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* But king Solomon loved many strange women , beside the daughter of Pharaoh , women of the Moabites , ‘Ammonites , Edomites , Zidonians , and Hittites . * From the nations concerning which the Lord had said unto the children of Israel , Ye shall not go in among them , nor shall they come in among you ; surely they will turn away your heart after their gods : unto these Solomon did cleave to love them . * And he had seven hundred wives , princesses , and three hundred concubines : and his wives turned away his heart . * And it came to pass , at the time that Solomon was old , that his wives turned away his heart after other gods ; and his heart was not undivided with the Lord his God , like the heart of David his father . * And Solomon went after ‘Ashtoreth the divinity of the Zidonians , and after Milcom the abomination of the ‘Ammonites . * And Solomon did what is evil in the eyes of the Lord , and went not fully after the Lord , like David his father . * Then did Solomon build a high –place for Kemosh , the abomination of Moab , on the mount that is before Jerusalem , and for Molech , the abomination of the children of ‘Ammon . * And so did he for all his strange wives , who burnt incense and sacrificed unto their gods . * And the Lord was angry with Solomon ; because his heart was turned away from the Lord the God of Israel , who had appeared unto him twice ; * And had commanded him concerning this thing , that he should not go after other gods ; but he did not keep that which the Lord had commanded . * And the Lord said unto Solomon , Forasmuch as this is in thy mind , and thou hast not kept my covenant and my statutes , which I commanded concerning thee : I will surely rend the kingdom from thee , and will give it to thy servant . * Nevertheless in thy days will I not do it , for the sake of David thy father ; out of the hand of thy son will I rend it . * Still all the kingdom will I not rend away : one tribe will I give to thy son on account of David my servant , and on account of Jerusalem which I have chosen . * And the Lord stirred up an adversary unto Solomon , Hadad the Edomite : he was of the king ’s seed in Edom . * It came to pass , namely , when David was in Edom , when Joab the captain of the army was gone up to bury the slain , after he had smitten every male in Edom ; * (For six months did Joab remain there with all Israel , until he had cut off every male in Edom :) * That Hadad fled , he and certain Edomites of his father ’s servants with him , to go into Egypt ; but Hadad was then yet a young lad . * And they arose from Midian , and came to Paran ; and they took men with them from Paran , and came to Egypt , unto Pharaoh the king of Egypt ; who gave him a house , and decreed him a support , and gave him land . * And Hadad found great favor in the eyes of Pharaoh , so that he gave him for wife the sister of his own wife , the sister of Thachpeness the queen . * And the sister of Thachpeness bore him Genubath his son , whom Thachpeness brought up in Pharaoh ’s house ; and Genubath remained in Pharaoh ’s house among the sons of Pharaoh . * And when Hadad heard in Egypt that David slept with his fathers , and that Joab the captain of the army was dead : Hadad said to Pharaoh , Dismiss me , that I may go to my own country . * Then said Pharaoh unto him , But what dost thou lack with me , that , behold , thou seekest to go to thy own country ? And he answered , Nothing : nevertheless thou must let me go away . * And God stirred him up adversary , Rezon the son of Elyada ’, who had fled from Hadad ’ezer the king of Zobah his lord ; * And he gathered around him some men , and became captain over a band , when David slew those ; and they went to Damascus , and dwelt therein , and reigned in Damascus . * And he was an adversary to Israel all the days of Solomon , beside the mischief that Hadad did : and he abhorred Israel , and reigned over Syria . * Also Jerobo ’am the son of Nebat , an Ephrathite of Zeredah , the name of whose mother was Zeru ’ah , a widow woman , was a servant of Solomon , and he lifted up his hand against the king . * And this was the occasion that he lifted up his hand against the king : Solomon built up the Millo , and closed up the breach of the city of David his father . * And the man Jerobo ’am was a mighty man of valor : and Solomon seeing the young man that he was an industrious worker , he appointed him over all the charge of the house of Joseph . * And it came to pass at that time when Jerobo ’am went out of Jerusalem , that the prophet Achiyah the Shilonite found him on the way ; and he had clad himself with a new garment ; and these two were alone by themselves in the field ; * And Achiyah caught hold of the new garment that was on him , and rent it in twelve pieces ; * And he said to Jerobo ’am , Take thee ten pieces ; for thus hath said the Lord , the God of Israel , Behold , I will rend the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon , and I will give to thee the ten tribes ; * But the one tribe shall remain for him , on account of my servant David , and on account of Jerusalem , the city which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel ; * For the cause that they have forsaken me , and have bowed down to ‘Ashtoreth the divinity of the Zidonians , to Kemosh the god of Moab , and to Milcom the god of the children of ‘Ammon , and have not walked in my ways , to do what is right in my eyes , and my statutes and my ordinances , like David his father . * Nevertheless will I not take the whole kingdom out of his hand ; but I will let him remain prince all the days of his life for the sake of David my servant , whom I chose , who kept my commandments and my statutes ; * But I will take the kingdom out of the hand of his son , and I will give it unto thee , even the ten tribes . * And unto his son will I give one tribe ; so that there may remain a government for David my servant at all times before me in Jerusalem , the city which I have chosen for me , to put my name there . * But thee will I take , and thou shalt reign over all that thy soul may long for ; and thou shalt be king over Israel . * And it shall be , if thou wilt hearken unto all that I shall command thee , and wilt walk in my ways , and do what is right in my eyes , to keep my statutes and my commandments , as David my servant did : that I will be with thee , and build thee a permanent house , as I have built for David , and I will give Israel unto thee . * And I will afflict the seed of David for this ; but not for all times . * Solomon thereupon sought to put Jerobo ’am to death ; but Jerobo ’am arose , and fled into Egypt , unto Shishak the king of Egypt , and remained in Egypt until the death of Solomon . * And the rest of the acts of Solomon , and all that he did and his wisdom , behold , they are written in the book of the history of Solomon . * And the days that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel were forty years . * And Solomon slept with his fathers , and was buried in the city of David his father ; and Rehobo ’am his son became king in his stead .

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