"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." — Solomon constructs *high places* (*bamot*) for *pagan deities*: *Chemosh* (*Kemosh*, the Moabite god), *Molech* (*Malkam*, the Ammonite god). The *location*—*east of Jerusalem*, possibly the *Mount of Olives*—makes the *idolatry visible* from the *temple*. The *juxtaposition* of *temple* and *pagan shrine* is theologically catastrophic. The *high places build by earlier judges are now constructed* by the *king himself*, legitimizing *idolatry* through *royal authority*.

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