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I Kings Chapter 11

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After Solomon’s death his son Rehoboam is crowned king, but the northern tribes of Israel rebel and join the Philistines, while the southern tribes remain loyal to Rehoboam. The chapter records the split of the kingdom and the political consequences of this division, showing that the united kingdom could not endure without the loyalty of all its people.

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(1) But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites;
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I Kings 11:8Genesis 6:2Genesis 6:3Genesis 6:4Genesis 6:5Deuteronomy 17:17Nehemiah 13:23Nehemiah 13:24Nehemiah 13:25Nehemiah 13:26Nehemiah 13:27Proverbs 2:16

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Exodus 1:19Esther 2:15Luke 12:53Judges 5:24Judges 16:27I Samuel 15:33

(2) Of the nations concerning which the LORD said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall not go in to them, neither shall they come in unto you: for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods: Solomon clave unto these in love.
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Exodus 23:32Exodus 23:33Exodus 34:16Deuteronomy 7:3Deuteronomy 7:4Joshua 23:12Joshua 23:13Ezra 9:12Ezra 10:2Ezra 10:3Ezra 10:4Ezra 10:5

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Judges 10:6Hosea 3:1Jeremiah 16:3Jeremiah 27:19Luke 6:32I Kings 20:23

(3) And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines: and his wives turned away his heart.
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Judges 8:30Judges 8:31Judges 9:5II Samuel 3:2II Samuel 3:3II Samuel 3:4II Samuel 3:5II Samuel 5:13II Samuel 5:14II Samuel 5:15II Samuel 5:16II Chronicles 11:21

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II Chronicles 11:21Genesis 4:23Judges 21:7II Samuel 12:11Ezra 10:44Jeremiah 29:6

(4) 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 the LORD his God, as was the heart of David his father.
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I Kings 11:42I Kings 6:1I Kings 9:10I Kings 14:21I Kings 11:2Deuteronomy 7:4Deuteronomy 17:17Nehemiah 13:26Nehemiah 13:27I Kings 11:6I Kings 11:38I Kings 6:12

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Judges 10:6I Kings 10:13I Kings 11:3I Kings 1:51I Kings 1:53II Chronicles 9:1

(5) For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.
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I Kings 11:33Judges 2:13Judges 10:6I Samuel 7:3I Samuel 7:4I Samuel 12:10II Kings 23:13Jeremiah 2:10Jeremiah 2:11Jeremiah 2:12Jeremiah 2:13I Kings 11:7

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II Kings 23:13I Kings 11:33I Kings 11:7I Kings 11:1I Kings 1:51I Kings 1:53

(6) And Solomon did evil in the sight of the LORD, and went not fully after the LORD, as did David his father.
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Numbers 14:24Joshua 14:8Joshua 14:14

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(7) Then did Solomon build an high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, in the hill that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the abomination of the children of Ammon.
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Leviticus 26:30Numbers 33:52II Kings 21:2II Kings 21:3II Kings 23:13II Kings 23:14Psalms 78:58Ezekiel 20:28Ezekiel 20:29Numbers 21:29Judges 11:24Jeremiah 48:13

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II Kings 23:13Judges 11:18Exodus 8:26Leviticus 11:11Leviticus 11:13Proverbs 29:27

(8) And likewise did he for all his strange wives, which burnt incense and sacrificed unto their gods.
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I Kings 11:1Ezekiel 16:22Ezekiel 16:23Ezekiel 16:24Ezekiel 16:25Ezekiel 16:26Ezekiel 16:27Ezekiel 16:28Ezekiel 16:29Hosea 4:11Hosea 4:12I Corinthians 10:11

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Judges 10:6Deuteronomy 12:30Deuteronomy 32:17II Chronicles 25:14II Chronicles 28:23Jeremiah 44:15

(9) And the LORD was angry with Solomon, because his heart was turned from the LORD God of Israel, which had appeared unto him twice,
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Exodus 4:14Numbers 12:9Deuteronomy 3:26Deuteronomy 9:8Deuteronomy 9:20II Samuel 6:7II Samuel 11:27I Chronicles 21:7Psalms 78:58Psalms 78:59Psalms 78:60Psalms 90:7

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I Kings 10:13I Kings 9:2I Kings 1:51I Kings 1:53II Chronicles 9:1

(10) And had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not go after other gods: but he kept not that which the LORD commanded.
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I Kings 6:12I Kings 6:13I Kings 9:4I Kings 9:5I Kings 9:6I Kings 9:7II Chronicles 7:17II Chronicles 7:18II Chronicles 7:19II Chronicles 7:20II Chronicles 7:21II Chronicles 7:22

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(11) Wherefore the LORD said unto Solomon, Forasmuch as this is done of thee, and thou hast not kept my covenant and my statutes, which I have commanded thee, I will surely rend the kingdom from thee, and will give it to thy servant.
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Isaiah 29:13Isaiah 29:14I Kings 11:31I Kings 12:15I Kings 12:16I Kings 12:20Numbers 14:23Numbers 14:35I Samuel 2:30I Samuel 2:31I Samuel 2:32I Samuel 13:13

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(12) Notwithstanding in thy days I will not do it for David thy father's sake: but I will rend it out of the hand of thy son.
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(13) Howbeit I will not rend away all the kingdom; but will give one tribe to thy son for David my servant's sake, and for Jerusalem's sake which I have chosen.
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I Kings 11:39II Samuel 7:15II Samuel 7:16I Chronicles 17:13I Chronicles 17:14Psalms 89:33Psalms 89:34Psalms 89:35Psalms 89:36Psalms 89:37I Kings 11:35I Kings 11:36

