1 Kings 11 God Stirs Up Adversaries Against Solomon

 1 Kings 11

God Stirs Up Adversaries Against Solomon

14 Now the Lord raised up an adversary to Solomon, Hadad the Idumean, who was of the seed of the king of Edom.

15 Now it came to pass, when David was in Edom, that Joab the captain of the host went up to bury the slain, that he smote every male in Edom.

16 (For Joab dwelt there six months with all Israel, until he had destroyed every male in Edom.)

17 But Hadad fled, he and some of his father's servants, the Idumeans, with him, to go to Egypt; but Hadad was a young man.

18 And they arose from Midian, and came to Paran, and took men with them from Paran, and came to Egypt to Pharaoh king of Egypt; and he gave him a house, and promised him food, and gave him land.

19 And Hadad found great favor in the sight of Pharaoh, and he gave him his wife's sister, the sister of Tacpenes the queen.

20 And the sister of Tacpenes bore him her son Genubath, whom Tacpenes brought up in Pharaoh's house: and Genubath was in Pharaoh's house among the sons of Pharaoh.

21 And when Hadad heard in Egypt that David had slept with his fathers, and that Joab the captain of the host was dead, Hadad said to Pharaoh, Send me away, that I may go to my land.

22 And Pharaoh said to him, What want have you with me, that lo, you seek to go to your own land? And he said, No; but send me away nevertheless.

23 And God raised up another adversary for him, Rezon the son of Eliada, who had fled from his master Hadadezer king of Zobah.

 24 He gathered men against him and was captain of a band of men, when David slew them. They went to Damascus and lived there and reigned in Damascus.

 25 He was an adversary to Israel all the days of Solomon, besides the evil that Hadad did, for he hated Israel and reigned over Syria. 

26 Jeroboam the son of Nebat, an Ephrathite from Zeredah, Solomon's servant (whose mother's name was Zeruah), was a widow. 

27 And this was the reason why he raised his hand against the king: Solomon had built Millo and had closed up the gates of the city of David his father.

 28 Now Jeroboam was a mighty man of valor. and Solomon saw the young man that he was industrious, and he put him in charge of all the house of Joseph.

29 At that time, when Jeroboam went out of Jerusalem, the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite found him on the road, and he had put on a new garment, and the two of them were alone in the field.

30 Then Ahijah took hold of the new garment that was on him and tore it into twelve pieces.

31 And he said to Jeroboam, “Take the ten pieces for yourself, for thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: ‘Behold, I will tear the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon and give the ten tribes to you.

32 But he will have one tribe for the sake of David my servant and for the sake of Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel.

33 Because they have forsaken me and worshiped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Milcom the god of the Ammonites, and have not walked in my ways to do what is right in my eyes, even my statutes and my ordinances, as David their father did.

34 However, I will not take anything of the kingdom out of his hand, but I will make him prince all the days of his life for the sake of David my servant, whom I chose, who kept my commandments and my statutes.

35 But I will take the kingdom out of his son's hand and give it to you, its ten tribes.

36 And I will give one tribe to his son, so that David my servant may always have a lamp before me in Jerusalem, the city I chose to put my name there.

37 And I will take you, and you shall reign over all that your soul desires; and you shall be king over Israel.

38 And it shall come to pass, if you will hearken to all that I command you, and walk in my ways, and do that which is right in my sight, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as my servant David did, that I will be with you, and will build you a sure house, as I built David, and will give Israel to you.

39 And I will afflict the seed of David therefore, yet not for ever.

40 Therefore Solomon sought to kill Jeroboam: but Jeroboam arose, and fled to Egypt, to Shishak king of Egypt: and he was in Egypt until Solomon died.