1 Kings 11 - New American Standard Bible (NASB)

Solomon Turns from God

11 Now ^(A)King Solomon loved many foreign women along with the daughter of Pharaoh: Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, and Hittite women, ² from the nations of which the Lord had said to the sons of Israel, “^(B)You shall not ^[a]associate with them, nor shall they ^[b]associate with you; they will certainly turn your heart away ^[c]to follow their gods.” Solomon clung to these in love. ^{3 (C)}He had seven hundred wives, who were ^[d]princesses, and three hundred concubines; and his wives turned his heart away. ⁴ For when Solomon was old, his wives turned his heart away ^[e]to follow other gods; and ^(D)his heart was not ^[f]wholly devoted to the Lord his God, as the heart of his father David had been. ⁵ For Solomon became a follower of ^(E)Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and of ^[g](F)Milcom the abhorrent idol of the Ammonites. ⁶ So Solomon did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, and did not follow the Lord fully, as his father David had done. ⁷ Then Solomon built a high place for ^(G)Chemosh, the abhorrent idol of Moab, on the mountain that is ^[h]east of Jerusalem, and for ^(H)Molech, the abhorrent idol of the sons of Ammon. ⁸ He also did the same for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods.

⁹ Now ^(I)the Lord was angry with Solomon ^(J)because his heart had turned away from the Lord, the God of Israel, ^(K)who had appeared to him twice, ¹⁰ and ^(L)had commanded him regarding this thing, that he was not to follow other gods; but he did not comply with what the Lord had commanded. ¹¹ So the Lord said to Solomon, “Since ^[i]you have done this, and you have not kept My covenant and My statutes, which I have commanded you, ^(M)I will certainly tear the kingdom away from you, and will give it to your servant. ¹² However, I will not do it in your days, only for the sake of your father David; but I will tear it away from the hand of your son. ¹³ Yet ^(N)I will not tear away all the kingdom, but ^(O)I will give one tribe to your son for the sake of My servant David, and ^(P)for the sake of Jerusalem, which I have chosen.”

God Raises Adversaries

¹⁴ Then the Lord raised up an adversary against Solomon, Hadad the Edomite; he was of the ^[j]royal line in Edom. ¹⁵ For it came about, ^(Q)when David was in Edom and Joab the commander of the army had gone up to bury those killed in battle, and had ^(R)struck and killed every male in Edom ¹⁶ (for Joab and all Israel stayed there for six months, until he had eliminated every male in Edom), ¹⁷ that Hadad fled ^[k]to Egypt, he and certain Edomites of his father’s servants with him, while Hadad was a young boy. ¹⁸ They set out from Midian and came to ^(S)Paran; and they took men with them from Paran and came to Egypt, to Pharaoh king of Egypt, who gave him a house and assigned him food and gave him land. ¹⁹ Now Hadad found great favor in the sight of Pharaoh, so that he gave him in marriage the sister of his own wife, the sister of Tahpenes the queen. ²⁰ And the sister of Tahpenes gave birth to his son Genubath, whom Tahpenes weaned in Pharaoh’s house; and Genubath was in Pharaoh’s house among the sons of Pharaoh. ²¹ But ^(T)when Hadad heard in Egypt that David ^[l]lay down with his fathers and that Joab the commander of the army was dead, Hadad said to Pharaoh, “Let me go, so that I may go to my own country.” ²² However, Pharaoh said to him, “But what have you lacked with me that you are here, requesting to go to your own country?” And he answered, “Nothing; nevertheless you must let me go.”

^{23 (U)}God also raised up another adversary against him, Rezon the son of Eliada, who had fled from his master ^(V)Hadadezer, king of Zobah. ²⁴ And he gathered men to himself and became leader of a marauding band, ^(W)after David killed those of Zobah; and they went to Damascus and stayed ^[m]there, and reigned in Damascus. ²⁵ So he was an adversary to Israel all the days of Solomon, along with the harm that Hadad inflicted; and he felt disgust for Israel and reigned over Aram.

