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The Third
Book of Kings 11
And king Solomon loved many strange women besides the
daughter of Pharao, and women of Moab, and of Ammon,
and of Edom, and of Sidon, and of the Hethites:
Of the nations concerning which the Lord said to the
children of Israel: You shall not go in unto them, neither
shall any of them come in to yours: for they will most
certainly turn away your heart to follow their gods.
And to these was Solomon joined with a most ardent love.
And he had seven hundred wives as queens, and three
hundred concubines: and the women turned away his heart.
And when he was now old, his heart was turned away by
women to follow strange gods: and his heart was not
perfect with the Lord his God, as was the heart of David
his father.
But Solomon worshipped Astarthe the goddess of the Sidonians,
and Moloch the idol of the ammonites.
And Solomon did that which was net pleasing before the
Lord, and did not fully follow the Lord, as David his
father.
Then Solomon built a temple for Chamos the idol of Moab,
on the hill that is over against Jerusalem, and for
Moloch the idol of the children of Ammon.
And he did in this manner for all his wives that were
strangers, who burnt incense, and offered sacrifice
to their gods.
And the Lord was angry with Solomon, because his mind
was turned away from the Lord the God of Israel, who
had appeared to him twice,
And had commanded him concerning this thing, that he
should not follow strange gods: but he kept not the
things which the Lord commanded him.
The Lord therefore said to Solomon: Because thou hast
done this, and hast not kept my covenant, and my precepts,
which I have commanded thee, I will divide and rend
thy kingdom, and will give it to thy servant.
Nevertheless 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.
Neither will I take away the whole kingdom, but I will
give one tribe to thy son for the sake of David my servant,
and Jerusalem which I have chosen.
And the Lord raised up an adversary to Solomon, Adad
the Edomite of the king's seed, in Edom.
For when David was in Edom, and Joab the general of
the army was gone up to bury them that were slain, and
had killed every male in Edom,
(For Joab remained there six months with all Israel,
till he had slain every male in Edom,)
Then Adad fled, he and certain Edomites, of his father's
servants with him, to go into Egypt: and Adad was then
a little boy.
And they arose out of Madian, and came into Pharan,
and they took men with them from Pharan, and went into
Egypt to Pharao the king of Egypt: who gave him a house,
and appointed him victuals, and assigned him land.
And Adad found great favour before Pharao, insomuch
that he gave him to wife, the own sister of his wife
Taphnes the queen.
And the sister of Taphnes bore him his son Genubath,
and Taphnes brought him up in the house of Pharao: and
Genubath dwelt with Pharao among his children.
And when Adad heard in Egypt that David slept with his
fathers, and that Joab the general of the army was dead,
he add to Pharao: Let me depart, that I may go to my
own country.
And Pharao said to him: Why, what is wanting to thee
with me, that thou seekest to go to thy own country?
But he answered: Nothing: yet I beseech thee to let
me go.
God also raised up against him an adversary, Razon the
son of Eliada, 'who had fled from his master Adarezer
the king of Soba:
And he gathered men against him, and he became a captain
of robbers, when David slew them of Soba: and they went
to Damascus, and dwelt there, and they made him king
in Damascus.
And he was an adversary to Israel, all the days of Solomon:
and this is the evil of Adad, and his hatred against
Israel, and he reigned in Syria.
Jeroboam also the son of Nabat an Ephrathite of Sareda,
a servant of Solomon, whose mother was named Sarua,
a widow woman, lifted up his hand against the king.
And this is the cause of his rebellion against him,
for Solomon built Mello, and filled up the breach of
the city of David his father.
And Jeroboam was a valiant and mighty man: and Solomon
seeing him a young man ingenious and industrious, made
him chief over the tributes of all the house of Joseph.
So it came to paste at that time, that Jeroboam went
out of Jerusalem, and the prophet Ahias the Silonite,
clad with a new garment, found him in the way: and they
two were alone in the held.
And Ahias taking his new garment, wherewith he was clad,
divided it into twelve parts:
31And he said to Jeroboam: Take to thee ten pieces:
for thus saith the Lord the God of Israel: Behold I
will rend the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon, and
will give thee ten tribes.
But one tribe shall remain to him for the sake of my
servant David, and Jerusalem the city, which I have
chosen out of all the tribes of Israel:
Because he hath forsaken me, and hath adored Astarthe
the goddess of the Sidonians, and Chamos the god of
Moab, and Moloch the god of the children of Ammon: and
hath not walked in my ways, to do justice before me,
and to keep my precepts, and judgments as did David
his father.
Yet I will not take away all the 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, who
kept my commandments and my precepts.
But I will take away the kingdom out of his son's hand
and will give thee ten tribes:
And to his son I will give one tribe, that there may
remain a lamp for my servant David before me always
in Jerusalem the city which I have chosen, that my name
might be there.
And I will take thee, and thou shalt reign over all
that thy soul desireth, and thou shalt be king over
Israel.
If then thou wilt hearken to all that I shall command
thee, and wilt walk in my ways, and do what is right
before me, keeping my commandments and my precepts,
as David my servant did: I will be with thee, and will
build thee up a faithful house, as I built a house for
David, and I will deliver Israel to thee:
And I will for this afflict the seed of David, but yet
not for ever.
Solomon therefore sought to kill Jeroboam: but he arose,
and fled into Egypt to Sesac the king of Egypt, and
was in Egypt till the death of Solomon.
And the rest of the words of Solomon, and all that he
did, and his wisdom: behold they are all written in
the book of the words of the days of Solomon.
And the days that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over
all Israel, were forty years.
And Solomon slept with his fathers, and was buried in
the city of David his father, and Roboam his son reigned
in his stead. |
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