I Kings Chapter 11
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darby (darby) - eBible.org Darby 1890 plaintext
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But king Solomon loved many foreign women, besides the daughter of Pharaoh: women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, Hittites;
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of the nations of which Jehovah had said to the children of Israel, Ye shall not go in to them, neither shall they come in to you; they would certainly turn away your heart after theirgods: to these Solomon was attached in love.
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And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines; and his wives turned away his heart.
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And it came to pass when Solomon was old, [that] his wives turned away his heart after othergods; and his heart was not perfect with Jehovah hisGod, as the heart of David his father.
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And Solomon went after Ashtoreth thegoddess of the Zidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.
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And Solomon did evil in the sight of Jehovah, and followed not fully Jehovah, as David his father.
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Then did Solomon build a high place for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, on the hill that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech the abomination of the children of Ammon.
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And so he did for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to theirgods.
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And Jehovah was angry with Solomon, because his heart was turned away from Jehovah theGod of Israel, who had appeared to him twice,
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and had commanded him concerning this thing, not to go after othergods; but he kept not what Jehovah had commanded.
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And Jehovah said to Solomon, Forasmuch as this is done by thee, and thou hast not kept my covenant and my statutes which I commanded thee, I will certainly rend the kingdom from thee, and will give it to thy servant:
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notwithstanding in thy days I will not do it, for David thy father's sake; I will rend it out of the hand of thy son;
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only, I will not rend away all the kingdom: I 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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And Jehovah stirred up an adversary to Solomon, Hadad the Edomite; he was of the king's seed in Edom.
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Now it came to pass when David was in Edom, when Joab the captain of the host had gone up to bury the slain, after he had smitten every male in Edom
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(for Joab abode there six months with all Israel, until he had cut off every male in Edom),
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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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And they arose out of Midian, and came to Paran, and took men with them out of Paran, and they came to Egypt, to Pharaoh king of Egypt; who gave him a house, and appointed him victuals, and gave him land.
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And Hadad found great favour in the sight of Pharaoh, and he gave him as wife the sister of his own wife, the sister of Tahpenes the queen.
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And the sister of Tahpenes bore him Genubath his son; and Tahpenes brought him up in Pharaoh's house; and Genubath was in Pharaoh's household, among the sons of Pharaoh.
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And Hadad heard in Egypt that David slept with his fathers, and that Joab the captain of the host was dead; and Hadad said to Pharaoh, Let me depart, that I may go to mine own country.
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And Pharaoh said to him, What then dost thou lack with me, that behold, thou desirest to go to thine own country? And he said, Nothing; but in any case let me depart.
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God stirred him up yet an adversary, Rezon the son of Eliada, who had fled from Hadadezer king of Zobah, his lord.
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And he collected men to him, and became captain of a band, when David slew them [of Zobah]; and they went to Damascus, and dwelt there, and reigned in Damascus.
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And he was an adversary to Israel all the days of Solomon, besides the mischief that Hadad [did]; and he abhorred Israel, and reigned over Syria.
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And Jeroboam the son of Nebat, an Ephrathite of Zeredah, 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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And this was the cause that he lifted up his hand against the king: Solomon was building Millo, and closing the breach of the city of David his father;
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and the man Jeroboam was strong and valiant; and Solomon saw the young man that he was industrious, and he made him ruler over all the charge of the house of Joseph.
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And it came to pass at that time that Jeroboam went out of Jerusalem, and 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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Then Ahijah seized the new garment that was on him, and rent it in twelve pieces;
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and said to Jeroboam, Take thee ten pieces; for thus saith Jehovah theGod 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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but one tribe shall he have 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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because they have forsaken me, and have worshipped Ashtoreth thegoddess of the Zidonians, Chemosh thegod of the Moabites, and Milcom thegod of the children of Ammon, and have not walked in my ways, to do that which is right in my sight, and my statutes and mine ordinances, as David his father.