²⁶ Then ^(X)Jeroboam the son of Nebat, an Ephraimite of Zeredah, Solomon’s servant, whose mother’s name was Zeruah, a widow, ^(Y)also ^[n]rebelled against the king. ²⁷ Now this was the reason why he ^[o]rebelled against the king: ^(Z)Solomon built the ^[p]Millo, and closed up the breach of the city of his father David. ²⁸ Now the man Jeroboam was a valiant warrior, and when ^(AA)Solomon saw that the young man was ^[q]industrious, he appointed him over all the ^[r]forced labor of the house of Joseph. ²⁹ And it came about at that time, when Jeroboam went out of Jerusalem, that ^(AB)the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite found him on the road. Now ^[s]Ahijah had clothed himself with a new cloak; and both of them were alone in the field. ³⁰ Then ^(AC)Ahijah took hold of the new cloak which was on him and tore it into twelve pieces. ³¹ And he said to Jeroboam, “Take for yourself ten pieces; for this is what the Lord, the God of Israel says: ‘Behold, ^(AD)I am going to tear the kingdom away from the hand of Solomon and give you ten tribes ³² (^(AE)but he shall have one tribe, for the sake of My servant David and for the sake of Jerusalem, ^(AF)the city which I have chosen from all the tribes of Israel), ³³ because they have abandoned Me, and ^(AG)have worshiped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, ^(AH)Chemosh the god of Moab, and Milcom the god of the sons of Ammon; and they have not walked in My ways, doing what is right in My sight and keeping My statutes and My ordinances, as his father David did. ³⁴ Nevertheless I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand, but I will make him ruler all the days of his life, for the sake of My servant David whom I chose, who kept My commandments and My statutes; ³⁵ but ^(AI)I will take the kingdom from his son’s hand and give it to you; that is, ten tribes. ³⁶ But ^(AJ)to his son I will give one tribe, ^(AK)so that My servant David may always have a lamp before Me in Jerusalem, ^(AL)the city where I have chosen for Myself to put My name. ³⁷ However I will take you, and you shall reign over all that ^[t]you desire, and you shall be king over Israel. ³⁸ Then it shall be, that if you listen to all that I command you and walk in My ways, and do what is right in My sight by keeping My statutes and My commandments, as My servant David did, then ^(AM)I will be with you and ^(AN)build you an enduring house as I built for David, and I will give Israel to you. ³⁹ So I will oppress the ^[u]descendants of David for this, but not always.’” ⁴⁰ Solomon sought therefore to put Jeroboam to death; but Jeroboam set out and fled to Egypt to ^(AO)Shishak king of Egypt, and he was in Egypt until the death of Solomon.

The Death of Solomon

^{41 (AP)}Now the rest of the acts of Solomon and whatever he did, and his wisdom, are they not written in the Book of the Acts of Solomon? ⁴² So ^(AQ)the time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel was forty years. ⁴³ Then Solomon ^[v](AR)lay down with his fathers and was buried in the city of his father David, and his son ^(AS)Rehoboam reigned in his place.

Footnotes

1. 1 Kings 11:2 Lit go among
2. 1 Kings 11:2 Lit go among
3. 1 Kings 11:2 Lit after their
4. 1 Kings 11:3 Or women of rank
5. 1 Kings 11:4 Lit after other
6. 1 Kings 11:4 Lit complete with
7. 1 Kings 11:5 In Jer 49:1, 3, Malcam
8. 1 Kings 11:7 Lit before
9. 1 Kings 11:11 Lit this has happened with you
10. 1 Kings 11:14 Lit king’s seed
11. 1 Kings 11:17 Lit to go into
12. 1 Kings 11:21 I.e., died
13. 1 Kings 11:24 Lit in it
14. 1 Kings 11:26 Lit lifted up a hand
15. 1 Kings 11:27 Lit lifted up a hand
16. 1 Kings 11:27 I.e., terraced structure
17. 1 Kings 11:28 Lit a performer of work
18. 1 Kings 11:28 Lit burden of
19. 1 Kings 11:29 Lit he
20. 1 Kings 11:37 Lit your soul desires
21. 1 Kings 11:39 Lit seed
22. 1 Kings 11:43 I.e., died

