1 Kings 11:5
Ver. 5. And Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians,.... Enticed by the Zidonian women, or woman, he had, 1Ki 11:1. According to the Phoenician histories {i}, Solomon married a daughter of Hiram, king of Tyre and Zidon; so Clemens of Alexandria says {k}, that Hiram gave his daughter to Solomon; Ashtoreth is Astarte, the same with the Venus of the Greeks, so Suidas {l}; and Lucian {m} 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 "Jud 2:13"
and after Milcom the abomination of the Amnonites; the same with Molech, 1Ki 11:7. See Gill on "Le 18:21". See Gill on "Am 1:13". After this he was drawn by his Ammonitish wife, or wives, 1Ki 11:1, though the Jewish writers think he did not worship these idols, but suffered his wives to do it, and connived at it, which was his sin; so Ben Gersom and Abarbinel.
{i} Apud Tatian. contr. Graecos, p. 171. {k} Stromat. l. 1. p. 325. {l} In voce Astarth. {m} De Dea Syria.