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1 Kings 11 📜 📕 ↷
Solomon's Foreign Wives
1 AND king Salomon loved many women strangers, the daughter also of Pharao, and Moabites, & Ammonites, Idumeians, and Sidonians, & Hetheians:📜💬📚
2 of the nations, whereof our Lord said to the children of Israel: You shall not go in unto them, neither shall any of them come in unto yours: for they will most certainly turn away your hearts to follow their gods. To these therefore was Salomon coupled in most fervent love.📜💬📚
3 And he had wives as it were queens seven hundred, and concubines three hundred: and the women turned away his heart.📜💬📚
4 And when he was now old, his heart was depraved by women, that he followed strange gods: neither was his heart perfect with our Lord his God, as the heart of David his father.📜💬📚
5 But Salomon worshipped Astarthee the goddess of the Sidonians, and Moloch the idol of the Ammonites.📜💬📚
6 And Salomon did that which was not liked before our Lord, and he accomplished not to follow our Lord, as David his father.📜💬📚
7 Then built Salomon a temple to Chamos the idol of Moab, in the mount that is against Jerusalem, and to Moloch the idol of the children of Ammon.📜💬📚
8 And in this manner did he to all his wives that were strangers, which burnt frankincense, & immolated to their gods.📜💬📚
God's Anger against Solomon
9 Therefore our Lord was wrath with Salomon, because his mind was turned away from our Lord the God of Israel, who had appeared unto him the second time,📜💬📚
10 and had commanded him concerning this word, that he should not follow strange gods, & he kept not the things which our Lord commanded him.📜💬📚
11 Our Lord therefore said to Salomon: Because thou hast done this, and hast not kept my covenant, and my precepts, which I have commanded thee, breaking I will rent asunder thy Kingdom, and will give it to thy servant.📜💬📚
12 Nevertheless in thy days I will not do it because of David thy father: out of the hand of thy son I will rent it,📜💬📚
13 neither will I take away the whole Kingdom, but one tribe I will give to thy son for David my servant, and Jerusalem, which I have chosen.📜💬📚
Hadad's Return
14 And our Lord raised up an adversary to Salomon, Adad an Idumite of the king's seed, who was in Edom.📜💬📚
15 For when David was in Idumea, and Joab the general of the warfare was gone up to bury them that were slain, and had slain all male kind in Idumea,📜💬📚
16 for Joab tarried there six months, and all Israel, till he slew all male kind in Idumea.📜💬📚
17 Adad himself fled, & the men of Idumea of his father's servants with him, to go into AEgypt: and Adad was a little boy.📜💬📚
18 And when they rose out of Madian, they came into Pharan, and they took with them men of Pharan, and entered into AEgypt to Pharao the king of AEgypt: who gave him a house, and appointed him meats, and assigned him land.📜💬📚
19 And Adad found grace before Pharao exceedingly, in so much that he gave him to wife the german sister of his wife Taphnes the queen.📜💬📚
20 And the sister of Taphnes bare him a son Genubath, and Taphnes brought him up in the house of Pharao: & Genubath was dwelling at Pharao's house with his children.📜💬📚
21 And when Adad in AEgypt had heard, that David slept with his fathers, and that Joab the general of the warfare was dead, he said to Pharao: Dismiss me, that I may go into my country.📜💬📚
22 And Pharao said to him: For what lackest thou with me: that thou seekest to go into thine own country? But he answered: Nothing: yet I beseech thee that thou dismiss me.📜💬📚
Rezon's Hostility
23 God also raised up to him an adversary, Razon the son of Eliada, who had fled Adarezer the king of Soba his Lord:📜💬📚
24 and he gathered men against him, and he became the captain of thieves, when David killed them: and they went to Damascus, and dwelt there, and they made him king in Damascus,📜💬📚
25 and he was an adversary to Israel all the days of Salomon: and this is the evil of Adad, and hatred against Israel, and he reigned in Syria.📜💬📚
Jeroboam's Rebellion
26 Jeroboam also the son of Nabath, an Ephrathite of Sareda, the servant of Salomon, whose mother was called Serva, a woman widow, lifted up his hand against the king.📜💬📚
27 And this is the cause of his rebellion against him, because Salomon built Mello, and filled up the breach of the city of David his father.📜💬📚
28 And Jeroboam was a strong man and mighty: and Salomon seeing the young man of a good wit and industrious, had made him chief over the tributes of all the house of Joseph.📜💬📚
29 It came to pass therefore at that time, that Jeroboam went out of Jerusalem, and the Prophet Ahias the Silonite found him in the way, covered with a new cloak: and they two only were in the field.📜💬📚
30 And Ahias taking his new cloak, wherewith he was covered, cut it into twelve parts.📜💬📚
31 And he said to Jeroboam: Take unto thee ten pieces: for thus saith our Lord the God of Israel: Behold I will rent the Kingdom out of the hand of Salomon, and will give thee ten tribes.📜💬📚
32 But one tribe shall remain to him for my servant David, and Jerusalem the city, which I have chosen of all the tribes of Israel:📜💬📚
33 because he hath forsaken me, and hath adored Astarthee the goddess of the Sidonians, and Chamos the god of Moab, and Moloch the god of the children of Ammon: and hath not walked in my ways, to do justice before me, and my precepts, and judgments, as David his father.📜💬📚
34 Neither will I take away all the Kingdom out of his hand, but I will make him Prince all the days of his life, for David my servant, whom I chose, who kept my commandments & my precepts.📜💬📚
35 But I will take away the Kingdom out of his son's hand, and will give thee ten tribes:📜💬📚
36 and to his son I will give one tribe, that there may remain a lamp to David my servant at all times before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen, that my name might be there.📜💬📚
37 And thee will I take, and thou shalt reign over all things, that thy soul desireth, and thou shalt be king over Israel.📜💬📚
38 If therefore thou wilt hear all things, that I shall command thee, and wilt walk in my ways, and do that which is right before me, keeping my commandments and my precepts, as David my servant did: I will be with thee, and will build thee a faithful house, as I built a house to David, and I will deliver Israel to thee:📜💬📚
39 and I will afflict the seed of David upon this, but yet not always.📜💬📚
40 Salomon therefore would have killed Jeroboam: who arose, and fled into AEgypt to Sesac the king of AEgypt, and was in AEgypt until the death of Salomon.📜💬📚
Death of Solomon
41 And the rest of the words of Salomon, and all that he did, and his wisdom: behold they are all written in the Book of the words of the days of Salomon.📜💬📚
42 And the days that Salomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel, are forty years.📜💬📚
43 And Salomon slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David his father, & Roboam his son reigned for him.📜💬📚
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