World English Bible
1 Kings 11:12
“Notwithstanding I will not do it in your days, for David your father's sake; but I will tear it out of the hand of your son.”
1 Kings 11:12 in the King James Version
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.Read 1 Kings 11:12 in the King James Version →
Verse in context — 1 Kings 11
and had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not go after other gods: but he didn't keep that which Yahweh commanded.
Therefore Yahweh said to Solomon, "Because this is done by you, and you have not kept my covenant and my statutes, which I have commanded you, I will surely tear the kingdom from you, and will give it to your servant.
Notwithstanding I will not do it in your days, for David your father's sake; but I will tear it out of the hand of your son.
However I will not tear away all the kingdom; but I will give one tribe to your son, for David my servant's sake, and for Jerusalem's sake which I have chosen.
Yahweh raised up an adversary to Solomon, Hadad the Edomite: he was of the king's seed in Edom.
Cross references for 1 Kings 11:12
- 2 Kings 20:17
Behold, the days come, that all that is in your house, and that which your fathers have laid up in store to this day, shall be carried to Babylon. Nothing shall be left,' says Yahweh.
- 2 Kings 20:19
Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah, "The word of Yahweh which you have spoken is good." He said moreover, "Isn't it so, if peace and truth shall be in my days?
- Genesis 12:2
I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great. You will be a blessing.
- 2 Kings 22:19-20
because your heart was tender, and you humbled yourself before Yahweh, when you heard what I spoke against this place, and against its inhabitants, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and have torn your clothes, and wept befor...
- Genesis 19:29
It happened, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the middle of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot lived.
- 1 Samuel 9:4-5
He passed through the hill country of Ephraim, and passed through the land of Shalishah, but they didn't find them: then they passed through the land of Shaalim, and there they weren't there: and he passed through the land of the Benjamites...
- Exodus 20:5
you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me,
- 1 Kings 21:29
See how Ahab humbles himself before me? Because he humbles himself before me, I will not bring the evil in his days; but in his son's days will I bring the evil on his house.
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Solomon’s reign, the temple’s construction, and the kingdom’s division.
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