1 Kings 11

Now King Solomon loved many foreign women and the daughter of Pharaoh: Moabitesses, Ammonitesses, Edomitesses, Sidonianesses, Hittitesses,

from the nations {about} which God had said to the sons of Israel, “You must not enter into them, and they must not enter into you. Surely they will stretch out your heart after their gods.” Solomon clung to them in love. \*

And to him were 700 wives, princesses, and 300 concubines. And his wives stretched out his heart.

And it happened in the time of the old age of Solomon {that} his wives stretched out his heart after other gods. And his heart was not complete with God his God like the heart of David his father. \*

And Solomon went after Ashtoreth, the goddess of the Sidonians, and after Milcom, the abomination of the Ammonites.

And Solomon did evil in the eyes of God, and he was not full after God like David his father. \*

Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, on the hill that {is} on the face of Jerusalem, and for Molech, the abomination of the sons of Ammon.

And thus he did for all of his foreign wives burning incense and sacrificing to their gods. \*

And God became angry with Solomon, for his heart had stretched away from with God, the God of Israel, the one having appeared to him two times,

and he had commanded to him about this thing, not to go after other gods. But he did not keep what God had commanded. \*

And God said to Solomon, “Because this is with you, that you have not kept my covenant and my statutes that I commanded concerning you, tearing, I will tear the kingdom away from you, and I will give it to your servant.

However, I will not do it in your days, for the sake of David your father. From the hand of your son I will tear it away.

Only I will not tear away all of the kingdom. I will give one tribe to your son for the sake of David my servant and for the sake of Jerusalem, which I have chosen.” \*

And God raised up an adversary against Solomon, Hadad the Edomite. He {was} from the seed of the king in Edom.

Now it had happened, when David was in Edom, when Joab, the commander of the army, had gone up to bury the slain, that he had struck every male in Edom.

For Joab and all of Israel dwelled there six months until he had cut off every male in Edom.

But Adad fled, he and Edomite men from the servants of his father with him, to enter Egypt. And Hadad {was} a little boy. \*

And they arose from Midian and entered Paran. And they took men with them from Paran and came {to} Egypt, to Pharaoh, the king of Egypt. And he gave a house to him, and he ordered bread for him, and he gave land to him.

And Hadad found much favor in the eyes of Pharaoh. And he gave to him a wife, the sister of his wife, the sister of Tahpenes the queen. \*

And the sister of Tahpenes bore to him Genubath, his son, and Tahpenes weaned him in the midst of the house of Pharaoh. And Genubath was in the house of Pharaoh in the midst of the sons of Pharaoh.

And Hadad heard in Egypt that David had lain down with his fathers and that Joab, the commander of the army, had died. And Hadad said to Pharaoh, “Send me away, that I may go to my land.”

And Pharaoh said to him, “But what {are} you lacking with me, that behold you, seeking to go to your land?” And he said, “Nothing, but sending, may you send me away.” \*

And God raised up an adversary against him, Rezon, the son of Eliada, who had fled from Hadadezer, the king of Zobah, his master.

And he gathered men to himself, and he became the commander of a raiding band when David killed them. And they went {to} Damascus, and they dwelled in it and they reigned in Damascus.

And he was an adversary against Israel all of the days of Solomon, and the harm that Hadad {did}. And he loathed Israel, and he reigned over Aram. \*

And Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, an Ephrathite from Zeredah, and the name of his mother {was} Zeruah, a woman, a widow, {was} a servant of Solomon, and he raised a hand against the king.

Now this {was} the matter {by} which he raised a hand against the king. Solomon had built the Millo; he had closed up the breach of the City of David his father. \*

And the man Jeroboam {was} mighty of strength. And Solomon had seen the young man, that he was a doer of work, so he had appointed him over all of the forced labor of the house of Joseph.

And it happened at that time that Jeroboam went out from Jerusalem, and the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite found him in the road. And he was covering himself with a new cloak, and the two of them {were} by themselves in the field.

And Ahijah took hold of the new cloak that was upon him, and he tore it {into} 12 pieces. \*

And he said to Jeroboam, “Take for yourself ten pieces. For thus says God, the God of Israel, ‘Behold me, tearing the kingdom from the hand of Solomon, and I will give ten tribes to you.

But one tribe will be to him for the sake of my servant David and for the sake of Jerusalem, the city upon which I have chosen from all of the tribes of Israel.

For they have forsaken me, and they have bowed down to Ashtoreth, the goddess of the Sidonians, to Chemosh, the god of Moab, and to Milcom, the god of the sons of Ammon. And they do not walk in my ways, to do right in my eyes, or my statutes or my judgments, like David his father. \*

But I will not take all of the kingdom from his hand. Rather, I will put him as a leader all of the days of his life for the sake of David my servant, him whom I chose, who kept my commandments and my statutes.

But I will take the kingdom from the hand of his son, and I will give it to you, ten of the tribes.

But to his son I will give one tribe so that there may be a lamp for David my servant all of the days to my face in Jerusalem, the city that I have chosen for myself to put my name there. \*

And I will take you, and you will reign over all that your soul desires, and you will be king over Israel.

And it will be, if you hear all that I command you and you walk in my ways and you do right in my eyes, to keep my statutes and my commandments, just as David my servant did, then I will be with you and I will build for you an established house, just as I built for David, and I will give Israel to you.

And I will afflict the seed of David on account of this, only not all of the days.’” \*

And Solomon sought to kill Jeroboam. But Jeroboam arose and fled to Egypt, to Shishak, the king of Egypt. And he was in Egypt until the death of Solomon. \*

Now the rest of the matters of Solomon and all that he did and his wisdom, {are} they not written in the book of the matters of Solomon?

And the days that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all of Israel were 40 years.

And Solomon lay down with his fathers, and he was buried in the City of David, his father. And Rehoboam his son reigned in his place. \*