Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, on the mountain that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech the abomination of the children of Ammon.

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  • WEB World English Bible

    Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, on the mountain that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech the abomination of the children of Ammon.

  • KJV King James Version

    Then did Solomon build an high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, in the hill that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the abomination of the children of Ammon.

  • JPS JPS Tanakh (1917)

    Then did Solomon build a high place for Chemosh the detestation of Moab, in the mount that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech the detestation of the children of Ammon.

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Cross-references (26)

Passages linked to 1 Kings 11:7 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.

  • Numbers 21:29 Woe to you, Moab! You are undone, people of Chemosh! He has given his sons as fugitives, and his daughters into captivity, to Sihon king of the Amorites.
  • Judges 11:24 Won’t you possess that which Chemosh your god gives you to possess? So whoever Yahweh our God has dispossessed from before us, them will we possess.
  • Acts 7:43 You took up the tabernacle of Moloch, the star of your god Rephan, the figures which you made to worship. I will carry you away beyond Babylon.’
  • Genesis 33:2 He put the servants and their children in front, Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph at the rear.
  • Leviticus 20:2-5 “Moreover, you shall tell the children of Israel, ‘Anyone of the children of Israel, or of the strangers who live as foreigners in Israel, who gives any of his offspring to Molech shall surely be put to death. The people of the land shall stone that person with stones. I also will set my face against that person, and will cut him off from among his people, because he has given of his offspring to Molech, to defile my sanctuary, and to profane my holy name. If the people of the land all hide their eyes from that person when he gives of his offspring to Molech, and don’t put him to death, then I will set my face against that man and against his family, and will cut him off, and all who play the prostitute after him to play the prostitute with Molech, from among their people.
  • Leviticus 26:30 I will destroy your high places, and cut down your incense altars, and cast your dead bodies upon the bodies of your idols; and my soul will abhor you.
  • Numbers 33:52 then you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, destroy all their stone idols, destroy all their molten images, and demolish all their high places.
  • Deuteronomy 13:14 then you shall inquire, investigate, and ask diligently. Behold, if it is true, and the thing certain, that such abomination was done among you,
  • Deuteronomy 17:3-4 and has gone and served other gods and worshiped them, or the sun, or the moon, or any of the stars of the sky, which I have not commanded, and you are told, and you have heard of it, then you shall inquire diligently. Behold, if it is true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is done in Israel,
  • Deuteronomy 27:15 ‘Cursed is the man who makes an engraved or molten image, an abomination to Yahweh, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and sets it up in secret.’ All the people shall answer and say, ‘Amen.’
  • 2 Samuel 15:30 David went up by the ascent of the Mount of Olives, and wept as he went up; and he had his head covered, and went barefoot. All the people who were with him each covered his head, and they went up, weeping as they went up.
  • 2 Kings 21:2-3 He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, after the abominations of the nations whom Yahweh cast out before the children of Israel. For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he raised up altars for Baal, and made an Asherah, as Ahab king of Israel did, and worshiped all the army of the sky, and served them.
  • 2 Kings 23:10 He defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the children of Hinnom, that no man might make his son or his daughter to pass through the fire to Molech.
  • 2 Kings 23:13-14 The king defiled the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mountain of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon. He broke in pieces the pillars, cut down the Asherah poles, and filled their places with men’s bones.
  • Psalms 78:58 For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their engraved images.
  • Isaiah 44:19 No one thinks, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, “I have burned part of it in the fire. Yes, I have also baked bread on its coals. I have roasted meat and eaten it. Shall I make the rest of it into an abomination? Shall I bow down to a tree trunk?”
  • Jeremiah 48:13 Moab will be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel, their confidence.
  • Ezekiel 18:12 has wronged the poor and needy, has taken by robbery, has not restored the pledge, and has lifted up his eyes to the idols, has committed abomination,
  • Ezekiel 20:28-29 For when I had brought them into the land which I swore to give to them, then they saw every high hill, and every thick tree, and they offered there their sacrifices, and there they presented the provocation of their offering. There they also made their pleasant aroma, and there they poured out their drink offerings. Then I said to them, ‘What does the high place where you go mean?’ So its name is called Bamah to this day.” ’
  • Daniel 11:31 “Forces will stand on his part, and they will profane the sanctuary, even the fortress, and will take away the continual burnt offering. Then they will set up the abomination that makes desolate.
  • Daniel 12:11 “From the time that the continual burnt offering is taken away, and the abomination that makes desolate set up, there will be one thousand two hundred ninety days.
  • Zechariah 14:4 His feet will stand in that day on the Mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east; and the Mount of Olives will be split in two, from east to west, making a very great valley. Half of the mountain will move toward the north, and half of it toward the south.
  • Matthew 26:30 When they had sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.
  • Acts 1:9 When he had said these things, as they were looking, he was taken up, and a cloud received him out of their sight.
  • Acts 1:12 Then they returned to Jerusalem from the mountain called Olivet, which is near Jerusalem, a Sabbath day’s journey away.
  • Revelation 17:4-5 The woman was dressed in purple and scarlet, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of the sexual immorality of the earth. And on her forehead a name was written, “MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF THE PROSTITUTES AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.”

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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Thus the Scripture termeth whatsoever man doth reverence and…

Thus the Scripture termeth whatsoever man doth reverence and serve as God.

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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 1Ki 11:7 Then did Solomon build an high place…
Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Then did Solomon build, i. e. suffer to be…
John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Then did Solomon build an high place for Chemosh,…
John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain An high place - That is, an altar upon…
Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 7. The hill that is before Jerusalem] This…
Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain Chemosh (Num 21:29 note), seems to have been widely…
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Chamos. Bacchus or Priapus, called Greek: Komos, by the…
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 7. Chemosh — The national god of the Moabites;…
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 7. a high place] That ‘high places’ were not…
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (7) On the hill that is before Jerusalem.—evidently on…
The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Then did Solomon build a high place (see on…
The Biblical Illustrator 1887 · Public Domain Then did Solomon build an high place for Chemosh.
unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 Chemosh ... Molech
Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 11:7 The Moabite god Chemosh is mentioned on the…

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