Nevertheless, I will not do it in your days, for David your father’s sake; but I will tear it out of your son’s hand.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
1 Kings 11:12 in context
1 Kings 11:9–15
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The LORD was angry with Solomon, because his heart was turned away from the LORD, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice,
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and had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not go after other gods; but he didn’t keep that which the LORD commanded.
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Therefore the LORD said to Solomon, “Because this is done by you, and you have not kept my covenant and my statutes, which I have commanded you, I will surely tear the kingdom from you, and will give it to your servant.
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Nevertheless, I will not do it in your days, for David your father’s sake; but I will tear it out of your son ’s hand.
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However, I will not tear away all the kingdom; but I will give one tribe to your son, for David my servant’s sake, and for Jerusalem’s sake which I have chosen.”
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The LORD raised up an adversary to Solomon: Hadad the Edomite. He was one of the king’s offspring in Edom.
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For when David was in Edom, and Joab the captain of the army had gone up to bury the slain, and had struck every male in Edom
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