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Complete Jewish Bible

1 Kings 11:30

Achiyah took hold of his new cloak that he was wearing and tore it into twelve pieces.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Ahijah;   Backsliders;   Canaan;   Jeroboam;   Parables;   Promotion;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Hyke or Upper Garment;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Ahijah;   Government;   Israel;   Jeroboam;   Judah, tribe and kingdom;   Prophecy, prophet;   Solomon;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Kings, First and Second, Theology of;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Jeroboam;   Solomon;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Israel;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Ahiah;   Ahijah;   Divided Kingdom;   High Place;   Jeroboam;   Kings, 1 and 2;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Israel;   Solomon;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Coat (2);   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Ahijah ;   Jeroboam (1) ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Jeroboam;   Kings;   Solomon;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Ahi'ah;   Jerobo'am;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Jeroboam;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Kingdom of Israel;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Ahijah;   Jeroboam;   Piece;   Rag;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Ahijah;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Kings, Books of;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Then Ahijah took hold of the new cloak he had on, tore it into twelve pieces,
Hebrew Names Version
Achiyah laid hold of the new garment that was on him, and tore it in twelve pieces.
King James Version
And Ahijah caught the new garment that was on him, and rent it in twelve pieces:
English Standard Version
Then Ahijah laid hold of the new garment that was on him, and tore it into twelve pieces.
New Century Version
Ahijah took his new coat and tore it into twelve pieces.
New English Translation
and he grabbed the robe and tore it into twelve pieces.
Amplified Bible
Then Ahijah took hold of the new cloak which he was wearing and tore it into twelve pieces.
New American Standard Bible
Then Ahijah took hold of the new cloak which was on him and tore it into twelve pieces.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Then Ahiiah caught the newe garment that was on him, and rent it in twelue pieces,
Legacy Standard Bible
Then Ahijah took hold of the new cloak which was on him and tore it into twelve pieces.
Darby Translation
Then Ahijah seized the new garment that was on him, and rent it in twelve pieces;
Easy-to-Read Version
Ahijah took his new coat and tore it into twelve pieces.
George Lamsa Translation
And Ahijah caught the new garment that was on him, and tore it into twelve pieces;
Good News Translation
Ahijah took off the new robe he was wearing, tore it into twelve pieces,
Lexham English Bible
Ahijah took hold of the new cloak which was on him and tore it into twelve pieces.
Literal Translation
And Ahijah laid hold on the new garment on him and tore it into twelve pieces.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And Ahia toke holde of the new cloke yt he had on, and rente the same in to twolue peces,
American Standard Version
And Ahijah laid hold of the new garment that was on him, and rent it in twelve pieces.
Bible in Basic English
And Ahijah took his new robe in his hands, parting it violently into twelve.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Ahia caught the newe mantel that was on him, & rent it in twelue peeces,
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And Ahijah laid hold of the new garment that was on him, and rent it in twelve pieces.
King James Version (1611)
And Ahiiah caught the new garment that was on him, and rent it in twelue pieces.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And Achia laid hold of his new garment that was upon him, and tore it into twelve pieces:
English Revised Version
And Ahijah laid hold of the new garment that was on him, and rent it in twelve pieces.
Berean Standard Bible
And Ahijah took hold of the new cloak he was wearing, tore it into twelve pieces,
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And Ahias took his newe mentil, with which he was hilid, and kittide in to twelue partis;
Young's Literal Translation
and Ahijah layeth hold on the new garment that [is] on him, and rendeth it -- twelve pieces,
Update Bible Version
And Ahijah laid hold of the new garment that was on him, and rent it in twelve pieces.
Webster's Bible Translation
And Ahijah caught the new garment that [was] on him, and rent it [in] twelve pieces:
World English Bible
Ahijah laid hold of the new garment that was on him, and tore it in twelve pieces.
New King James Version
Then Ahijah took hold of the new garment that was on him, and tore it into twelve pieces.
New Living Translation
and Ahijah took hold of the new cloak he was wearing and tore it into twelve pieces.
New Life Bible
Then Ahijah took hold of his new coat and tore it into twelve pieces.
New Revised Standard
when Ahijah laid hold of the new garment he was wearing and tore it into twelve pieces.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then Ahijah laid hold of the new mantle, that was upon him, - and rent it into twelve pieces;
Douay-Rheims Bible
And Ahias taking his new garment, wherewith he was clad, divided it into twelve parts:
Revised Standard Version
Then Ahi'jah laid hold of the new garment that was on him, and tore it into twelve pieces.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then Ahijah took hold of the new cloak which was on him and tore it into twelve pieces.

