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* And king Solomon loved many foreign women , even the daughter of Pharaoh , Moabites , Ammonites , Edomites , Sidonians , Hittites ; * of the nations which Jehovah said to the sons of Israel , You shall not go in to them , and they shall not go in to you ; surely they shall turn aside your heart after their gods ; Solomon clung to these in love . * And he had seven hundred wives , princesses , and three hundred concubines ; and his wives turned away his heart . * And it happened , at the time Solomon was old , his wives turned away his heart after other gods , and his heart was not perfect with Jehovah his God , like the heart of his father David . * And Solomon went after Ashtoreth , goddess of the Sidonians , and after Milcom , the abomination of the Ammonites ; * and Solomon did evil in the sight of Jehovah , and did not go fully after Jehovah like his father David . * Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh , the abomination of Moab , in the hill that is before Jerusalem , and for Molech , the abomination of the sons of Ammon ; * and so he did for all his foreign wives , who burnt incense and sacrificed to their gods . * And Jehovah was angry with Solomon , for his heart had bent away from Jehovah , God of Israel who had appeared to him twice , * and had given a charge to him concerning this thing , not to go after other gods ; and he did not keep that which Jehovah commanded . * And Jehovah said to Solomon , Because this has been done by you , and you have not kept My covenant and My statutes that I charged on you , I shall surely tear the kingdom from you and shall give it to your servant . * Only , I will not do it in your days , for the sake of your father David ; I shall tear it out of your son 's hand . * Only I will not tear away all the kingdom ; I will give one tribe to your son for my servant David 's sake , and for the sake of Jerusalem that I have chosen . * And it happened , Jehovah raised an adversary to Solomon , Hadad the Edomite ; he was of the seed of the king in Edom . * And it happened when David was in Edom , and Joab the commander of the army had gone up to bury the slain , after he had stricken every male in Edom ; * Joab and all Israel remained there six months until every male in Edom was cut off . * And Hadad fled , he and certain Edomites of his father 's servants with him , to go into Egypt ; and Hadad was a little child . * And they rose up out of Midian and came to Paran , and they took men with them out of Paran and came into Egypt , to Pharaoh the king of Egypt . And he gave him a house and commanded bread for him , and gave land to him . * And Hadad found much favor in the eyes of Pharaoh , and he gave him a wife , the sister of his own wife , the sister of Tahpenes the queen . * And the sister of Tahpenes bore him a son , Genubath , and Tahpenes weaned him in Pharaoh 's house among Pharaoh 's sons . * And Hadad had heard in Egypt that David had slept with his fathers , and that Joab the commander of the army was dead . And Hadad said to Pharaoh , Send me away and I will go to my land . * And Pharaoh said to him , But what are you lacking with me , that , lo , you are seeking to go to your land ? And he said , Nothing . However , you shall certainly send me away . * And God raised up an adversary to him , Rezon the son of Eliadah , who fled from his lord Hadadezer the king of Zobah . * And he gathered men to himself , and was head of a troop when David killed them . And they went to Damascus and lived in it , and reigned in Damascus . * And he was an adversary to Israel all the days of Solomon , besides the evil that Hadad did ; and he despised Israel and reigned over Syria . * And Jeroboam the son of Nebat , an Ephrathite of Zereda , a servant of Solomon (and his mother 's name was Zeruah , a widow woman ) he also lifted up a hand against the king . * And this was the thing for which he lifted up his hand against the king : Solomon built Millo , repairing the breaks of the city of his father David . * And the man Jeroboam was a mighty warrior . And Solomon saw the young man , that he was doing work . And he appointed him to all the burden of the house of Joseph . * And at that time it happened that Jeroboam had gone out from Jerusalem , and Ahijah the Shilonite , the prophet , found him in the way . And he covered himself with a new garment , and both of them were by themselves in a field . * And Ahijah laid hold on the new garment on him and tore it into twelve pieces . * And he said to Jeroboam , Take ten pieces for yourself . For so says Jehovah , God of Israel , Behold , I am tearing the kingdom from the hand of Solomon and giving to you the ten tribes . * And he shall have the 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 . * Because they have forsaken Me , and bow themselves to Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians , to Chemosh the god of Moab , to Milcom the god of the sons of Ammon ; and have not walked in My ways , to do the right in My eyes , and My statutes and My judgments , as his father David did . * But I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand , but I will make him ruler all the days of his life , for My servant David 's sake , whom I chose , because he kept My commands and My statutes . * But I will take the kingdom out of his son 's hand , and will give it to you , ten tribes . * And I will give one tribe to his son , that there may be a lamp to My servant David before Me all the days in Jerusalem the city that I have chosen to Myself , to put My name there . * And I will take you , and you shall reign according to all that your soul desires , and shall be king over Israel . * And it shall be , if you shall hear all that I command you , and shall walk in My ways , and do that which is right in My eyes , to keep My statutes and My commands , as My servant David did , then I shall be with you and shall build a sure house for you , as I built for David , and shall give Israel to you . * And for this I will humble the seed of David ; but not forever . * And Solomon sought to put Jeroboam to death , and Jeroboam rose up and fled to Egypt , to Shishak the king of Egypt ; and he was in Egypt until the death of Solomon . * And the rest of the matters of Solomon , and all that he did , and his wisdom , are they not written in the Book of the Acts of Solomon ? * And the days that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel were forty years ; * and Solomon lay with his fathers and was buried in the city of his father David ; and his son Rehoboam reigned in his place .

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