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But I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand; for I will make him prince all the days of his life for David my servant's sake, whom I chose, who kept my commandments and my statutes;
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but I will take the kingdom out of his son's hand, and will give it unto thee, — the ten tribes.
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And unto his son will I give one tribe, that David my servant may have a lamp always before me in Jerusalem, the city that I have chosen for myself to put my name there.
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And I will take thee, that thou mayest reign over all that thy soul desireth, and thou shalt be king over Israel.
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And it shall be, if thou wilt hearken unto all that I command thee, and wilt walk in my ways, and do that which is right in my sight, in keeping my statutes and my commandments, as David my servant did, that I will be with thee, and build thee a lasting house, as I built for David, and will give Israel unto thee.
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And I will for this afflict the seed of David, but not for ever.
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And Solomon sought to kill Jeroboam; and Jeroboam arose and fled into Egypt, to Shishak king of Egypt; and he was in Egypt until the death of Solomon.
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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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And the time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel was forty years.
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And Solomon slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David his father; and Rehoboam his son reigned in his stead.
vul1914 (vul1914) - Vulgate 1914 UTF-8 (sacredbible.org)
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Rex autem Salomon adamavit mulieres alienigenas multas, filiam quoque Pharaonis, et Moabitidas, et Ammonitidas, Idumæas, et Sidonias, et Hetthæas:
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de gentibus, super quibus dixit Dominus filiis Israel: Non ingrediemini ad eas, neque de illis ingredientur ad vestras: certissime enim avertent corda vestra ut sequamini deos earum. His itaque copulatus est Salomon ardentissimo amore.
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Fueruntque ei uxores quasi reginæ septingentæ, et concubinæ trecentæ: et averterunt mulieres cor eius.
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Cumque iam esset senex, depravatum est cor eius per mulieres, ut sequeretur deos alienos: nec erat cor eius perfectum cum Domino Deo suo, sicut cor David patris eius.
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Sed colebat Salomon Astarthen deam Sidoniorum, et Moloch idolum Ammonitarum.
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Fecitque Salomon quod non placuerat coram Domino, et non adimplevit ut sequeretur Dominum, sicut David pater eius.
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Tunc ædificavit Salomon fanum Chamos, idolo Moab, in monte qui est contra Ierusalem, et Moloch idolo filiorum Ammon.
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Atque in hunc modum fecit universis uxoribus suis alienigenis, quæ adolebant thura, et immolabant diis suis.
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Igitur iratus est Dominus Salomoni, quod aversa esset mens eius a Domino Deo Israel, qui apparuerat ei secundo,
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et præceperat de verbo hoc ne sequeretur deos alienos, et non custodivit quæ mandavit ei Dominus.
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Dixit itaque Dominus Salomoni: Quia habuisti hoc apud te, et non custodisti pactum meum, et præcepta mea, quæ mandavi tibi, dirumpens scindam regnum tuum, et dabo illud servo tuo.
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Verumtamen in diebus tuis non faciam propter David patrem tuum: de manu filii tui scindam illud,
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nec totum regnum auferam, sed tribum unam dabo filio tuo propter David servum meum, et Ierusalem quam elegi.
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Suscitavit autem Dominus adversarium Salomoni Adad Idumæum de semine regio, qui erat in Edom.
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Cum enim esset David in Idumæa, et ascendisset Ioab princeps militiæ ad sepeliendum eos, qui fuerant interfecti, et occidisset omnem masculinum in Idumæa
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(sex enim mensibus ibi moratus est Ioad, et omnis Israel, donec interimeret omne masculinum in Idumæa)
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fugit Adad ipse, et viri Idumæi de servis patris eius cum eo, ut ingrederetur Ægyptum: erat autem Adad puer parvulus.
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Cumque surrexissent de Madian, venerunt in Pharan, tuleruntque secum viros de Pharan, et introierunt Ægyptum ad Pharaonem regem Ægypti: qui dedit ei domum, et cibos constituit, et terram delegavit.
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Et invenit Adad gratiam coram Pharaone valde, in tantum ut daret ei uxorem, sororem uxoris suæ germanam Taphnes reginæ.
