and had commanded him concerning this thing The command is recorded in substance in 1 Kings 6:12 and 1 Kings 9:6. No allusion is made in either place to the sort of temptation which led Solomon into this sin.

but he kept notthat which the Lord commanded Instead of these words the LXX. gives -and his heart was not perfect with the Lord, as the heart of David his father": a repetition of a part of 1 Kings 11:4.

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