1 Kings 11
1 and [the] king Solomon to love: lover woman foreign many and [obj] daughter Pharaoh Moabite Ammon Edomite Sidonian Hittite
King Solomon loved many foreign women. Besides Pharaoh's daughter, there were women from the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites.
2 from [the] nation which to say LORD to(wards) son: descendant/people Israel not to come (in): marry in/on/with them and they(masc.) not to come (in): marry in/on/with you surely to stretch [obj] heart your after God their in/on/with them to cleave Solomon to/for love
They were from the nations that the Lord had warned the Israelites, “You must not intermarry with them, for they will undoubtedly convince you to worship their gods.” Yet Solomon because of his love for women held on to them.
3 and to be to/for him woman: wife princess seven hundred and concubine three hundred and to stretch woman: wife his [obj] heart his
He had seven hundred wives of noble birth and three hundred concubines. His wives did convince him to turn away from the Lord.
4 and to be to/for time old age Solomon woman: wife his to stretch [obj] heart his after God another and not to be heart his complete with LORD God his like/as heart David father his
As Solomon grew old, his wives led him to follow other gods, and he did not commit himself wholeheartedly to the Lord as his father David had done.
5 and to go: follow Solomon after Ashtoreth God Sidonian and after Milcom abomination Ammon
Solomon worshiped Ashtoreth, goddess of the Sidonians, and Molech, vile god of the Ammonites.
6 and to make: do Solomon [the] bad: evil in/on/with eye: seeing LORD and not to fill after LORD like/as David father his
This was how Solomon did evil in the Lord's sight, and was not completely dedicated to the Lord as his father David was.
7 then to build Solomon high place to/for Chemosh abomination Moab in/on/with mountain: mount which upon face: east Jerusalem and to/for Molech abomination son: descendant/people Ammon
It was then that Solomon built a high place of worship for Chemosh, the vile god of the people of Moab, and for Molech, the vile god of the Ammonites, on a hill east of Jerusalem.
8 and so to make: do to/for all woman: wife his [the] foreign to offer: offer and to sacrifice to/for God their
He built places of worship for all his foreign wives where they burned incense and sacrificed to their gods.
9 and be angry LORD in/on/with Solomon for to stretch heart his from from with LORD God Israel [the] to see: see to(wards) him beat
The Lord became angry with Solomon because he had turned away from the Lord, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice.
10 and to command to(wards) him upon [the] word: thing [the] this to/for lest to go: follow after God another and not to keep: obey [obj] which to command LORD
The Lord had warned Solomon about this—that he should not worship other gods. But Solomon did not listen to the Lord's warning.
11 and to say LORD to/for Solomon because which to be this with you and not to keep: obey covenant my and statute my which to command upon you to tear to tear [obj] [the] kingdom from upon you and to give: give her to/for servant/slave your
So the Lord told him, “Since this is what you have done, and since you have not kept my agreement and my laws that I commanded, I will definitely take the kingdom away from you and give it to your servant.
12 surely in/on/with day your not to make: do her because David father your from hand: power son: child your to tear her
However, for the sake of your father David, I will not do this in your lifetime—I will take it away from your son.
13 except [obj] all [the] kingdom not to tear tribe one to give: give to/for son: child your because David servant/slave my and because Jerusalem which to choose
Even then I will not take away the whole kingdom. I will leave your son with one tribe for the sake of my servant David, and for the sake of my chosen city Jerusalem.”
14 and to arise: raise LORD Satan to/for Solomon [obj] Hadad [the] Edomite from seed: children [the] king he/she/it in/on/with Edom
Then the Lord encouraged Hadad the Edomite of Edom's royal family to oppose Solomon.
15 and to be in/on/with to be David [obj] Edom in/on/with to ascend: rise Joab ruler [the] army to/for to bury [obj] [the] slain: killed and to smite all male in/on/with Edom
Previously, when David was in Edom, Joab the commander of the Israelite army had gone to bury some of his soldiers who had been killed, and had slaughtered every male in Edom.
16 for six month to dwell there Joab and all Israel till to cut: eliminate all male in/on/with Edom
Joab and the whole Israelite army had spent six months there destroying them all.
