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1 Kings 11:5

King James Version (KJV)

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Scripture focus

For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.

1 Kings 11:5 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on 1 Kings 11:5

Theological / Devotional

Ashtoreth. The goddess of love and fertility, whose worship was one of license and impurity.

Milcom. Chief god of the Ammonites.

Abomination. The worship of these native gods involved rites too horrible to mention. So monstrous were the crimes committed in the service of these gods that the Lord commanded that the native peoples of Canaan engaged in the worship of these deities should be utterly destroyed (Deut. 7:2–5).

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