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Solomon Turns Away from God

11Solomon loved many foreign women. Besides the daughter of the king of Egypt he married Hittite women and women from Moab, Ammon, Edom, and Sidon.H4428H8010H157H7227H5237H802H1323H6547H4125H5984H130H6722H2850
2He married them even though the LORD had commanded the Israelites not to intermarry with these people, because they would cause the Israelites to give their loyalty to other gods.H1471H3068H559H1121H3478H935H935H403H5186H3824H310H430H8010H1692H157
3Solomon married seven hundred princesses and also had three hundred concubines. They made him turn away from God,H7651H3967H802H8282H7969H3967H6370H802H5186H3820
4and by the time he was old they had led him into the worship of foreign gods. He was not faithful to the LORD his God, as his father David had been.H6256H8010H2209H802H5186H3824H310H312H430H3824H8003H3068H430H3824H1732H1
5He worshiped Astarte, the goddess of Sidon, and Molech, the disgusting god of Ammon.H8010H3212H310H6253H430H6722H310H4445H8251H5984
6He sinned against the LORD and was not true to him as his father David had been.H8010H6213H7451H5869H3068H4390H310H3068H1732H1
7On the mountain east of Jerusalem he built a place to worship Chemosh, the disgusting god of Moab, and a place to worship Molech, the disgusting god of Ammon.H8010H1129H1116H3645H8251H4124H2022H6440H3389H4432H8251H1121H5983
8He also built places of worship where all his foreign wives could burn incense and offer sacrifices to their own gods.H6213H5237H802H6999H2076H430
9Even though the LORD, the God of Israel, had appeared to Solomon twice and had commanded him not to worship foreign gods,H3068H599H8010H3824H5186H3068H430H3478H7200H6471
10Solomon did not obey the LORD but turned away from him. So the LORD was angry with SolomonH6680H1697H3212H310H312H430H8104H3068H6680
11and said to him, "Because you have deliberately broken your covenant with me and disobeyed my commands, I promise that I will take the kingdom away from you and give it to one of your officials.H3068H559H8010H8104H1285H2708H6680H7167H7167H4467H5414H5650
12However, for the sake of your father David I will not do this in your lifetime, but during the reign of your son.H3117H6213H1732H1H7167H3027H1121
13And I will not take the whole kingdom away from him; instead, I will leave him one tribe for the sake of my servant David and for the sake of Jerusalem, the city I have made my own."H7535H7167H4467H5414H259H7626H1121H1732H5650H3389H977

Solomon’s Enemies

14So the LORD caused Hadad, of the royal family of Edom, to turn against Solomon.H3068H6965H7854H8010H1908H130H4428H2233H123
15Long before this, when David had conquered Edom, Joab the commander of his army had gone there to bury the dead.H1732H123H3097H8269H6635H5927H6912H2491H5221H2145H123
16He and his men remained in Edom six months, and during that time they killed every male in EdomH8337H2320H3097H3427H3478H3772H2145H123
17except Hadad and some of his father's Edomite servants, who escaped to Egypt. (At that time Hadad was just a child.)H111H1272H582H130H1H5650H935H4714H1908H6996H5288
18They left Midian and went to Paran, where some other men joined them. Then they traveled to Egypt and went to the king, who gave Hadad some land and a house and provided him with food.H6965H4080H935H6290H3947H582H6290H935H4714H6547H4428H4714H5414H1004H559H3899H5414H776
19Hadad won the friendship of the king, and the king gave his sister-in-law, the sister of Queen Tahpenes, to Hadad in marriage.H1908H4672H3966H2580H5869H6547H5414H802H269H802H269H8472H1377
20She bore him a son, Genubath, who was raised by the queen in the palace, where he lived with the king's sons.H269H8472H3205H1592H1121H8472H1580H8432H6547H1004H1592H6547H1004H8432H1121H6547
21When the news reached Hadad in Egypt that David had died and that Joab the commander of the army was dead, Hadad said to the king, "Let me go back to my own country."H1908H8085H4714H1732H7901H1H3097H8269H6635H4191H1908H559H6547H7971H3212H776
22"Why?" the king asked. "Have I failed to give you something? Is that why you want to go back home?" "Just let me go," Hadad answered the king. And he went back to his country. As king of Edom, Hadad was an evil, bitter enemy of Israel.H6547H559H2638H1245H3212H776H559H7971H7971
23God also caused Rezon son of Eliada to turn against Solomon. Rezon had fled from his master, King Hadadezer of Zobah,H430H6965H7854H7331H1121H450H1272H113H1909H4428H6678
24and had become the leader of a gang of outlaws. (This happened after David had defeated Hadadezer and had slaughtered his Syrian allies.) Rezon and his gang went and lived in Damascus, where his followers made him king of Syria.H6908H582H8269H1416H1732H2026H3212H1834H3427H4427H1834
25He was an enemy of Israel during the lifetime of Solomon.H7854H3478H3117H8010H7451H1908H6973H3478H4427H758

