1Kings:11:11-29-38

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* Wherefore the LORD said unto Solomon , Forasmuch as this is done of thee , and thou hast not kept my covenant and my statutes , which I have commanded thee , I will surely rend the kingdom from thee , and will give it to thy servant . * Notwithstanding in thy days I will not do it for David thy fathers sake : but I will rend it out of the hand of thy son . * Howbeit I will not rend away all the kingdom ; but will give one tribe to thy son for David my servants sake , and for Jerusalems sake which I have chosen . * And the LORD stirred up an adversary unto Solomon , Hadad the Edomite : he was of the kings seed in Edom . * For it came to pass , when David was in Edom , and Joab the captain of the host 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 Yisra #el #, until he had cut off every male in Edom : ) * That Hadad fled , he and certain Edomites of his fathers servants with him , to go into Egypt ; Hadad being yet a little child na #ar #. * And they arose out of Midian , and came to Paran Pa #ran #: and they took men with them out of Paran Pa #ran #, and they came to Egypt , unto Pharaoh king of Egypt ; which gave him an house , and appointed him victuals , and gave him land . * And Hadad found great favour in the sight of Pharaoh Par #oh #, so that he gave him to wife the sister of his own wife , the sister of Tahpenes the queen . * And the sister of Tahpenes bare him Genubath his son , whom Tahpenes weaned in Pharaohs house : and Genubath was in Pharaohs household among the sons of Pharaoh Par #oh #. * And when Hadad heard in Egypt that David slept with his fathers , and that Joab the captain of the host was dead , Hadad said to Pharaoh Par #oh #, Let me depart , that I may go to mine own country . * Then Pharaoh said unto him , But what hast thou lacked with me , that , behold , thou seekest to go to thine own country ? And he answered , Nothing : howbeit let me go in any wise . * And God stirred him up another adversary , Rezon the son of Eliadah , which fled from his lord Hadadezer king of Zobah : * And he gathered men unto him , and became captain over a band , when David slew them of Zobah : 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 Yisra #el #, and reigned over Syria . * And Jeroboam the son of Nebat , an Ephrathite of Zereda , Solomons servant , whose mothers name was Zeruah Ts @ruw #ah #, a widow woman , even he lifted up his hand against the king . * And this was the cause that he lifted up his hand against the king : Solomon built Millo , and repaired the breaches of the city of David his father . * And the man Jeroboam was a mighty man of valour : and Solomon seeing the young man that he was industrious # m @la #kah #, he made him ruler over all the charge of the house of Joseph . * And it came to pass at that time when Jeroboam went out of Jerusalem , that 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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