““The Deuteronomistic Historian credits all of Solomon’s extra-Yahwistic worship activities to the influence of his foreign wives, but this was likely a theological coping mechanism. Solomon was likely comfortable worshipping Chemosh and Molech alongside YHWH and his Asherah throughout his reign without thinking twice about it (1 Kgs. 11:7-8). Such syncretistic practices were probably common in Greater Israel during the 10th century. Chapter””