God’s Promise to Jeroboam

26Another man who turned against King Solomon was one of his officials, Jeroboam son of Nebat, from Zeredah in Ephraim. His mother was a widow named Zeruah.H3379H1121H5028H673H6868H8010H5650H517H8034H6871H490H802H7311H3027H4428
27This is the story of the revolt. Solomon was filling in the land on the east side of Jerusalem and repairing the city walls.H1697H7311H3027H4428H8010H1129H4407H5462H6556H5892H1732H1
28Jeroboam was an able young man, and when Solomon noticed how hard he worked, he put him in charge of all the forced labor in the territory of the tribes of Manasseh and Ephraim.H376H3379H1368H2428H8010H7200H5288H6213H4399H6485H5447H1004H3130
29One day, as Jeroboam was traveling from Jerusalem, the prophet Ahijah from Shiloh met him alone on the road in the open country.H6256H3379H3318H3389H5030H281H7888H4672H1870H3680H2319H8008H8147H7704
30Ahijah took off the new robe he was wearing, tore it into twelve pieces,H281H8610H2319H8008H7167H8147H6240H7168
31and said to Jeroboam, "Take ten pieces for yourself, because the LORD, the God of Israel, says to you, 'I am going to take the kingdom away from Solomon, and I will give you ten tribes.H559H3379H3947H6235H7168H559H3068H430H3478H7167H4467H3027H8010H5414H6235H7626
32Solomon will keep one tribe for the sake of my servant David and for the sake of Jerusalem, the city I have chosen to be my own from the whole land of Israel.H259H7626H5650H1732H3389H5892H977H7626H3478
33I am going to do this because Solomon has rejected me and has worshiped foreign gods: Astarte, the goddess of Sidon; Chemosh, the god of Moab; and Molech, the god of Ammon. Solomon has disobeyed me; he has done wrong and has not kept my laws and commands as his father David did.H5800H7812H6253H430H6722H3645H430H4124H4445H430H1121H5983H1980H1870H6213H3477H5869H2708H4941H1732H1
34But I will not take the whole kingdom away from Solomon, and I will keep him in power as long as he lives. This I will do for the sake of my servant David, whom I chose and who obeyed my laws and commands.H3947H4467H3027H7896H5387H3117H2416H1732H5650H977H8104H4687H2708
35I will take the kingdom away from Solomon's son and will give you ten tribes,H3947H4410H1121H3027H5414H6235H7626
36but I will let Solomon's son keep one tribe, so that I will always have a descendant of my servant David ruling in Jerusalem, the city I have chosen as the place where I am worshiped.H1121H5414H259H7626H1732H5650H5216H3117H6440H3389H5892H977H7760H8034
37Jeroboam, I will make you king of Israel, and you will rule over all the territory that you want.H3947H4427H5315H183H4428H3478
38If you obey me completely, live by my laws, and win my approval by doing what I command, as my servant David did, I will always be with you. I will make you king of Israel and will make sure that your descendants rule after you, just as I have done for David.H8085H6680H1980H1870H6213H3477H5869H8104H2708H4687H1732H5650H6213H1129H539H1004H1129H1732H5414H3478
39Because of Solomon's sin I will punish the descendants of David, but not for all time.' "H6031H2233H1732H3117
40And so Solomon tried to kill Jeroboam, but he escaped to King Shishak of Egypt and stayed there until Solomon's death.H8010H1245H4191H3379H3379H6965H1272H4714H7895H4428H4714H4714H4194H8010

The Death of Solomon

41Everything else that Solomon did, his career, and his wisdom, are all recorded in The History of Solomon.H3499H1697H8010H6213H2451H3789H5612H1697H8010
42He was king in Jerusalem over all Israel for forty years.H3117H8010H4427H3389H3478H705H8141
43He died and was buried in David's City, and his son Rehoboam succeeded him as king.H8010H7901H1H6912H5892H1732H1H7346H1121H4427


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