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(14) And the LORD stirred up an adversary unto Solomon, Hadad the Edomite: he was of the king's seed in Edom.
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I Kings 12:15I Samuel 26:19II Samuel 24:1I Chronicles 5:26Isaiah 10:5Isaiah 10:26Isaiah 13:17II Samuel 7:14Psalms 89:30Psalms 89:31Psalms 89:32Psalms 89:33

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(15) For it came to pass, when David was in Edom, and Joab the captain of the host was gone up to bury the slain, after he had smitten every male in Edom;
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II Samuel 8:14I Chronicles 18:12I Chronicles 18:13Psalms 60:1Psalms 108:10Genesis 25:23Genesis 27:40Numbers 24:18Numbers 24:19Deuteronomy 20:13Malachi 1:2Malachi 1:3

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(16) (For six months did Joab remain there with all Israel, until he had cut off every male in Edom:)
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(17) 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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Exodus 2:1Exodus 2:2Exodus 2:3Exodus 2:4Exodus 2:5Exodus 2:6Exodus 2:7Exodus 2:8Exodus 2:9Exodus 2:10II Samuel 4:4II Kings 11:2

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(18) And they arose out of Midian, and came to Paran: and they took men with them out of Paran, and they came to Egypt, unto Pharaoh king of Egypt; which gave him an house, and appointed him victuals, and gave him land.
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(19) And Hadad found great favour 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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Genesis 39:4Genesis 39:21Acts 7:10Acts 7:21Genesis 41:45Jeremiah 43:7Jeremiah 43:8Jeremiah 43:9

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(20) And the sister of Tahpenes bare him Genubath his son, whom Tahpenes weaned in Pharaoh's house: and Genubath was in Pharaoh's household among the sons of Pharaoh.
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Genesis 21:7I Samuel 1:24

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(21) 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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I Kings 2:10I Kings 2:34Exodus 4:19Matthew 2:20Genesis 45:24Joshua 2:21I Samuel 9:26II Samuel 3:21

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(22) Then Pharaoh said unto him, But what hast thou lacked with me, that, behold, thou seekest to go to thine own country? And he answered, Nothing: howbeit let me go in any wise.
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Jeremiah 2:31Luke 22:35II Samuel 18:22II Samuel 18:23Psalms 37:8Mark 14:31

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(23) And God stirred him up another adversary, Rezon the son of Eliadah, which fled from his lord Hadadezer king of Zobah:
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I Kings 11:14II Samuel 16:11Ezra 1:1Isaiah 13:17Isaiah 37:26Isaiah 45:5Ezekiel 38:16II Samuel 8:3II Samuel 10:8II Samuel 10:15II Samuel 10:16II Samuel 10:17

(24) And he gathered men unto him, and became captain over a band, when David slew them of Zobah: and they went to Damascus, and dwelt therein, and reigned in Damascus.
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(25) And he was an adversary to Israel all the days of Solomon, beside the mischief that Hadad did: and he abhorred Israel, and reigned over Syria.
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I Kings 5:4II Chronicles 15:2Genesis 34:30Deuteronomy 23:7II Samuel 16:21Psalms 106:40Zechariah 11:8

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(26) And Jeroboam the son of Nebat, an Ephrathite of Zereda, Solomon's servant, whose mother's name was Zeruah, a widow woman, even he lifted up his hand against the king.
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I Kings 11:11I Kings 11:28I Kings 12:2I Kings 12:20I Kings 12:21I Kings 12:22I Kings 12:23I Kings 12:24I Kings 13:1I Kings 13:2I Kings 13:3I Kings 13:4

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(27) And this was the cause that he lifted up his hand against the king: Solomon built Millo, and repaired the breaches of the city of David his father.
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(28) And the man Jeroboam was a mighty man of valour: and Solomon seeing the young man that he was industrious, he made him ruler over all the charge of the house of Joseph.
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(29) 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; and he had clad himself with a new garment; and they two were alone in the field:
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(30) And Ahijah caught the new garment that was on him, and rent it in twelve pieces:
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(31) And he said to Jeroboam, Take thee ten pieces: for thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, Behold, I will rend the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon, and will give ten tribes to thee:
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I Kings 11:11I Kings 11:12

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(32) (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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(33) Because that they have forsaken me, and have worshipped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Milcom the god of the children of Ammon, and have not walked in my ways, to do that which is right in mine eyes, and to keep my statutes and my judgments, as did David his father.
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(34) Howbeit 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, because he kept my commandments and my statutes:
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(35) But I will take the kingdom out of his son's hand, and will give it unto thee, even ten tribes.
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(36) And unto his son will I give one tribe, that David my servant may have a light alway before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen me to put my name there.
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(37) And I will take thee, and thou shalt reign according to all that thy soul desireth, and shalt be king over Israel.
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I Kings 11:26Deuteronomy 14:26II Samuel 3:21

(38) And it shall be, if thou wilt hearken unto all that I command thee, and wilt walk in my ways, and do that is right in my sight, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as David my servant did; that I will be with thee, and build thee a sure house, as I built for David, and will give Israel unto thee.
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(39) And I will for this afflict the seed of David, but not for ever.
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(40) Solomon sought therefore to kill Jeroboam. And Jeroboam arose, and fled into Egypt, unto Shishak king of Egypt, and was in Egypt until the death of Solomon.
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(41) And 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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(42) And the time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel was forty years.
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(43) And Solomon slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David his father: and Rehoboam his son reigned in his stead.
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