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1 Kings 11

Solomon loves many foreign women from nations Israel had been warned not to join in idolatrous intermarriage. His wives turn his heart after other gods, and he builds high places for their worship. The LORD announces that most of the kingdom will be torn from Solomon’s son, though a tribe will remain for David’s sake. Adversaries arise, and Ahijah gives Jeroboam ten pieces of a torn garment as a sign of the coming division. Solomon dies after forty years, and Rehoboam succeeds him.

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Solomon loves many foreign women from nations Israel had been warned not to join in idolatrous intermarriage. His wives turn his heart after other gods, and he builds high places for their worship. The LORD announces that most of the kingdom will be torn from Solomon’s son, though a tribe will remain for David’s sake. Adversaries arise, and Ahijah gives Jeroboam ten pieces of a torn garment as a sign of the coming division. Solomon dies after forty years, and Rehoboam succeeds him.

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Verses 1–13Solomon’s foreign wives turn his heart after other godsVerses 14–22The LORD raises Hadad the Edomite as an adversaryVerses 23–25Rezon becomes another adversary to SolomonVerses 26–40Jeroboam rebels, and Ahijah tells him he will receive ten tribesVerses 41–43Solomon dies, and Rehoboam reigns in his place
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1But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the…2Of the nations concerning which the LORD said unto the…3And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred…4For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, that…5For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians,…6And Solomon did evil in the sight of the LORD,…7Then did Solomon build an high place for Chemosh, the…8And likewise did he for all his strange wives, which…9And the LORD was angry with Solomon, because his heart…10And had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should…11Wherefore the LORD said unto Solomon, Forasmuch as this is…12Notwithstanding in thy days I will not do it for…13Howbeit I will not rend away all the kingdom; but…14And the LORD stirred up an adversary unto Solomon, Hadad…15For it came to pass, when David was in Edom,…16(For six months did Joab remain there with all Israel,…17That Hadad fled, he and certain Edomites of his father's…18And they arose out of Midian, and came to Paran:…19And Hadad found great favour in the sight of Pharaoh,…20And the sister of Tahpenes bare him Genubath his son,…21And when Hadad heard in Egypt that David slept with…22Then Pharaoh said unto him, But what hast thou lacked…23And God stirred him up another adversary, Rezon the son…24And he gathered men unto him, and became captain over…25And he was an adversary to Israel all the days…26And Jeroboam the son of Nebat, an Ephrathite of Zereda,…27And this was the cause that he lifted up his…28And the man Jeroboam was a mighty man of valour:…29And it came to pass at that time when Jeroboam…30And Ahijah caught the new garment that was on him,…31And he said to Jeroboam, Take thee ten pieces: for…32(But he shall have one tribe for my servant David's…33Because that they have forsaken me, and have worshipped Ashtoreth…34Howbeit I will not take the whole kingdom out of…35But I will take the kingdom out of his son's…36And unto his son will I give one tribe, that…37And I will take thee, and thou shalt reign according…38And it shall be, if thou wilt hearken unto all…39And I will for this afflict the seed of David,…40Solomon sought therefore to kill Jeroboam. And Jeroboam arose, and…41And the rest of the acts of Solomon, and all…42And the time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all…43And Solomon slept with his fathers, and was buried in…