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Now king Solomon loved many foreign women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh,
women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites;
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of the nations concerning which YHWH 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 clave to these in love.
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And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines; and his
wives turned away his heart.
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For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his heart after
other gods; and his heart was not perfect with YHWH his God, as was the heart of David
his father.
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For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and after Milcom the
abomination of the Ammonites.
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And Solomon did that which was evil in the sight of YHWH, and went not fully after
YHWH, as did David his father.
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Then did Solomon build a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, in the mount
that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech the abomination of the children of Ammon.
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And so did he for all his foreign wives, who burnt incense and sacrificed to their
gods.
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And YHWH was angry with Solomon, because his heart was turned away from YHWH, the
God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice,
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and had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not go after other gods:
but he kept not that which YHWH commanded.
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Wherefore YHWH said to Solomon, Seeing that as this is done of you, and you have not
kept my covenant and my statutes, which I have commanded you, I will surely rend the
kingdom from you, and will give it to your servant.
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Notwithstanding in your days I will not do it, for David your father`s sake: but I
will rend it out of the hand of your son.
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Nevertheless I will not rend 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.
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And YHWH raised up an adversary to Solomon, Hadad the Edomite: he was of the king`s
seed in Edom.
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For it came to pass, when David was in Edom, and Joab the captain of the host was
gone up to bury the slain, and had smitten every male in Edom
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(for Joab and all Israel remained there six months, until he had cut off every male
in Edom);
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that Hadad fled, he and certain Edomites of his father`s servants with him, to go
into Egypt, Hadad being yet a little child.
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And they arose out of Midian, and came to Paran; and they took men with them out of
Paran, and they came to Egypt, to Pharaoh king of Egypt, who gave him a house, and
appointed him victuals, and gave him land.
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And Hadad found great favor in the sight of Pharaoh, so that he gave him to wife the
sister of his own wife, the sister of Tahpenes the queen.
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And the sister of Tahpenes bare him Genubath his son, whom Tahpenes weaned in Pharaoh`s
house; and Genubath was in Pharaoh`s house among the sons of Pharaoh.
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And when Hadad heard in Egypt that David slept with his fathers, and that Joab the
captain of the host was dead, Hadad said to Pharaoh, Let me depart, that I may go
to mine own country.
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Then Pharaoh said to him, But what have you lacked with me, that, behold, you seek
to go to your own country? And he answered, Nothing: nevertheless only let me depart.
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And God raised up [another] adversary to him, Rezon the son of Eliada, who had fled
from his lord Hadadezer king of Zobah.
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And he gathered men to him, and became captain over a troop, when David slew them
[of Zobah]: and they went to Damascus, and dwelt therein, and reigned in Damascus.
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And he was an adversary to Israel all the days of Solomon, besides the mischief that
Hadad [did]: and he abhorred Israel, and reigned over Syria.
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And Jeroboam the son of Nebat, an Ephraimite of Zeredah, a servant of Solomon, whose
mother`s name was Zeruah, a widow, he also lifted up his hand against the king.
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And this was the reason why he lifted up his hand against the king: Solomon built
Millo, and repaired the breach of the city of David his father.
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And the man Jeroboam was a mighty man of valor; and Solomon saw the young man that
he was industrious, and he gave him charge over all the labor of the house of Joseph.
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And it came to pass at that time, when Jeroboam went out of Jerusalem, that the prophet
Ahijah the Shilonite found him in the way; now [Ahijah] had clad himself with a new
garment; and they two were alone in the field.
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And Ahijah laid hold of the new garment that was on him, and rent it in twelve pieces.
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And he said to Jeroboam, Take you ten pieces; for thus says YHWH, the God of Israel,
Behold, I will rend the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon, and will give ten tribes
to you
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(but he shall have one tribe, for my servant David`s sake and for Jerusalem`s sake,
the city which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel);
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because that they have forsaken me, and have worshiped Ashtoreth the goddess of the
Sidonians, Chemosh the god of Moab, and Milcom the god of the children of Ammon; and
they have not walked in my ways, to do that which is right in mine eyes, and [to keep]
my statutes and mine ordinances, as did David his father.
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Nevertheless I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand; but I will make him
prince all the days of his life, for David my servant`s sake whom I chose, who kept
my commandments and my statutes;
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but I will take the kingdom out of his son`s hand, and will give it to you, even ten
tribes.
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And to his son will I give one tribe, that David my servant may have a lamp alway
before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen me to put my name there.
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And I will take you, and you shall reign according to all that your soul desires,
and shall be king over Israel.
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And it shall be, if you will hearken to all that I command you, and will walk in my
ways, and do that which is right in mine eyes, to keep my statutes and my commandments,
as David my servant did; that I will be with you, and will build you a sure house,
as I built for David, and will give Israel to you.
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And I will for this afflict the seed of David, but not for ever.
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Solomon sought therefore to kill Jeroboam; but Jeroboam arose, and fled into Egypt,
to Shishak king of Egypt, and was in Egypt until the death of Solomon.
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Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, and all that he did, and his wisdom, are they
not written in the book of the acts of Solomon?
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And the time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel was forty years.
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And Solomon slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David his father:
and Rehoboam his son reigned in his stead.