OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 37

1 Kings 11:37

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I will take you, and you shall reign according to all that your soul desires, and shall be king over Israel.

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1 Kings 11:34–40

34

“‘However, 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, who kept my commandments and my statutes,

35

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

36

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

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

38

It shall be, if you will listen to all that I command you, and will walk in my ways, and do that which is right in my eyes, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as David my servant did, that I will be with you, and will build you a sure house, as I built for David, and will give Israel to you.

39

I will afflict the offspring of David for this, but not forever.’”

40

Therefore Solomon sought to kill Jeroboam, but Jeroboam arose and fled into Egypt, to Shishak king of Egypt, and was in Egypt until the death of Solomon.

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