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Genuitque ei soror Taphnes Genubath filium, et nutrivit eum Taphnes in domo Pharaonis: eratque Genubath habitans apud Pharaonem cum filiis eius.
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Cumque audisset Adad in Ægypto, dormisse David cum patribus suis, et mortuum esse Ioab principem militiæ, dixit Pharaoni: Dimitte me, ut vadam in terram meam.
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Dixitque ei Pharao: Qua enim re apud me indiges, ut quæras ire ad terram tuam? At ille respondit: Nulla: sed obsecro te ut dimittas me.
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Suscitavit quoque ei Deus adversarium Razon filium Eliada, qui fugerat Adarezer regem Soba dominum suum:
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et congregavit contra eum viros, et factus est princeps latronum cum interficeret eos David: abieruntque Damascum, et habitaverunt ibi, et constituerunt eum regem in Damasco,
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eratque adversarius Israeli cunctis diebus Salomonis: et hoc est malum Adad, et odium contra Israel, regnavitque in Syria.
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Ieroboam quoque filius Nabat, Ephrathæus, de Sareda, servus Salomonis, cuius mater erat nomine Sarva, mulier vidua: levavit manum contra regem.
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Et hæc est causa rebellionis adversus eum, quia Salomon ædificavit Mello, et coæquavit voraginem civitatis David patris sui.
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Erat autem Ieroboam vir fortis et potens: vidensque Salomon adolescentem bonæ indolis et industrium, constituerat eum præfectum super tributa universæ domus Ioseph.
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Factum est igitur in tempore illo, ut Ieroboam egrederetur de Ierusalem, et inveniret eum Ahias Silonites propheta in via, opertus pallio novo: erant autem duo tantum in agro.
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Apprehendensque Ahias pallium suum novum, quo coopertus erat, scidit in duodecim partes.
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Et ait ad Ieroboam: Tolle tibi decem scissuras: hæc enim dicit Dominus Deus Israel: Ecce ego scindam regnum de manu Salomonis, et dabo tibi decem tribus.
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Porro una tribus remanebit ei propter servum meum David, et Ierusalem civitatem, quam elegi ex omnibus tribubus Israel:
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eo quod dereliquerit me, et adoraverit Astarthen deam Sidoniorum, et Chamos deum Moab, et Moloch deum filiorum Ammon: et non ambulaverit in viis meis, ut faceret iustitiam coram me, et præcepta mea, et iudicia sicut David pater eius.
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Nec auferam omne regnum de manu eius, sed ducem ponam eum cunctis diebus vitæ suæ, propter David servum meum, quem elegi, qui custodivit mandata mea et præcepta mea.
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Auferam autem regnum de manu filii eius, et dabo tibi decem tribus:
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filio autem eius dabo tribum unam, ut remaneat lucerna David servo meo cunctis diebus coram me in Ierusalem civitate, quam elegi ut esset nomen meum ibi.
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Te autem assumam, et regnabis super omnia, quæ desiderat anima tua, erisque rex super Israel.
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Si igitur audieris omnia, quæ præcepero tibi, et ambulaveris in viis meis, et feceris quod rectum est coram me, custodiens mandata mea et præcepta mea, sicut fecit David servus meus: ero tecum, et ædificabo tibi domum fidelem, quomodo ædificavi David domum, et tradam tibi Israel:
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et affligam semen David super hoc, verumtamen non cunctis diebus.
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Voluit ergo Salomon interficere Ieroboam: qui surrexit, et aufugit in Ægyptum ad Sesac regem Ægypti, et fuit in Ægypto usque ad mortem Salomonis.
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Reliquum autem verborum Salomonis, et omnia quæ fecit, et sapientia eius: ecce universa scripta sunt in Libro verborum dierum Salomonis.
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Dies autem, quos regnavit Salomon in Ierusalem super omnem Israel, quadraginta anni sunt.
