nsb - 1Kings:11:1-13

nsb@1Kings:11:1 @ Solomon loved many women. They were of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites.

nsb@1Kings:11:2 @ Jehovah warned the children of Israel about these nations. He said: »You are not to take wives from them and they are not to take wives from you. They will certainly turn your hearts to go after their gods.« Solomon loved his wives anyway.

nsb@1Kings:11:3 @ He had seven hundred wives, daughters of kings, and three hundred other wives. His wives influenced his heart to turn away.

nsb@1Kings:11:4 @ When Solomon was old he allowed his heart to be turned away to other gods by his wives. His heart was no longer true to Jehovah his God as the heart of his father David had been.

nsb@1Kings:11:5 @ Solomon went after Ashtoreth, the goddess of the Zidonians, and Milcom, the disgusting god of the Ammonites.

nsb@1Kings:11:6 @ Solomon did evil in the eyes of Jehovah. He did not walk in Jehovahs ways with all his heart as David his father did.

nsb@1Kings:11:7 @ Then Solomon put up a high place for Chemosh, the disgusting god of Moab, in the mountain near Jerusalem. And for Molech, the disgusting god worshipped by the children of Ammon.

nsb@1Kings:11:8 @ He did likewise for all his strange wives, who made offerings with burning of perfumes to their gods.

nsb@1Kings:11:9 @ Jehovah was angry with Solomon. This is because his heart turned away from Jehovah, the God of Israel, who had twice come to him in a vision.

nsb@1Kings:11:10 @ Jehovah had given him orders about this very thing that he was not to go after other gods. But he did not obey the orders of Jehovah.

nsb@1Kings:11:11 @ So Jehovah said to Solomon: »Because you have done this, and have not kept the agreement and laws I gave you, I will take the kingdom away from you by force and will give it to your servant.

nsb@1Kings:11:12 @ »I will not do it in your lifetime, because of your father David, but I will take it from your son.

nsb@1Kings:11:13 @ »Still I will not take the entire kingdom from him. I will give one tribe to your son, because of my servant David, and because of Jerusalem, the town of my selection.«