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1 Kings 11:1 (GW)
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King Solomon loved many foreign women in addition to Pharaoh’s daughter. He loved Hittite women and women from Moab, Ammon, Edom, and Sidon.

1 Kings 11:2 (GW)
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They came from the nations about which the Lord had said to the people of Israel, “Never intermarry with them. They will surely tempt you to follow their gods.” But Solomon was obsessed with their love.

1 Kings 11:3 (GW)
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He had 700 wives who were princesses and 300 wives who were concubines.

1 Kings 11:4 (GW)
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In his old age, his wives tempted him to follow other gods. He was no longer committed to the Lord his God as his father David had been.

1 Kings 11:5 (GW)
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Solomon followed Astarte (the goddess of the Sidonians) and Milcom (the disgusting idol of the Ammonites).

1 Kings 11:6 (GW)
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So Solomon did what the Lord considered evil. He did not wholeheartedly follow the Lord as his father David had done.

1 Kings 11:7 (GW)
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Then Solomon built an illegal worship site on the hill east of Jerusalem for Chemosh (the disgusting idol of Moab) and for Molech (the disgusting idol of the Ammonites).

1 Kings 11:8 (GW)
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He did these things for each of his foreign wives who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods.

1 Kings 11:9 (GW)
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So the Lord became angry with Solomon because his heart had turned from the Lord God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice.

1 Kings 11:10 (GW)
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God had given him commands about this. He told him not to follow other gods. But Solomon did not obey God’s command.

1 Kings 11:11 (GW)
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The Lord told Solomon, “Because this is your attitude and you have no respect for my promises or my laws that I commanded you to keep, I will certainly tear the kingdom away from you. I will give it to one of your servants.

1 Kings 11:12 (GW)
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But I will not do it in your lifetime because of your father David. I will tear it away from the hands of your son.

1 Kings 11:13 (GW)
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However, I will not tear the whole kingdom away from you. I will give your son one tribe for my servant David’s sake and for the sake of Jerusalem, the city that I chose.”

1 Kings 11:14 (GW)
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The Lord raised up Hadad the Edomite as a rival to Solomon. Hadad was from the Edomite royal family.

1 Kings 11:15 (GW)
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When David had conquered Edom, Joab, the commander of the army, went to bury those killed in battle and killed every male in Edom.

1 Kings 11:16 (GW)
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(Joab and all Israel stayed there six months until they had destroyed every male in Edom.)

1 Kings 11:17 (GW)
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Hadad was a young boy at the time. He and some of his father’s Edomite servants fled to Egypt.

1 Kings 11:18 (GW)
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They left Midian and went to Paran. Taking some men from Paran with them, they went to Pharaoh (the king of Egypt). Pharaoh gave Hadad a home, a food allowance, and land.

1 Kings 11:19 (GW)
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Pharaoh approved of Hadad. So he gave Hadad his sister-in-law, the sister of Queen Tahpenes, to be Hadad’s wife.

1 Kings 11:20 (GW)
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Tahpenes’ sister had a son named Genubath. Tahpenes presented the boy to Pharaoh in the palace, and Genubath lived in the palace among Pharaoh’s children.

1 Kings 11:21 (GW)
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When Hadad heard in Egypt that David had lain down in death with his ancestors and that Joab, the commander of the army, had died, he said to Pharaoh, “Let me go to my own country.”

1 Kings 11:22 (GW)
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Pharaoh asked him, “What don’t you have here that makes you eager to go home?” “Nothing,” he said. “But let me leave anyway.”

1 Kings 11:23 (GW)
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God also raised up Rezon, son of Eliada, as a rival to Solomon. Rezon fled from his master, King Hadadezer of Zobah,

1 Kings 11:24 (GW)
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after David killed the men of Zobah. Rezon gathered men and became the leader of a troop of warriors. They went to Damascus, settled there, and ruled a kingdom in Damascus.

1 Kings 11:25 (GW)
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In addition to the trouble that Hadad caused, Rezon was Israel’s rival as long as Solomon lived. He ruled Aram and despised Israel.

1 Kings 11:26 (GW)
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There was also Jeroboam, who was the son of Nebat and an Ephrathite from Zeredah. His mother Zeruah was a widow. He was one of Solomon’s officers, but he rebelled against the king.

1 Kings 11:27 (GW)
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This was the situation when he rebelled against the king: Solomon was building the Millo and repairing a break in the wall of the City of David.

1 Kings 11:28 (GW)
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Solomon saw that Jeroboam was a very able and hardworking man. So he put Jeroboam in charge of all forced labor from the tribes of Joseph.

1 Kings 11:29 (GW)
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At that time Jeroboam left Jerusalem. The prophet Ahijah from Shiloh met him on the road. The two of them were alone in the open country, and Ahijah had on new clothes.

1 Kings 11:30 (GW)
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Ahijah took his new garment and tore it into 12 pieces.

1 Kings 11:31 (GW)
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He told Jeroboam, “Take 10 pieces because this is what the Lord God of Israel says: I am going to tear the kingdom out of Solomon’s hands and give ten tribes to you.

1 Kings 11:32 (GW)
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He will have one tribe left because of my servant David and Jerusalem, the city I have chosen from all the tribes of Israel.

1 Kings 11:33 (GW)
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I will do this because he has abandoned me and worshiped Astarte (the goddess of the Sidonians), Chemosh (the god of Moab), and Milcom (the god of Ammon). He has not followed my ways. He did not do what I consider right or keep my laws and decrees as his father David did.

1 Kings 11:34 (GW)
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“I will not take the whole kingdom from him. Instead, I will allow him to be ruler as long as he lives because of my servant David whom I chose, who obeyed my commands and laws.

1 Kings 11:35 (GW)
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But I will take the kingdom away from his son and give you ten tribes.

1 Kings 11:36 (GW)
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I will give his son one tribe so that my servant David will always have a lamp in my presence in Jerusalem, the city where I chose to place my name.

1 Kings 11:37 (GW)
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“I will choose you so that you can rule everything you desire. You will be king of Israel.

1 Kings 11:38 (GW)
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If you will do all I command you, follow my ways, and do what I consider right by obeying my laws and commands as my servant David did, then I will be with you. I will build a permanent dynasty for you as I did for David. And I will give you Israel.

1 Kings 11:39 (GW)
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I will make David’s descendants suffer for this, but not always.”

1 Kings 11:40 (GW)
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Then Solomon tried to kill Jeroboam, but Jeroboam fled to King Shishak of Egypt. He stayed in Egypt until Solomon died.

1 Kings 11:41 (GW)
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Aren’t the rest of Solomon’s acts—everything he did—and his wisdom written in the records of Solomon?

1 Kings 11:42 (GW)
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The length of Solomon’s reign in Jerusalem over all Israel was 40 years.

1 Kings 11:43 (GW)
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Solomon lay down in death with his ancestors and was buried in the City of David. His son Rehoboam succeeded him as king.

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