SEV Biblia, Chapter 11:5
Porque Salomón siguió a Astoret, diosa de los sidonios, y a Milcom, abominación de los amonitas.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 5. And Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians , etc.] Enticed by the Zidonian women, or woman, he had, ( 1 Kings 11:1). According to the Phoenician histories f285 , Solomon married a daughter of Hiram, king of Tyre and Zidon; so Clemens of Alexandria says f286 , that Hiram gave his daughter to Solomon; Ashtoreth is Astarte, the same with the Venus of the Greeks, so Suidas f287 ; and Lucian expressly says, the Sidonians had a temple, said by them to belong to Astarte, which he takes to be the moon; and both Venus and Juno signify the same planet; (see Gill on “ Judges 2:13”) and after Milcom the abomination of the Amnonites ; the same with Molech, ( 1 Kings 11:7). (See Gill on “ Leviticus 18:21”). (See Gill on “ Amos 1:13”). After this he was drawn by his Ammonitish wife, or wives, ( 1 Kings 11:1), though the Jewish writers think he did not worship these idols, but suffered his wives to do it, and connived at it, which was his sin; so Ben Gersom and Abarbinel.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1-8 - There is not a more melancholy and astonishing instance of huma depravity in the sacred Scriptures, than that here recorded. Solomo became a public worshipper of abominable idols! Probably he by degree gave way to pride and luxury, and thus lost his relish for true wisdom Nothing forms in itself a security against the deceitfulness an depravity of the human heart. Nor will old age cure the heart of an evil propensity. If our sinful passions are not crucified and mortifie by the grace of God, they never will die of themselves, but will las even when opportunities to gratify them are taken away. Let him tha thinks he stands, take heed lest he fall. We see how weak we are of ourselves, without the grace of God; let us therefore live in constan dependence on that grace. Let us watch and be sober: ours is dangerous warfare, and in an enemy's country, while our worst foes ar the traitors in our own hearts. (1Ki 11:9-13)
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