17 and to flee Hadad he/she/it and human Edomite from servant/slave father his with him to/for to come (in): come Egypt and Hadad youth small
But Hadad and some Edomites who had been his father's officials had run away to Egypt—Hadad was just a boy at the time.
18 and to arise: rise from Midian and to come (in): come Paran and to take: take human with them from Paran and to come (in): come Egypt to(wards) Pharaoh king Egypt and to give: give to/for him house: home and food to say to/for him and land: country/planet to give: give to/for him
They left Midian and went to Paran. Then, along with some people from Paran, they went to Egypt, to Pharaoh king of Egypt. He provided Hadad with a house and food, and also assigned him land as a gift.
19 and to find Hadad favor in/on/with eye: seeing Pharaoh much and to give: give(marriage) to/for him woman: wife [obj] sister woman: wife his sister Tahpenes [the] queen
Pharaoh became very friendly with Hadad, and he gave him the sister of his own wife to marry, Queen Tahpenes' sister.
20 and to beget to/for him sister Tahpenes [obj] Genubath son: child his and to wean him Tahpenes in/on/with midst house: household Pharaoh and to be Genubath house: household Pharaoh in/on/with midst son: child Pharaoh
She gave birth to his son called Genubath. Tahpenes brought him up in Pharaoh's palace with Pharaoh's own children.
21 and Hadad to hear: hear in/on/with Egypt for to lie down: be dead David with father his and for to die Joab ruler [the] army and to say Hadad to(wards) Pharaoh to send: depart me and to go: went to(wards) land: country/planet my
However, when news reached Hadad in Egypt that both David and Joab, the commander of the army, had died, Hadad said to Pharaoh, “Let me leave and return to my own country.”
22 and to say to/for him Pharaoh for what? you(m. s.) lacking with me and look! you to seek to/for to go: went to(wards) land: country/planet your and to say not for to send: let go to send: let go me
Pharaoh asked him, “Is there anything that you have lacked here with me that now you want to go back to your own country?” “No, there's nothing,” Hadad replied, “but please just let me go home.”
23 and to arise: raise God to/for him Satan [obj] Rezon son: child Eliada which to flee from with Hadadezer king Zobah lord his
God also encouraged Rezon, son of Eliada, to oppose Solomon. He had run away from his master Hadadezer, king of Zobah. After David had destroyed Zobah's army,
24 and to gather upon him human and to be ruler band in/on/with to kill David [obj] them and to go: went Damascus and to dwell in/on/with her and to reign in/on/with Damascus
Rezon gathered around him a rebel band, and became their leader. They went and settled in Damascus, where they took over.
25 and to be Satan to/for Israel all day Solomon and with [the] distress: harm which Hadad and to loathe in/on/with Israel and to reign upon Syria
Rezon was Israel's enemy throughout Solomon's lifetime which added to the trouble Hadad caused. Rezon really hated Israel, and was the ruler of Aram.
26 and Jeroboam son: child Nebat Ephraimite from [the] Zeredah and name mother his Zeruah woman: wife widow servant/slave to/for Solomon and to exalt hand in/on/with king
In addition, Jeroboam, son of Nebat, rebelled against the king. One of Solomon's officials, he was an Ephraimite from Zeredah. His mother was a widow called Zeruah.
27 and this [the] word: because which to exalt hand in/on/with king Solomon to build [obj] [the] Millo to shut [obj] breach city David father his
This is why he rebelled against the king: Solomon had built the terraces and had closed the gap in the wall of the city of his father David.
28 and [the] man Jeroboam mighty man strength and to see: see Solomon [obj] [the] youth for to make: [do] work he/she/it and to reckon: overseer [obj] him to/for all burden house: household Joseph
Jeroboam was a man of ability, and when Solomon realized how successful he was in what he did, he placed him command of all the forced labor of the tribes of Joseph.
29 and to be in/on/with time [the] he/she/it and Jeroboam to come out: come from Jerusalem and to find [obj] him Ahijah [the] Shilonite [the] prophet in/on/with way: road and he/she/it to cover in/on/with garment new and two their to/for alone them in/on/with land: country
Around that time the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite met Jeroboam on the road as he was leaving Jerusalem.
