1 Kings 11 in plain modern English. New Ground English Translation.
King Solomon many women in addition to Pharaoh's daughter — Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, and Hittite women —
from nations that Yahweh had specifically told the Israelites about: "Don't intermarry with them, and don't let them intermarry with you — they will definitely toward their gods." But Solomon on to these women with deep passion.
He had seven hundred and three hundred and his pulled his heart away.
By the time Solomon was old, his wives had turned his heart toward other gods, and his heart was no longer to Yahweh his God the way his father David's heart had been.
Solomon the goddess of the Sidonians, and the of the Ammonites.
Solomon did what was in He did not fully follow Yahweh the way his father David had.
That's when Solomon built a on the hill east of Jerusalem for the disgusting idol of Moab, and for Milcom, the disgusting idol of the Ammonites.
He did the same for all his foreign wives, who and to their gods.
Yahweh with Solomon because his heart had turned away from Yahweh, the God of Israel, who had to —
and had specifically him about this very thing: not to follow other gods. But Solomon didn't keep what Yahweh had
So Yahweh said to Solomon, "Because you've done this — you haven't kept my or the I for you — I am going to the from you and give it to one of your servants.
But I won't do it during your lifetime, because of your father David. I'll rip it from your son's hand instead.
Even then, I won't rip away the whole kingdom. I'll give your son one tribe — for the sake of my and for the sake of Jerusalem, the I
Then Yahweh raised up an against Solomon — Hadad the Edomite, from the royal family of Edom.
Earlier, when David had been fighting in Edom, the army commander had gone up to bury the dead and had struck down every male in Edom.
Joab and all Israel had stayed there for six months, until they had cut down every male in Edom.
But Hadad, who was just a young boy at the time, escaped with some of his father's Edomite servants and headed for Egypt.
They set out from Midian and went to Paran. They took men from Paran with them and arrived in Egypt, where they came before Pharaoh king of Egypt. He gave Hadad a house, provided him with food, and gave him land.
Hadad found such with Pharaoh that he gave him his own wife's sister as a wife — the sister of Queen Tahpenes.
The sister of Tahpenes bore a son named Genubath. Tahpenes right there in Pharaoh's palace, and Genubath grew up in Pharaoh's household among Pharaoh's own sons.
When Hadad heard in Egypt that David had died and that Joab the army commander was also dead, he said to Pharaoh, "Let me go back to my own country."
"What are you lacking here with me," Pharaoh asked, "that you suddenly want to go back to your own country?" "Nothing," Hadad replied, "but please — just let me go."
God also raised up another against Solomon — Rezon son of Eliada, who had fled from his master Hadadezer king of Zobah.
He gathered men around him and became the leader of a after David's slaughter at Zobah. They went to Damascus, settled there, and he became king in Damascus.
He was Israel's enemy for the entire reign of Solomon, adding to the trouble Hadad caused. He ruled over and despised Israel.
Then there was Jeroboam son of Nebat, an Ephraimite from Zeredah. mother was a widow named Zeruah. He was one of Solomon's officials, and he the king.
Here's why he raised his hand against the king: Solomon was building the and closing the gap in the wall of his father David's city.
Now Jeroboam was a man of real ability. When Solomon saw how well the young man worked, he put him in charge of all the of the of
One day during that time, Jeroboam left Jerusalem and the Ahijah from Shiloh found him on the road. Ahijah was wearing a brand-new cloak, and the two of them were alone out in the open country.
Ahijah grabbed the new cloak he was wearing and it
Then he told Jeroboam, "Take ten pieces for yourself, because this is what Yahweh, the God of Israel, says: 'I am about to rip the kingdom out of Solomon's hand and give you ten tribes.
He will keep one tribe — for the sake of my servant David and for the sake of Jerusalem, the city I chose out of all the tribes of Israel.
This is because he me and down to Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of Moab, and Milcom the god of the Ammonites. He hasn't walked in my ways or done what's right in my eyes or kept my boundaries and my the way his father David did.
But I won't take the whole kingdom from his hand. I'll let him be ruler for the rest of his life — for the sake of my servant David, whom I chose, who kept my commands and my boundaries.
I will take the kingdom from his son's hand and give you ten tribes.
But to his son I'll give one tribe, so that my servant David will always have a before me in Jerusalem — the city I chose as the for my
As for you — I will take you, and you will rule over everything your heart desires. You will be king over Israel.
And if you listen to everything I command you, in my and do what's right in my eyes by keeping my boundaries and my commands — the way my servant David did — then I will be with you. I will build you a just as I built one for David, and I will give Israel to you.
I will David's descendants because of this — but not forever."
Solomon tried to kill Jeroboam. But Jeroboam fled to Egypt, to King of Egypt, and stayed there until Solomon died.
As for everything else Solomon did — everything he accomplished and the he showed — isn't it all written in the of Solomon?
Solomon ruled in Jerusalem over all Israel for
Then Solomon with and was buried in the city of father David. And son became king after him.