Solomon Turns from the Lord

1 Now King Solomon loved ^xmany foreign women, along with the ^ydaughter of Pharaoh: Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, and Hittite women,

8 And so he did for all his foreign wives, who made offerings and sacrificed to their gods.

13 ^cHe also removed Maacah his mother from being queen mother because she had made an abominable image for Asherah. And Asa ^dcut down her image and burned it at the brook Kidron.

Athaliah Reigns in Judah

1 ^zNow when ^aAthaliah the mother of ^bAhaziah saw that her son ^cwas dead, she arose and destroyed all the royal family.