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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1But King Solomon married many foreign women besides the daughter of Pharaoh: women from Moab, Ammon, Edom, and Sidonia, along with Hittite women, too, |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2all of them from nations that the LORD had ordered the Israelis, "You are not to associate with them and they are not to associate with you, because they will most certainly turn your affections away to follow their gods." Solomon became deeply attached to them by falling in love. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3He had 700 princess wives and 300 mistresses who turned his heart away from the LORD, |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4because as Solomon grew older, his wives turned his affections away after other gods, and his heart was not fully as devoted to the LORD his God as his father David's heart had been. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Solomon pursued Astarte, the Sidonian goddess, and Milcom, that detestable Ammonite idol. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Solomon practiced what the LORD considered to be evil by not fully following the LORD, as had his father David. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Later, Solomon even constructed a high place on the mountain east of Jerusalem that was dedicated to Chemosh, that detestable Moabite idol, and to Molech, the detestable Ammonite idol. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Solomon did this for all of his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their own gods. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9The LORD became angry at Solomon because his heart wandered away from the LORD God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10and warned him about this so he would not pursue other gods. But he did not obey what the LORD had commanded, |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11so the LORD told Solomon, "Because you have done this and haven't kept my covenant and statutes that I commanded you, I'm going to tear the kingdom from you and give it to your servant. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12I'm not going to do this during your lifetime, for the sake of your father David, but I will tear it out of your son's control. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13For the sake of my servant David and for the sake of Jerusalem, I won't tear away the entire kingdom. I'll leave one tribe for your son to govern." |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14After this, the LORD allowed Hadad the Edomite to oppose Solomon. He was part of the royal line of Edom. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15During David's military campaign against Edom, when his army commander Joab had gone out to bury the dead, he killed every male in Edom. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16Joab had his entire army of Israel stay there for six months until he had eliminated every male in Edom. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17But Hadad escaped to Egypt in the company of some of his father's Edomite servants, while Hadad was still a little child. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18They left Midian, arrived in Paran, and left from Paran with some men and traveled on to Egypt, where Pharaoh, king of Egypt, gave him a house to live in, assigned a food allotment to him, and gave him some land. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19Hadad won the affection of the Pharaoh, who gave permission for Hadad to marry the sister of his own wife, Queen Tahpenes. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20Queen Tahpenes' sister bore him his son Genubath, whom Tahpenes weaned in Pharaoh's palace while Genubath lived in Pharaoh's palace with the Pharaoh's own sons. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21Later on, Hadad learned in Egypt that David had been buried with his ancestors and that Joab the army commander was dead. So Hadad asked Pharaoh, "Please send me out so I can go back to my own land." |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22Pharaoh asked him, "But have you lacked anything from me that would make you want to go back to your own country?" "No," he answered, "but I still really must leave." |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23God also raised up Eliada's son Rezon, who had escaped from his master King Hadadezer of Zobah. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24He raised an army and commanded a gang of raiders after David had eliminated those who lived in Zobah. Rezon and his army moved to Damascus, remained there, and Rezon ruled from Damascus. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25He opposed Israel during Solomon's entire reign, in addition to all of the evil things that Hadad did. Rezon also hated Israel while he reigned over Aram. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26Solomon had a servant, Nebat's son Jeroboam, who was an Ephraimite from Zeredah. His widowed mother was named Zeruah. Jeroboam rebelled against Solomon, |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27and this is why he rose in rebellion against the king: Solomon had built up the terrace ramparts in the city of his father David in order to repair a weakness. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28Jeroboam was a valiant soldier, and because Solomon observed that the young man was able to get things done, he set him in charge over all of the conscripted labor from the household of Joseph. |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29During that time, Jeroboam left Jerusalem and the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite met him on the road. Ahijah had wrapped himself up in a new cloak, and both of them were alone on the open road. |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30Ahijah grabbed the new cloak that he was wearing and tore it into twelve pieces! |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31Then he told Jeroboam, "Take ten pieces for yourself, because this is what the LORD God of Israel says: 'Pay attention! I'm going to tear the kingdom out of Solomon's control and give you ten tribes. |
| 32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32I'll leave him one tribe for the sake of my servant David and one tribe for the sake of Jerusalem, the city that I chose from all of the tribes of Israel. |
| 33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33I'm doing this because they have abandoned me and worshipped that Sidonian goddess Astarte, the Moabite god Chemosh, and the Ammonite god Milcom. They haven't lived my way by doing what I consider to be right and observing my statutes and my ordinances, like his father David did. |
| 34[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 34Nevertheless, I won't take the entire kingdom away from him, but I'll let him reign for the rest of his life, because of my servant David, whom I chose, who obeyed my commandments and statutes, |
| 35[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 35but I will take the kingdom away from his son's control and give ten tribes to you. |
| 36[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 36I'll give one tribe to his son, so my servant David will always have a light shining in my presence in Jerusalem, the city that I chose for myself and where I have placed my name. |
| 37[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 37I'm going to take you and have you reign over whatever you desire. You will be king over Israel. |
| 38[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 38If you listen to everything that I command you to do, and if you live your life my way, and if you do what I consider to be right by observing my statutes and my commandments, just like my servant David did, then I will be with you, I will build an enduring dynasty for you, just like I did for David, and I'll give Israel to you. |
| 39[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 39This is how I'm going to afflict David's descendants because of what they have done, though I won't do it continuously.'" |
| 40[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 40That's why Solomon tried to execute Jeroboam, but Jeroboam got up and fled to Egypt, where he lived as a guest of King Shishak and remained until Solomon had died. |
| 41[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 41Now the rest of Solomon's accomplishments, including everything else he did, as well as records of his wisdom, are recorded in the Book of the Acts of Solomon, are they not? |
| 42[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 42Solomon reigned over all of Israel from Jerusalem for a total of 40 years. |
| 43[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 43Then Solomon died, as had his ancestors, and he was buried in the city of his father David. His son Rehoboam reigned in his place. |
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