1 Kings 11:5-7

1 Kin. 11:5-7. It does not appear that Solomon did himself worship these strange gods. But what his wives persuaded him to, was to build high places for them to worship their gods in: he probably went after other gods only as he honored them so far as to build places for their public worship in the land of Israel, wherein his wives and their attendants might worship them. For it is said in verse 8 he did this "for his wives," etc. He might possibly think it but reasonable that his wives should be allowed the exercise of their own religion and the worship of their own gods, and might think it hard, seeing he had brought them out of their own country, to deny them high places and altars at which they might worship them in his country.

1 Kin. 13:31-32