX mss read their king

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