옳고 그름을 분별하는 지혜의 대명사로 불리던 솔로몬. 그는 부인과 첩을 무려 1,000명을 거느린다. 나이가 들며 모근 것이 편해지자, 그의 이방 부인들은 솔로몬으로 하여금 이방신들을 숭배하는 것을 용인하게 만든다.
모든 것이 풍성했던 솔로몬은 분별력을 잃고, 그가 죽은 후 이스라엘은 분열한다.
“He had seven hundred wives of royal birth and three hundred concubines, and his wives led him astray. As Solomon grew old, his wives turned his heart after other gods, and his heart was not fully devoted to the Lord his God, as the heart of David his father had been. He followed Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and Molek the detestable god of the Ammonites. So Solomon did evil in the eyes of the Lord; he did not follow the Lord completely, as David his father had done.”
1 Kings 11:3-6 NIV
https://www.bible.com/111/1ki.11.3-6.niv