His heart was turned

So the Lord became angry with Solomon, because his heart had turned from the Lord God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice, and had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not go after other gods; but he did not keep what the Lord had commanded. Therefore the Lord said to Solomon, “Because you have done this, and have not kept My covenant and My statutes, which I have commanded you, I will surely tear the kingdom away from you and give it to your servant. – 1 Kings 11.9-11

Solomon, in all his mighty wisdom, had blown it. God appeared to him twice and commanded him as He told Solomon not to marry these foreign women with their false pagan gods. But Solomon could not contain himself. He had to have these hundreds of women as his wives and concubines. It looks like Solomon and his sexual desires overcame everything else.

And so his heart was turned away from God. There was not room in his heart to follow both God and these pagan women. It had to be one or the other.

It's terrible when sin grabs hold of our hearts. It happens when we don’t guard our hearts against the world, the flesh, and the devil. That ‘little niggling sin’ sets in and takes root and grows and grows until the next thing we know our hearts are pursuing that sin instead of pursing God like we once did. Serving our sin supplants serving our God and we wander in that terrible wilderness of defeat and despair and discouragement.

The solution? ‘Keep, or guard, your hearts with all diligence, for out of it are the issues of life.’ When our hearts get out of sort it is time to get things sorted before we have a spiritual heart attack which can do serious damage. If our hearts are turning from God or turning from Him now I is the time to treat the problem, repent, and turn back to Him.