Contextual Overview

26 Also Yarov‘am the son of N'vat, an Efrati from Tz'redah, whose mother's name was Tz'ru‘ah, one of Shlomo's servants, rebelled against the king. 27 Here is the reason he rebelled against the king: Shlomo was building the Millo and closing the breach in [the wall of] the City of David his father. 28 Now this Yarov‘am was a strong, energetic man; and Shlomo, seeing how serious the young man was, made him supervisor over all the work being done by the tribe of Yosef. 29 Once, during this period, when Yarov‘am had gone out of Yerushalayim, the prophet Achiyah from Shiloh spotted him traveling. Achiyah was wearing a new cloak, and the two of them were alone in open country. 30 Achiyah took hold of his new cloak that he was wearing and tore it into twelve pieces. 31 Then he said to Yarov‘am, "Take ten pieces for yourself! For here is what Adonai the God of Isra'el says: ‘I am going to tear the kingdom out of Shlomo's hand, and I will give ten tribes to you. 32 But he will keep one tribe for the sake of my servant David and for the sake of Yerushalayim, the city I have chosen from all the tribes of Isra'el. 33 I will do this because they have abandoned me and worshipped ‘Ashtoret the goddess of the Tzidoni, K'mosh the god of Mo'av and Milkom the god of the people of ‘Amon. They haven't lived according to my ways, so that they could do what was right in my view and obey my regulations and rulings, as did David his father. 34 Nevertheless, I will not take the entire kingdom away from him; but I will make him prince as long as he lives, for the sake of David my servant, whom I chose, because he obeyed my mitzvot and regulations. 35 However, I will take the kingdom away from his son and give ten tribes of it to you.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

rent it: 1 Samuel 15:27, 1 Samuel 15:28, 1 Samuel 24:4, 1 Samuel 24:5

Reciprocal: Exodus 24:4 - according 1 Kings 14:8 - rent Jeremiah 27:2 - put Ezekiel 4:1 - take

Cross-References

Genesis 11:1
(S: vii) The whole earth used the same language, the same words.
Genesis 11:2
It came about that as they traveled from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shin‘ar and lived there.
Genesis 11:3
They said to one another, "Come, let's make bricks and bake them in the fire." So they had bricks for building-stone and clay for mortar.
Genesis 11:11
After Arpakhshad was born, Shem lived another 500 years and had sons and daughters.
Genesis 11:12
Arpakhshad lived thirty-five years and fathered Shelach.
Genesis 25:21
Yitz'chak prayed to Adonai on behalf of his wife, because she was childless. Adonai heeded his prayer, and Rivkah became pregnant.
Genesis 29:31
Adonai saw that Le'ah was unloved, so he made her fertile, while Rachel remained childless.
Judges 13:2
There was a man from Tzor‘ah from the family of Dan, whose name was Manoach; his wife was barren, childless.
1 Samuel 1:2
He had two wives, one named Hannah and the other P'ninah. P'ninah had children, but Hannah had no children.
Psalms 113:9
He causes the childless woman to live at home happily as a mother of children. Halleluyah!

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Ahijah caught the new garment that was on him,.... This looks as if it was Jeroboam's garment, having got a new one to appear before the king in; though the sense may be this, that the prophet took hold of his own garment that was upon himself:

and rent it in twelve pieces; as symbolical of the twelve tribes of Israel.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The first instance of the “acted parable.” Generally this mode was adopted upon express divine command (see Jeremiah 13:1-11; Ezekiel 3:1-3). A connection may be traced between the type selected and the words of the announcement to Solomon (1 Kings 11:11-13. Compare 1 Samuel 15:26-28).


 
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