John Gill's Bible Commentary Ver. 5. And Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians , etc.] Enticed by the Zidonian women, or woman, he had, ( 1 Kings 11:1). According to the Phoenician histories f285 , Solomon married a daughter of Hiram, king of Tyre and Zidon; so Clemens of Alexandria says f286 , that Hiram gave his daughter to Solomon; Ashtoreth is Astarte, the same with the Venus of the Greeks, so Suidas f287 ; and Lucian 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
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