1 Kings 11:1-8
"11 Now King Solomon loved many foreign women, along with the daughter of Pharaoh: Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, and Hittite women,2 from the nations concerning which the Lord had said to the people of Israel, “You shall not enter into marriage with them, neither shall they with you, for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods.” Solomon clung to these in love. 3 He had 700 wives, who were princesses, and 300 concubines. And his wives turned away his heart. 4 For when Solomon was old his wives turned away his heart after other gods, and his heart was not wholly true to the Lord his God, as was the heart of David his father. 5 For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and after 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 Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for 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."
But now we come to the dark side of Solomon's story. And just as all that has gone before has testified to the blessedness of a life well-pleasing to God, and provided a picture of the blessings of the reign of Christ whom he foreshadowed, so now all that follows shows the inevitable fulfilment of the warnings given to the king about the disastrous consequences of disobedience. This does not in any wise invalidate what has been said in previous readings, nor is it any contradiction, but rather confirms the Biblical view of human nature that, when left to its own resources and bent on its own will and way, it invariably gravitates downwards. When we stray from obedience to God, we also remove ourselves from divine protection and become easy victims of the devil. This is what Solomon did. The first trace of his weakness with strange women may well be in the brief record in 3:1-3. Here, however, it has come into awful fruition, and wreaked terrible destruction in a life that once told so greatly for God. Again, the Spirit's warning comes to us in stark simplicity - resist beginnings, for sin when it is finished, bringeth forth death.