1 Kings 11:7–8 presents us with the evidence of Solomon’s evil. These verses reiterate Solomon’s idolatry, but they add something to it from the previous verses. That addition is the public nature of the idolatry. It was not simply that Solomon provided, in the residences of the foreign wives, places for shrines to offer private worship. Instead, he built pagan temples for all the foreign gods of his wives. The writer specifically mentions Chemosh, the Moabite idol, and Molech, the Ammonite deity. False worship in private serves as a danger to the worshipper, but false worship in public becomes a danger to the whole community, for it invites others to participate in it and implies that there is nothing wrong involved.
7 Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for Molech the abomination of the Ammonites, on the mountain east of Jerusalem.