# The Cave of Treasures, chapter 57: The Apostasy of Solomon

Source: https://enocharchive.com/books/the-cave-of-treasures/57 (Enoch Archive, public-domain translation).

**57:1** And Solomon waxed exceedingly great. And the food [provided for his table every day] consisted of forty oxen, one hundred head of sheep, thirty measures of fine flour, sixty measures of wheat, and three hundred measures of wine; and besides all this, stags, and gazelle, and wild antelopes, and other creatures of the desert.

**57:2** And he became froward and transgressed the Law, and hearkened not to the commands of his father, and he took to wife one thousand women from all the peoples whom God hated. Andin the time of his old age he gave himself up to women, and he let them play with him, and he hearkened to their words, and did their will.

**57:3** And he denied the God of David, his father. And he builded altars to devils, and offered up sacrifices to idols and graven images, and he worshipped the work of the hands; and God turned away His face from him and he died. And he reigned in Jerusalem forty-six years.

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