I Kings 11 · מלכים א

But king Shelomo loved many foreign women, together with the daughter of Par῾o, Mo᾽avite, ῾Ammonite, Edomite, Żidonian, and Ḥittite women;

of the nation concerning whom the Lord said to the children of Yisra᾽el, you shall not go in to them, neither shall they come in to you: for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods: Shelomo attached himself to these in love.

And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines: and his wives turned away his heart.

For it came to pass, when Shelomo was old, that his wives turned away his heart after other gods: and his heart was not perfect with the Lord his God, as was the heart of David his father.

For Shelomo went after ῾Ashtoret the goddess of the Żidonians, and after Milkom the abomination of the ῾Ammonites.

And Shelomo did evil in the sight of the Lord, and went not fully after the Lord, as did David his father.

Then did Shelomo build a high place for Kemosh, the abomination of Mo᾽av, in the hill that is before Yerushalayim, and for Molekh, the abomination of the children of ῾Ammon.

And likewise did he for all his foreign wives, who burnt incense and sacrificed to their gods.

And the Lord was angry with Shelomo, because his heart was turned from the Lord God of Yisra᾽el, who had twice appeared to him.

And had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not go after other gods: but he kept not that which the Lord commanded.

So that the Lord said to Shelomo, Since this is your mind, 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.

Yet in thy days I will not do it for David thy father’s sake: but I will rend it out of the hand of thy son.

Nevertheless, I will not rend away all the kingdom; but will give one tribe to thy son for David my servant’s sake, and for the sake of Yerushalayim which I have chosen.

And the Lord stirred up an adversary to Shelomo, Hadad the Edomit: he was of the king’s seed in Edom.

For it came to pass, when David was in Edom, and Yo᾽av the captain of the host was gone up to bury the slain, after he had smitten every male in Edom;

(for six months did Yo᾽av remain there with all Yisra᾽el, 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 Miżrayim; Hadad being yet a little child.

And they arose out of Midyan, and came to Paran: and they took men with them out of Paran, and they came to Miżrayim, to Par῾o, the king of Miżrayim; who gave him a house, and bread, and gave him land.

And Hadad found great favour in the sight of Par῾o, so that he gave him to wife the sister of his own wife, the sister of Taĥpenes the queen.

And the sister of Taĥpenes bore him Genuvat his son, whom Taĥpenes weaned in Par῾o’s house: and Genuvat was in Par῾o’s household among the sons of Par῾o.

And when Hadad heard in Miżrayim that David slept with his fathers, and that Yo᾽av the captain of the host was dead, Hadad said to Par῾o, Let me depart, that I may go to my own country.

Then Par῾o said to him, But what hast thou lacked with me, that, behold, thou seekest to go to thy own country? And he answered, Nothing: but let me go.

And God stirred him up another adversary, Rezon the son of Elyada, who fled from his lord Hadad῾ezer king of Żova:

and he gathered men to him, and became captain over a band, when David slew them of Żova: and they went to Dammeseq, and dwelt there, and reigned in Dammeseq.

And he was an adversary to Yisra᾽el all the days of Shelomo, besides the mischief that Hadad did: and he abhorred Yisra᾽el, and reigned over Aram.

And Yorov῾am the son of Nevat, an Efrati, of Żereda, Shelomo’s servant, whose mother’s name was Żeru῾a, a widow woman, he lifted up his hand against the king.

And this was the cause that he lifted up his hand against the king: Shelomo built the Millo, and repaired the breaches of the city of David his father.

And the man Yorov῾am was a mighty warrior: and Shelomo seeing the young man that he was industrious, he made him ruler over all the labour of the house of Yosef.

And it came to pass at that time when Yorov῾am went out of Yerushalayim, that the prophet Aĥiyya the Shiloni found him in the way; and he had clad himself with a new garment; and they two were alone in the field:

and Aĥiyya caught the new garment that was on him, and rent it in twelve pieces:

and he said to Yorov῾am, Take thee ten pieces: for thus says the Lord, the God of Yisra᾽el, Behold, I will rend the kingdom out of the hand of Shelomo, and will give ten tribes to thee:

(but he shall have one tribe for my servant David’s sake, and for Yerushalayim’s sake, the city which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Yisra᾽el:)

because they have forsaken me, and have worshipped ῾Ashtoret the goddess of the Żidonians, Kemosh the god of Mo᾽av, and Milkom the god of the children of ῾Ammon, and have not walked in my ways, to do that which is right in my eyes, and to keep my statutes and my judgments, as did David his father.

Yet I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand: but I will make him prince all the days of his life for David my servant’s sake, whom I chose, because he kept my commandments and my statutes:

but I will take the kingdom out of his son’s hand, and will give it to thee, that is the ten tribes.

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

And I will take thee, and thou shalt reign according to all that thy soul desires, and shalt be king over Yisra᾽el.

And it shall be, if thou wilt hearken to all that I command thee, and will walk in my ways, and do what is right in my sight, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as David my servant did; that I will be with thee, and build thee a sure house, as I built for David, and will give Yisra᾽el to thee.

And I will for this afflict the seed of David, but not for ever.

Shelomo sought therefore to kill Yorov῾am. And Yorov῾am arose, and fled to Miżrayim, to Shishaq king of Miżrayim, and was in Miżrayim until the death of Shelomo.

And the rest of the acts of Shelomo, and all that he did, and his wisdom, are they not written in the book of the acts of Shelomo?

And the time that Shelomo reigned in Yerushalayim over all Yisra᾽el was forty years.

And Shelomo slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David his father: and Reĥav῾am his son reigned in his stead.