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1 Kings 11:12 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" Nevertheless, I will not do it in your days, for David your father’s sake; but I will tear it out of your son’s hand. "

1 Kings 11:12

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10 and had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not go after other gods; but he didn’t keep that which the LORD commanded.

11 Therefore the LORD said to Solomon, “Because this is done by you, and you have not kept my covenant and my statutes, which I have commanded you, I will surely tear the kingdom from you, and will give it to your servant.

12 Nevertheless, I will not do it in your days, for David your father’s sake; but I will tear it out of your son’s hand.

13 However, I will not tear away all the kingdom; but I will give one tribe to your son, for David my servant’s sake, and for Jerusalem’s sake which I have chosen.”

14 The LORD raised up an adversary to Solomon: Hadad the Edomite. He was one of the king’s offspring in Edom.

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1 Kings 11:1

"Now King Solomon loved many foreign women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh: women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites,"

1 Kings 11:2

"of the nations concerning which the LORD said to the children of Israel, “You shall not go among them, neither shall they come among you, for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods.” Solomon joined to these in love."

1 Kings 11:3

"He had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines. His wives turned his heart away."

1 Kings 11:4

"When Solomon was old, his wives turned away his heart after other gods; and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God, as the heart of David his father was."

1 Kings 11:5

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

1 Kings 11:6

"Solomon did that which was evil in the LORD’s sight, and didn’t go fully after the LORD, as David his father did."

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