1 Kings 11:8-28
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Chapter 11
8And so he did for all his foreign wives, who made offerings and sacrificed to their gods.
9And the Lord was angry with Solomon, because his heart had turned away from the Lord, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice
10and had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not go after other gods. But he did not keep what the Lord commanded.
11Therefore the Lord said to Solomon, "Since this has been your practice and you have not kept my covenant and my statutes that I have commanded you, I will surely tear the kingdom from you and will give it to your servant.
12Yet for the sake of David your father I will not do it in your days, but I will tear it out of the hand of your son.
13However, I will not tear away all the kingdom, but I will give one tribe to your son, for the sake of David my servant and for the sake of Jerusalem that I have chosen."
14And the Lord raised up an adversary against Solomon, Hadad the Edomite. He was of the royal house in Edom.
15For when David was in Edom, and Joab the commander of the army went up to bury the slain, he struck down every male in Edom
16(for Joab and all Israel remained there six months, until he had cut off every male in Edom).
17But Hadad fled to Egypt, together with certain Edomites of his father 's servants, Hadad still being a little child.
18They set out from Midian and came to Paran and took men with them from Paran and came to Egypt, to Pharaoh king of Egypt, who gave him a house and assigned him an allowance of food and gave him land.
19And Hadad found great favor in the sight of Pharaoh, so that he gave him in marriage the sister of his own wife, the sister of Tahpenes the queen.
20And the sister of Tahpenes bore him Genubath his son, whom Tahpenes weaned in Pharaoh 's house. And Genubath was in Pharaoh 's house among the sons of Pharaoh.
21But when Hadad heard in Egypt that David slept with his fathers and that Joab the commander of the army was dead, Hadad said to Pharaoh, "Let me depart, that I may go to my own country."
22But Pharaoh said to him, "What have you lacked with me that you are now seeking to go to your own country?" And he said to him, "Only let me depart."
23God also raised up as an adversary to him, Rezon the son of Eliada, who had fled from his master Hadadezer king of Zobah.
24And he gathered men about him and became leader of a marauding band, after the killing by David. And they went to Damascus and lived there and made him king in Damascus.
25He was an adversary of Israel all the days of Solomon, doing harm as Hadad did. And he loathed Israel and reigned over Syria.
26Jeroboam the son of Nebat, an Ephraimite of Zeredah, a servant of Solomon, whose mother 's name was Zeruah, a widow, also lifted up his hand against the king.
27And this was the reason why he lifted up his hand against the king. Solomon built the Millo, and closed up the breach of the city of David his father.
28The man Jeroboam was very able, and when Solomon saw that the young man was industrious he gave him charge over all the forced labor of the house of Joseph.
