What terrible act of child sacrifice did Solomon commit?
Solomon, despite being a righteous and godly man earlier, became guilty by the end of his life of offering little Jewish babies to the fires of the god of Moloch. This child sacrifice shows how far he turned through foreign women and their gods.
Les explains that Solomon was a righteous, godly man to almost the extreme, and God honored him when the Shekinah glory came into the temple he dedicated. But by the end of his life, Solomon followed other women and their gods to the extreme. He was guilty of offering little Jewish babies to the fires of the god of Moloch. Les uses this as a warning that the average Israelite faced that same kind of temptation, and it is no different for us today. He also notes that idols are not only cultural statues but can include the idol of materialism, things that can become an idol just as quickly as a wooden or stone image.