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Dormivitque Salomon cum patribus suis, et sepultus est in Civitate David patris sui, regnavitque Roboam filius eius pro eo.
ylt (ylt) - Bible.com YLT98 plain UTF-8
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And king Solomon hath loved many strange women, and the daughter of Pharaoh, females of Moab, Ammon, Edom, Zidon, <FI>and<Fi> of the Hittites,
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of the nations of which Jehovah said unto the sons of Israel, `Ye do not go in to them, and they do not go in to you; surely they turn aside your heart after their gods;' to them hath Solomon cleaved for love.
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And he hath women, princesses, seven hundred, and concubines three hundred; and his wives turn aside his heart.
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And it cometh to pass, at the time of the old age of Solomon, his wives have turned aside his heart after other gods, and his heart hath not been perfect with Jehovah his God, like the heart of David his father.
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And Solomon goeth after Ashtoreth god<FI> dess<Fi> of the Zidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites;
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and Solomon doth the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah, and hath not been fully after Jehovah, like David his father.
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Then doth Solomon build a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, in the hill that <FI>is<Fi> on the front of Jerusalem, and for Molech the abomination of the sons of Ammon;
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and so he hath done for all his strange women, who are perfuming and sacrificing to their gods.
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And Jehovah sheweth Himself angry with Solomon, for his heart hath turned aside from Jehovah, God of Israel, who had appeared unto him twice,
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and given a charge unto him concerning this thing, not to go after other gods; and he hath not kept that which Jehovah commanded,
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and Jehovah saith to Solomon, `Because that this hath been with thee, and thou hast not kept My covenant and My statutes that I charged upon thee, I surely rend the kingdom from thee, and have given it to thy servant.
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`Only, in thy days I do it not, for the sake of David thy father; out of the hand of thy son I rend it;
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only all the kingdom I do not rend away; one tribe I give to thy son, for the sake of David My servant, and for the sake of Jerusalem, that I have chosen.'
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And Jehovah raiseth up an adversary to Solomon, Hadad the Edomite; of the seed of the king <FI>is<Fi> he in Edom;
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and it cometh to pass, in David's being with Edom, in the going up of Joab head of the host to bury the slain, that he smiteth every male in Edom--
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for six months did Joab abide there, and all Israel, till the cutting off of every male in Edom--
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and Hadad fleeth, he and certain Edomites, of the servants of his father, with him, to go in to Egypt, and Hadad <FI>is<Fi> a little youth,
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and they rise out of Midian, and come into Paran, and take men with them out of Paran, and come in to Egypt, unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he giveth to him a house, and bread hath commanded for him, and land hath given to him.
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And Hadad findeth grace in the eyes of Pharaoh exceedingly, and he giveth to him a wife, the sister of his own wife, sister of Tahpenes the mistress;
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and the sister of Tahpenes beareth to him Genubath his son, and Tahpenes weaneth him within the house of Pharaoh, and Genubath is in the house of Pharaoh in the midst of the sons of Pharaoh.
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And Hadad hath heard in Egypt that David hath lain with his fathers, and that Joab head of the host is dead, and Hadad saith unto Pharaoh, `Send me away, and I go unto my land.'
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And Pharaoh saith to him, `But, what art thou lacking with me, that lo, thou art seeking to go unto thine own land?' and he saith, `Nay, but thou dost certainly send me away.'
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And God raiseth to him an adversary, Rezon son of Eliadah, who hath fled from Hadadezer king of Zobah, his lord,
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and gathereth unto himself men, and is head of a troop in David's slaying them, and they go to Damascus, and dwell in it, and reign in Damascus;
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and he is an adversary to Israel all the days of Solomon, (besides the evil that Hadad <FI>did<Fi> ), and he cutteth off in Israel, and reigneth over Aram.
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And Jeroboam son of Nebat, an Ephrathite of Zereda--the name of whose mother <FI>is<Fi> Zeruah, a widow woman--servant to Solomon, he also lifteth up a hand against the king;
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and this <FI>is<Fi> the thing <FI>for<Fi> which he lifted up a hand against the king: Solomon built Millo--he shut up the breach of the city of David his father,
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and the man Jeroboam <FI>is<Fi> mighty in valour, and Solomon seeth the young man that he is doing business, and appointeth him over all the burden of the house of Joseph.