Cross references

1. 1 Kings 11:1 : Deut 17:17; Neh 13:23-27
2. 1 Kings 11:2 : Ex 23:31-33; 34:12-16; Deut 7:3
3. 1 Kings 11:3 : 2 Sam 5:13-16
4. 1 Kings 11:4 : 1 Kin 9:4
5. 1 Kings 11:5 : Judg 2:13; 10:6; 1 Sam 7:3, 4
6. 1 Kings 11:5 : 1 Kin 11:7
7. 1 Kings 11:7 : Num 21:29; Judg 11:24; 2 Kin 23:13
8. 1 Kings 11:7 : Lev 20:2-5; 2 Kin 23:10; Acts 7:43
9. 1 Kings 11:9 : Ps 90:7
10. 1 Kings 11:9 : 1 Kin 11:2, 4
11. 1 Kings 11:9 : 1 Kin 3:5; 9:2
12. 1 Kings 11:10 : 1 Kin 6:12; 9:6, 7
13. 1 Kings 11:11 : 1 Sam 2:30; 1 Kin 11:29-31; 12:15, 16, 20; 2 Kin 17:15, 21
14. 1 Kings 11:13 : 2 Sam 7:15; 1 Chr 17:13; Ps 89:33
15. 1 Kings 11:13 : 1 Kin 11:32, 36; 12:20
16. 1 Kings 11:13 : 1 Kin 8:29
17. 1 Kings 11:15 : 2 Sam 8:14; 1 Chr 18:12, 13
18. 1 Kings 11:15 : Deut 20:13
19. 1 Kings 11:18 : Num 10:12; Deut 1:1
20. 1 Kings 11:21 : 1 Kin 2:10
21. 1 Kings 11:23 : 1 Kin 11:14
22. 1 Kings 11:23 : 2 Sam 8:3; 10:16
23. 1 Kings 11:24 : 2 Sam 10:8, 18
24. 1 Kings 11:26 : 1 Kin 11:11, 28; 12:2, 20; 2 Chr 13:6
25. 1 Kings 11:26 : 2 Sam 20:21
26. 1 Kings 11:27 : 1 Kin 9:15, 24
27. 1 Kings 11:28 : Prov 22:29
28. 1 Kings 11:29 : 1 Kin 12:15; 14:2; 2 Chr 9:29
29. 1 Kings 11:30 : 1 Sam 15:27, 28
30. 1 Kings 11:31 : 1 Kin 11:11, 12
31. 1 Kings 11:32 : 1 Kin 11:13; 12:21
32. 1 Kings 11:32 : 1 Kin 11:13; 14:21
33. 1 Kings 11:33 : 1 Sam 7:3; 1 Kin 11:5-8
34. 1 Kings 11:33 : Num 21:29; Jer 48:7, 13
35. 1 Kings 11:35 : 1 Kin 11:12; 12:16, 17
36. 1 Kings 11:36 : 1 Kin 11:13
37. 1 Kings 11:36 : 1 Kin 15:4; 2 Kin 8:19; Ps 132:17
38. 1 Kings 11:36 : 1 Kin 11:13
39. 1 Kings 11:38 : Deut 31:8; Josh 1:5
40. 1 Kings 11:38 : 2 Sam 7:11, 27
41. 1 Kings 11:40 : 1 Kin 14:25; 2 Chr 12:2-9
42. 1 Kings 11:41 : 2 Chr 9:29
43. 1 Kings 11:42 : 2 Chr 9:30
44. 1 Kings 11:43 : 1 Kin 2:10; 2 Chr 9:31
45. 1 Kings 11:43 : 1 Kin 14:21; Matt 1:7