1 Kings 11:8
Good News Translation
He also built places of worship where all his foreign wives could burn incense and offer sacrifices to their own gods.

New Revised Standard Version
He did the same for all his foreign wives, who offered incense and sacrificed to their gods.

Contemporary English Version
In fact, he built a shrine for each of his foreign wives, so all of them could burn incense and offer sacrifices to their own gods.

New American Bible
He did the same for all his foreign wives who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he did in this manner for all his wives that were strangers, who burnt incense, and offered sacrifice to their gods.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And he did in this manner for all his wives that were strangers, who burnt incense, and offered sacrifice to their gods.

all his strange wives

1 Kings 11:1 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:

Ezekiel 16:22-29 And after all thy abominations, and fornications, thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, when thou wast naked, and full of confusion, trodden under foot in thy own blood. . . .

Hosea 4:11,12 Fornication, and wine, and drunkenness, take away the understanding. . . .

1 Corinthians 10:11,12,20-22 Now all these things happened to them in figure: and they are written for our correction, upon whom the ends of the world are come. . . .

Context
Solomon's Foreign Wives
7Then 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. 8And he did in this manner for all his wives that were strangers, who burnt incense, and offered sacrifice to their gods.
Cross References
1 Kings 11:7
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.

1 Kings 11:9
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;

1 Kings 15:12
And he took away the effeminate out of the land, and removed all the filth of the idols, which his fathers had made.

Jeremiah 32:31
For this city hath been to me a provocation and indignation from the day that they built it, until this day, in which it shall be taken out of my sight.

1 Kings 11:7
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