30 and to capture Ahijah in/on/with garment [the] new which upon him and to tear her two ten rags
Ahijah had wrapped himself in a new cloak, and the two of them were by themselves in the countryside. Ahijah took the new cloak he was wearing and ripped it up into twelve pieces.
31 and to say to/for Jeroboam to take: take to/for you ten rags for thus to say LORD God Israel look! I to tear [obj] [the] kingdom from hand: power Solomon and to give: give to/for you [obj] ten [the] tribe
He said, “Jeroboam, take ten pieces. This is what the Lord God of Israel says. ‘Jeroboam, I am the Lord, the God of Israel, and I am going to take Solomon's kingdom from him and give you ten of the tribes.
32 and [the] tribe [the] one to be to/for him because servant/slave my David and because Jerusalem [the] city which to choose in/on/with her from all tribe Israel
One tribe will be left for the sake of my servant David and for the sake of Jerusalem, the city I chose from among all the tribes of Israel.
33 because which to leave: forsake me and to bow to/for Ashtoreth God Sidonian to/for Chemosh God Moab and to/for Milcom God son: descendant/people Ammon and not to go: walk in/on/with way: conduct my to/for to make: do [the] upright in/on/with eye: seeing my and statute my and justice: judgement my like/as David father his
This is because they have abandoned me and bowed down in worship of Ashtoreth, goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh, god of the Moabites, and Molech, god of the Ammonites. They have not followed my ways; they have not done what is right in my sight; they have not kept my commandments and laws as David, Solomon's father, did.
34 and not to take: take [obj] all [the] kingdom from hand: power his for leader to set: make him all day life his because David servant/slave my which to choose [obj] him which to keep: obey commandment my and statute my
Even so, I'm not going to take the whole kingdom from Solomon, because I made him ruler for his lifetime for the sake of my servant David. I chose him because he kept my commandments and laws.
35 and to take: take [the] kingship from hand: power son: child his and to give: give her to/for you [obj] ten [the] tribe
But I will take from his son's kingdom ten tribes and give them to you.
36 and to/for son: child his to give: give tribe one because to be lamp to/for David servant/slave my all [the] day: always to/for face: before my in/on/with Jerusalem [the] city which to choose to/for me to/for to set: put name my there
I will give his son one tribe, so that my servant David will always have a descendant like a lamp before me in Jerusalem, the city where I chose to be honored.
37 and [obj] you to take: take and to reign in/on/with all which to desire soul your and to be king upon Israel
I will take you, and you shall reign over everything that you want. You will be king over Israel.
38 and to be if to hear: hear [obj] all which to command you and to go: walk in/on/with way: conduct my and to make: do [the] upright in/on/with eye: appearance my to/for to keep: obey statute my and commandment my like/as as which to make: do David servant/slave my and to be with you and to build to/for you house: household be faithful like/as as which to build to/for David and to give: give to/for you [obj] Israel
If you accept everything that I command you, if you follow my ways, if you do what is right in my sight, keeping my laws and commandments as my servant David did, then I will be with you. I will set up for you a dynasty that lasts, just as I did for David, and I will give Israel to you.
39 and to afflict [obj] seed: children David because this surely not all [the] day: always
I will punish David's descendants because of this, but not forever.”
40 and to seek Solomon to/for to die [obj] Jeroboam and to arise: rise Jeroboam and to flee Egypt to(wards) Shishak king Egypt and to be in/on/with Egypt till death Solomon
So Solomon tried to kill Jeroboam. But Jeroboam ran away to Egypt, to Shishak king of Egypt. He remained there until Solomon's death.
41 and remainder word: deed Solomon and all which to make: do and wisdom his not they(masc.) to write upon scroll: book word: deed Solomon
The record of the rest of the acts of Solomon, including everything he did, and his wisdom, are written in the Book of the Acts of Solomon.
42 and [the] day which to reign Solomon in/on/with Jerusalem upon all Israel forty year
Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all of Israel for a total of forty years.
43 and to lie down: be dead Solomon with father his and to bury in/on/with city David father his and to reign Rehoboam son: child his underneath: instead him
Solomon died and was buried in the city of his father David. His son Rehoboam succeeded him as king.
