Solomon

Also known as: that uxorious king / the wisest heart of Solomon · Family: Israel · Role: king · First appears: Book 1

Life events

Moloch seduces Solomon into building a rival temple and establishing idolatrous worship.(Book1 · 📍 Hinnom)
- With: Moloch
- “Nor content with such Audacious neighbourhood, the wisest heart Of Solomon he led by fraud to build His temple right against the temple of God On that opprobrious hill, and made his grove The pleasant valley of Hinnom, Tophet thence And black Gehenna called, the type of Hell.”

tempter: Moloch “Nor content with such Audacious neighbourhood, the wisest heart Of Solomon he led by fraud to build His temple right against the temple of God”
tempter: Astoreth “In Sion also not unsung, where stood Her temple on th’ offensive mountain, built By that uxorious king whose heart, though large, Beguiled by fair idolatresses, fell To idols foul.”
deity: Moloch “His temple right against the temple of God on that opprobrious hill, and made his grove The pleasant valley of Hinnom”
deity: Astoreth “In Sion also not unsung, where stood Her temple on th’ offensive mountain, built By that uxorious king whose heart, though large, Beguiled by fair idolatresses, fell To idols foul.”

Extracted from the original text of Paradise Lost. Made with Rho MD.