Verse 5
And Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians ,.... Enticed by the Zidonian women, or woman, he had, 1 Kings 11:1 . According to the Phoenician histories F9 Apud Tatian. contr. Graecos, p. 171. , Solomon married a daughter of Hiram, king of Tyre and Zidon; so Clemens of Alexandria says F11 Stromat. l. 1. p. 325. , that Hiram gave his daughter to Solomon; Ashtoreth is Astarte, the same with the Venus of the Greeks, so Suidas F12 In voce Ασταρτη . ; and Lucian F13 De Dea Syria. 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.
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