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And it cometh to pass, at that time, that Jeroboam hath gone out from Jerusalem, and Ahijah the Shilonite, the prophet, findeth him in the way, and he is covering himself with a new garment; and both of them <FI>are<Fi> by themselves in a field,
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and Ahijah layeth hold on the new garment that <FI>is<Fi> on him, and rendeth it--twelve pieces,
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and saith to Jeroboam, `Take to thee ten pieces, for thus said Jehovah, God of Israel, lo, I am rending the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon, and have given to thee the ten tribes,
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and the one tribe he hath for My servant David's sake, and for Jerusalem's sake, the city which I have fixed on, out of all the tribes of Israel.
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`Because they have forsaken Me, and bow themselves to Ashtoreth, god<FI> dess<Fi> of the Zidonians, to Chemosh god of Moab, and to Milcom god of the sons of Ammon, and have not walked in My ways, to do that which <FI>is<Fi> right in Mine eyes, and My statutes and My judgments, like David his father.
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`And I do not take the whole of the kingdom out of his hand, for prince I make him all days of his life, for the sake of David My servant whom I chose, who kept My commands and My statutes;
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and I have taken the kingdom out of the hand of his son, and given it to thee--the ten tribes;
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and to his son I give one tribe, for there being a lamp to David My servant all the days before Me in Jerusalem, the city that I have chosen to Myself to put My name there.
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`And thee I take, and thou hast reigned over all that thy soul desireth, and thou hast been king over Israel;
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and it hath been, if thou dost hear all that I command thee, and hast walked in My ways, and done that which is right in Mine eyes, to keep My statutes and My commands, as did David My servant, that I have been with thee, and have built for thee a stedfast house, as I built for David, and have given to thee Israel,
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and I humble the seed of David for this; only, not all the days.'
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And Solomon seeketh to put Jeroboam to death, and Jeroboam riseth and fleeth to Egypt, unto Shishak king of Egypt, and he is in Egypt till the death of Solomon.
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And the rest of the matters of Solomon, and all that he did, and his wisdom, are they not written on the book of the matters of Solomon?
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And the days that Solomon hath reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel <FI>are<Fi> forty years,
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and Solomon lieth with his fathers, and is buried in the city of David his father, and reign doth Rehoboam his son in his stead.
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A long, long time ago, there was nothing at all - no earth, no sky, no animals, no people. It was all dark and empty. But God was there! God is so powerful that He can make anything just by speaking. So God said "Let there be light!" and BOOM! There was light everywhere! God saw that the light was beautiful and good. He called the light "day" and the darkness "night." This was the very first day when God started making our wonderful world!
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Before anything existed - no planets, stars, or life - God decided to create the universe. The earth started out as a dark, empty place covered with water. But God's Spirit was there, ready to bring order and beauty to everything. When God spoke and said "Let there be light," light immediately appeared because God's words have incredible power. God looked at the light and was pleased with what He had made. He organized time by separating light (day) from darkness (night), creating the first 24-hour period. This shows us that God is organized and purposeful in everything He does.
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Genesis 1:1-5 establishes fundamental theological truths about God and creation. The Hebrew word "bara" (created) indicates creation from nothing (ex nihilo), demonstrating God's absolute sovereignty and power. The phrase "without form and void" (tohu wa-bohu) describes a state of chaos that God transforms into order. The Spirit of God "hovering" or "brooding" over the waters suggests active, caring involvement in creation. The creation of light before the sun (created on day 4) indicates that God Himself is the ultimate source of light and energy. The establishment of day and night creates the framework of time, showing that God operates within orderly patterns while transcending them. This passage refutes both atheistic materialism and pantheism, establishing that God is both transcendent (separate from creation) and immanent (actively involved in it).