1 Kings 11:9 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

From the Lord God of Israel; from the express command and from the worship of God; not that he wholly neglected God, but because God esteems all the worship of idols (though it be not exclusive of, but conjoined with his own worship) to be a forsaking of and departing from God, and ofttimes so calls it. Which had appeared unto him, to wit, in an extraordinary and most gracious and obliging manner.

1 Kings 11:9

9 And the LORD was angry with Solomon, because his heart was turned from the LORD God of Israel, which had appeared unto him twice,