^6 (A)Do not go after other gods to serve and worship them, ^(B)or provoke me to anger ^(C)with the work of your hands. Then I will do you no harm.’

¹⁹ And if you forget the Lord your God and go after other gods and serve them and worship them, ^(A)I solemnly warn you today that you shall surely perish.

¹⁵ I have sent to you all my servants the prophets, sending them ^(A)persistently, saying, ^(B)‘Turn now every one of you from his evil way, and amend your deeds, and ^(C)do not go after other gods to serve them, and then you shall dwell in the land that I gave to you and your fathers.’ ^(D)But you did not incline your ear or listen to me.

⁶ if you ^(A)do not oppress the sojourner, the fatherless, or the widow, ^(B)or shed innocent blood in this place, ^(C)and if you do not go after other gods to your own harm,

³⁵ The Lord made a covenant with them and commanded them, ^(A)“You shall not fear other gods ^(B)or bow yourselves to them or serve them or sacrifice to them,

¹⁴ You shall not ^(A)go after other gods, ^(B)the gods of the peoples who are around you—

^9 (A)Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, ^(B)swear falsely, ^(C)make offerings to Baal, ^(D)and go after other gods that you have not known,

^22 (A)And Judah did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, and they ^(B)provoked him to jealousy with their sins that they committed, more than all that their fathers had done.

⁴ For when Solomon was old his wives turned away his heart after other gods, and ^(A)his heart was not wholly true to the Lord his God, ^(B)as was the heart of David his father. ⁵ For Solomon went after ^(C)Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and after ^(D)Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites. ⁶ So Solomon did what was evil in the sight of the Lord and did not wholly follow the Lord, as David his father had done. ⁷ Then Solomon built a high place for ^(E)Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for ^(F)Molech the abomination of the Ammonites, on the mountain east of Jerusalem. ⁸ And so he did for all his foreign wives, who made offerings and sacrificed to their gods.

The Lord Raises Adversaries

⁹ And the Lord was angry with Solomon, because ^(G)his heart had turned away from the Lord, the God of Israel, ^(H)who had appeared to him twice ¹⁰ and ^(I)had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not go after other gods. But he did not keep what the Lord commanded.