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for they will surely incline your heart to follow their gods”; Solomon clung to these in love. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">3</span>Among his wives were seven hundred princesses and three hundred concubines; and his wives turned away his heart. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">4</span>For when Solomon was old, his wives turned away his heart after other gods; and his heart was not true to the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> his God, as was the heart of his father David. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">5</span>For Solomon followed Astarte the goddess of the Sidonians, and Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>So Solomon did what was evil in the sight of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>, and did not completely follow the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>, as his father David had done. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for Molech the abomination of the Ammonites, on the mountain east of Jerusalem. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>He did the same for all his foreign wives, who offered incense and sacrificed to their gods.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>Then the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> was angry with Solomon, because his heart had turned away from the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>and had commanded him concerning this matter, that he should not follow other gods; but he did not observe what the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> commanded. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>Therefore the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> said to Solomon, “Since this has been your mind and you have not kept my covenant and my statutes that I have commanded you, I will surely tear the kingdom from you and give it to your servant. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>Yet for the sake of your father David I will not do it in your lifetime; I will tear it out of the hand of your son. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>I will not, however, tear away the entire kingdom; I will give one tribe to your son, for the sake of my servant David and for the sake of Jerusalem, which I have chosen.”</span></p> <h3><span id="en" class="text">Adversaries of Solomon</span></h3><p><span class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>Then the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> raised up an adversary against Solomon, Hadad the Edomite; he was of the royal house in Edom. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>For when David was in Edom, and Joab the commander of the army went up to bury the dead, he killed every male in Edom </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">16</span>(for Joab and all Israel remained there six months, until he had eliminated every male in Edom); </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">17</span>but Hadad fled to Egypt with some Edomites who were servants of his father. He was a young boy at that time. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">18</span>They set out from Midian and came to Paran; they took people with them from Paran and came to Egypt, to Pharaoh king of Egypt, who gave him a house, assigned him an allowance of food, and gave him land. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">19</span>Hadad found great favor in the sight of Pharaoh, so that he gave him his sister-in-law for a wife, the sister of Queen Tahpenes. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">20</span>The sister of Tahpenes gave birth by him to his son Genubath, whom Tahpenes weaned in Pharaoh’s house; Genubath was in Pharaoh’s house among the children of Pharaoh. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">21</span>When Hadad heard in Egypt that David slept with his ancestors and that Joab the commander of the army was dead, Hadad said to Pharaoh, “Let me depart, that I may go to my own country.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">22</span>But Pharaoh said to him, “What do you lack with me that you now seek to go to your own country?” And he said, “No, do let me go.”</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">23</span>God raised up another adversary against Solomon,<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-9132a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote a">a</a>]</span> Rezon son of Eliada, who had fled from his master, King Hadadezer of Zobah. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">24</span>He gathered followers around him and became leader of a marauding band, after the slaughter by David; they went to Damascus, settled there, and made him king in Damascus. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">25</span>He was an adversary of Israel all the days of Solomon, making trouble as Hadad did; he despised Israel and reigned over Aram.</span></p> <h3><span id="en" class="text">Jeroboam’s Rebellion</span></h3><p><span class="text"><span class="versenum">26</span>Jeroboam son of Nebat, an Ephraimite of Zeredah, a servant of Solomon, whose mother’s name was Zeruah, a widow, rebelled against the king. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">27</span>The following was the reason he rebelled against the king. Solomon built the Millo, and closed up the gap in the wall<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-9136b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote b">b</a>]</span> of the city of his father David. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">28</span>The man Jeroboam was very able, and when Solomon saw that the young man was industrious he gave him charge over all the forced labor of the house of Joseph. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">29</span>About that time, when Jeroboam was leaving Jerusalem, the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite found him on the road. Ahijah had clothed himself with a new garment. The two of them were alone in the open country </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">30</span>when Ahijah laid hold of the new garment he was wearing and tore it into twelve pieces. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">31</span>He then said to Jeroboam: Take for yourself ten pieces; for thus says the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>, the God of Israel, “See, I am about to tear the kingdom from the hand of Solomon, and will give you ten tribes. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">32</span>One tribe will remain his, for the sake of my servant David and for the sake of Jerusalem, the city that I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">33</span>This is because he has<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-9142c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote c">c</a>]</span> forsaken me, worshiped Astarte the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of Moab, and Milcom the god of the Ammonites, and has<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-9142d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote d">d</a>]</span> not walked in my ways, doing what is right in my sight and keeping my statutes and my ordinances, as his father David did. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">34</span>Nevertheless I will not take the whole kingdom away from him but will make him ruler all the days of his life, for the sake of my servant David whom I chose and who did keep my commandments and my statutes; </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">35</span>but I will take the kingdom away from his son and give it to you—that is, the ten tribes. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">36</span>Yet to his son I will give one tribe, so that my servant David may always have a lamp before me in Jerusalem, the city where I have chosen to put my name. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">37</span>I will take you, and you shall reign over all that your soul desires; you shall be king over Israel. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">38</span>If you will listen to all that I command you, walk in my ways, and do what is right in my sight by keeping my statutes and my commandments, as David my servant did, I will be with you, and will build you an enduring house, as I built for David, and I will give Israel to you. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">39</span>For this reason I will punish the descendants of David, but not forever.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">40</span>Solomon sought therefore to kill Jeroboam; but Jeroboam promptly fled to Egypt, to King Shishak of Egypt, and remained in Egypt until the death of Solomon.</span></p> <h3><span id="en" class="text">Death of Solomon</span></h3><p><span class="text"><span class="versenum">41</span>Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, all that he did as well as his wisdom, are they not written in the Book of the Acts of Solomon? </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">42</span>The time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel was forty years. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">43</span>Solomon slept with his ancestors and was buried in the city of his father David; and his son Rehoboam succeeded him.</span></p> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to 1 Kings 11:23">1 Kings 11:23</a> <span class='footnote-text'> Heb <i>him</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to 1 Kings 11:27">1 Kings 11:27</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Heb lacks <i>in the wall</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to 1 Kings 11:33">1 Kings 11:33</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Gk Syr Vg: Heb <i>they have</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to 1 Kings 11:33">1 Kings 11:33</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Gk Syr Vg: Heb <i>they have</i></span></li></ol></div> </div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. 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