1 Kings 11

¹ And king Solomon has loved many strange women, and the daughter of Pharaoh, females of Moab, Ammon, Edom, Zidon, [and] of the Hittites, ² of the nations of which Yahweh said unto the sons of Israel, "You do not go in to them, and they do not go in to you; surely they turn aside your heart after their elohims"; to them has Solomon cleaved for love. ³ And he has women, princesses, seven hundred, and concubines three hundred; and his wives turn aside his heart. ⁴ And it comes to pass, at the time of the old age of Solomon, his wives have turned aside his heart after other elohims, and his heart has not been perfect with Yahweh his Elohim, like the heart of David his father. ⁵ And Solomon goes after Ashtoreth elohim [goddess] of the Zidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites; ⁶ and Solomon does the evil thing in the eyes of Yahweh, and has not been fully after Yahweh, like David his father. ⁷ Then does Solomon build a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, in the hill that [is] on the front of Jerusalem, and for Molech the abomination of the sons of Ammon; ⁸ and so he has done for all his strange women, who are perfuming and sacrificing to their elohims. ⁹ And Yahweh shows Himself angry with Solomon, for his heart has turned aside from Yahweh, Elohim of Israel, who had appeared unto him twice, ¹⁰ and given a charge unto him concerning this thing, not to go after other elohims; and he has not kept that which Yahweh commanded, ¹¹ and Yahweh said to Solomon, "Because that this has been with you, and you have not kept My covenant and My statutes that I charged upon you, I surely rend the kingdom from you, and have given it to your servant. ¹² Only, in your days I do it not, for the sake of David your father; out of the hand of your son I rend it; ¹³ only all the kingdom I do not rend away; one tribe I give to your son, for the sake of David My servant, and for the sake of Jerusalem, that I have chosen." ¹⁴ And Yahweh raises up an adversary to Solomon, Hadad the Edomite; of the seed of the king [is] he in Edom; ¹⁵ and it comes to pass, in David's being with Edom, in the going up of Joab head of the host to bury the slain, that he smites every male in Edom - ¹⁶ for six months did Joab abide there, and all Israel, till the cutting off of every male in Edom - ¹⁷ and Hadad flees, he and certain Edomites, of the servants of his father, with him, to go in to Egypt, and Hadad [is] a little youth, ¹⁸ and they rise out of Midian, and come into Paran, and take men with them out of Paran, and come in to Egypt, unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he gives to him a house, and bread has commanded for him, and land has given to him. ¹⁹ And Hadad finds grace in the eyes of Pharaoh exceedingly, and he gives to him a wife, the sister of his own wife, sister of Tahpenes the mistress; ²⁰ and the sister of Tahpenes bears to him Genubath his son, and Tahpenes weans him within the house of Pharaoh, and Genubath is in the house of Pharaoh in the midst of the sons of Pharaoh. ²¹ And Hadad has heard in Egypt that David has lain with his fathers, and that Joab head of the host is dead, and Hadad said unto Pharaoh, "Send me away, and I go unto my land." ²² And Pharaoh said to him, "But, what are you lacking with me, that lo, you are seeking to go unto your own land?" and he said, "Nay, but you do certainly send me away." ²³ And Elohim raises to him an adversary, Rezon son of Eliadah, who has fled from Hadadezer king of Zobah, his lord, ²⁴ and gathers unto himself men, and is head of a troop in David's slaying them, and they go to Damascus, and dwell in it, and reign in Damascus; ²⁵ and he is an adversary to Israel all the days of Solomon, (besides the evil that Hadad [did]), and he cuts off in Israel, and reigns over Aram. ²⁶ And Jeroboam son of Nebat, an Ephrathite of Zereda - the name of whose mother [is] Zeruah, a widow woman - servant to Solomon, he also lifts up a hand against the king; ²⁷ and this [is] the thing [for] which he lifted up a hand against the king: Solomon built Millo - he shut up the breach of the city of David his father, ²⁸ and the man Jeroboam [is] mighty in valor, and Solomon sees the young man that he is doing business, and appoints him over all the burden of the house of Joseph. ²⁹ And it comes to pass, at that time, that Jeroboam has gone out from Jerusalem, and Ahijah the Shilonite, the prophet, finds him in the way, and he is covering himself with a new garment; and both of them [are] by themselves in a field, ³⁰ and Ahijah lays hold on the new garment that [is] on him, and rends it - twelve pieces, ³¹ and said to Jeroboam, "Take to you ten pieces, for thus said Yahweh, Elohim of Israel, lo, I am rending the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon, and have given to you the ten tribes, ³² and the one tribe he has for My servant David's sake, and for Jerusalem's sake, the city which I have fixed on, out of all the tribes of Israel. ³³ Because they have forsaken Me, and bow themselves to Ashtoreth, elohim [goddess] of the Zidonians, to Chemosh elohim of Moab, and to Milcom elohim of the sons of Ammon, and have not walked in My ways, to do that which [is] right in Mine eyes, and My statutes and My judgments, like David his father. ³⁴ And I do not take the whole of the kingdom out of his hand, for prince I make him all days of his life, for the sake of David My servant whom I chose, who kept My commands and My statutes; ³⁵ and I have taken the kingdom out of the hand of his son, and given it to you - the ten tribes; ³⁶ and to his son I give one tribe, for there being a lamp to David My servant all the days before Me in Jerusalem, the city that I have chosen to Myself to put My name there. ³⁷ And you I take, and you have reigned over all that your soul desires, and you have been king over Israel; ³⁸ and it has been, if you do hear all that I command you, and have walked in My ways, and done that which is right in Mine eyes, to keep My statutes and My commands, as did David My servant, that I have been with you, and have built for you a stedfast house, as I built for David, and have given to you Israel, ³⁹ and I humble the seed of David for this; only, not all the days." ⁴⁰ And Solomon seeks to put Jeroboam to death, and Jeroboam rises and flees to Egypt, unto Shishak king of Egypt, and he is in Egypt till the death of Solomon. ⁴¹ And the rest of the matters of Solomon, and all that he did, and his wisdom, are they not written on the book of the matters of Solomon? ⁴² And the days that Solomon has reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel [are] forty years, ⁴³ and Solomon lies with his fathers, and is buried in the city of David his father, and reign does Rehoboam his son in his stead.