Solomon Is Led Astray From the Lord God |
1 Kings 11:1-43 1 Kings [in Smaller Chunks] |
King Solomon loved many strange women, [in addition to his wife,] the daughter of Pharaoh & Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Zidonian & Hittite women of the nations [that worship false gods] that the Lord said to the children [people] of Israel, You shall not be [intimate with] them. |
Neither shall they [be intimate with] you. For surely, they will turn away your heart after their [false] gods. Solomon [clung] to these [women] in love. [Solomon] had 700 wives & princesses & 300 [mistresses] & his wives [led Solomon’s heart astray] [after false gods]. |
His heart wasn’t [perfectly aligned] with the Lord his God, [like] David, his father’s heart was. For Solomon [followed] Ashtoreth, the [false] goddess of the Sidonians & after MiIcom, the abomination [& false god] of the Ammonites. |
Solomon did evil in the sight of the Lord & didn’t [fully follow] the Lord, [like] David, his father. Then, in the hill, [in front of] Jerusalem, Solomon built a high place [to worship the false god,] Chemosh, the abomination [& false god] of Moab. |
[He did the same] for Molech, the abomination [& false god] of the [people] of Ammon. [Solomon] did [similarly] for all his [foreign] wives, [who] burnt incense & sacrificed to their [false] gods. |
The Lord was angry with Solomon, because his heart [was led astray] from the Lord God of Israel, [who] had appeared to him twice & had [warned Solomon about] this, [so] he [wouldn’t] go after other gods [idols], but [Solomon] didn’t [keep to what] the Lord commanded. |
[Therefore,] the Lord said to Solomon, [Since,] you [have] done [this] & you haven’t kept My covenant [contract] & My [rules that] I have commanded you, I will surely [tear] the kingdom from you & give it to your servant. |
[For] your father, David’s sake, I won’t [do it during your life,] but I will [tear] it out of the hand of your son. [However,] I will not [tear] away all the kingdom, but will give 1 tribe to your son for David, My servant’s sake & for Jerusalem’s sake, which I have chosen. |
The Lord stirred up an adversary [against] Solomon, Hadad, the Edomite. He was of the king’s [descendants] in Edom. |
It [happened] when David was in Edom & Joab, the captain of the [army had] gone up to bury the [dead] after he had [killed] all the [men] in Edom, (for Joab had [remained] in Edom for 6 months, until all the males were cut off.) |
Hadad & his father’s servants fled with him to Egypt, [when] Hadad was [still] a little child. They [came] out of Midian & [went] to Paran & took men from Paran & [went] to Egypt, to Pharaoh, [Egypt’s] king, [who] gave him a house, land & appointed [food for him]. |
Hadad found great favor in [Pharaoh’s] sight. Pharaoh gave the sister of his own wife, Queen Tahpenes, to [Hadad to marry]. The sister of Tahpenes bore [Hadad] his son, Genubath, whom Tahpenes weaned in Pharaoh’s [palace]. |
Genubath was in Pharaoh’s household among the sons of Pharaoh. When Hadad heard [while] in Egypt, that David slept with his [forefathers] & Joab, the captain of the [army] was dead, Hadad said to Pharaoh, Let me [leave, so] I may go to my own country. |
Pharaoh [asked,] What have you lacked with me, [in] that you seek to go to your own country? [Hadad] answered, Nothing, [but] let me go [anyway]. The Lord [also] stirred up another adversary, Rezon, [Eliadah’s] son, [who] fled from his lord, Hadadezer, [Zobah’s] king. |
[Rezon] gathered [a group] of men & became [their] captain, when David [struck down those] of Zobah. [Rezon & his group] went to Damascus & [lived there] & [ruled] in Damascus. |
[Rezon] was an adversary of Israel all the days of Solomon, [in addition to] the [trouble] Hadad [caused]. [Hadad hated] Israel & [ruled] over Syria. Jeroboam, [Nebat’s] son, [rebelled against the king]. |
[Hadad was] an Eprathite of Zereda, whose mother’s name was Zeruah, a widow. This is the [reason Jeroboam rebelled] against the king. Solomon built a [terraced retaining wall] & repaired the [gaps in the city’s walls,] of David, his father. |
Jeroboam was a mighty man of [bravery] & Solomon [saw] he was industrious & made him ruler [in charge] of the house of Joseph. It [happened] when Jeroboam went out of Jerusalem, the prophet, Ahijah, the Shilonite, found him in the [road clothed] with a new garment. |
The 2 were alone in the field. Ahijah [grabbed] the new garment & [tore] it into 12 pieces. [Ahijah] said to Jeroboam, Take 10 pieces for [yourself, because] the Lord God of Israel [said, Look,] I will tear the kingdom from the hand of Solomon & will give 10 tribes to you. |
(But [Solomon] shall have 1 tribe for My servant, David’s sake, the city I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel:) Because they have [abandoned] Me & have worshiped Ashtoreth, the [false] goddess of the Zidonians, Chemosh, the [false] god of the Moabites & Milcom, the [false] god of the [people] of Ammon. |
They haven’t walked in [My] ways to do what is right in My eyes & to keep My [rules] & My judgments as David, his father. |
[But] I won’t take the whole kingdom out of his hand, but I will make him a [ruler] all the days of his life, for David, My servant’s sake, [whom] I chose, because he kept My commandments & My [rules]. |
But I will take the kingdom out of [Solomon’s] son’s hand & will give 10 tribes to you. I will give [Solomon’s] son 1 tribe, [so] David, My servant, may have a light always before Me in Jerusalem, the city I have chosen [for] Me to put My name there. |
I will take you & you shall be king over Israel & you shall [rule] according to all your [heart] desires. It shall [happen], if you will [listen] to all I command you & [you] walk in My ways & do what is right in My sight, to keep My [rules] & My commandments [like] David, My servant, did. |
I will be with you & build you a [secure] house, [like] I built for David & [I] will give Israel to you. I will afflict David’s [descendants,] but not forever. Solomon had [thought] to kill Jeroboam & he fled to Egypt & was in Egypt until Solomon’s death. |
Aren’t the rest of Solomon’s [actions] & all he did & his wisdom, written in the Book of Solomon? Solomon [ruled] in Jerusalem over all of Israel [for] 40 years. Solomon [died] & slept with his [forefathers] & was buried in the city of David, his father. Rehoboam, [Solomon’s] son [ruled] in his [place]. |