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1 Kings 11

Chapter 11

Solomon Turns from God

¹ Now ^(C1)King Solomon loved many foreign women along with the daughter of Pharaoh: Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, and Hittite women,² from the nations of which the LORD had said to the sons of Israel, "^(C1)You shall not ^(F1)associate with them, nor shall they ^(F1)associate with you; they will certainly turn your heart away ^(F2)to follow their gods." Solomon clung to these in love.^3 (C1)He had seven hundred wives, who were ^(F1)princesses, and three hundred concubines; and his wives turned his heart away.⁴ For when Solomon was old, his wives turned his heart away ^(F1)to follow other gods; and ^(C1)his heart was not ^(F2)wholly devoted to the LORD his God, as the heart of his father David had been.⁵ For Solomon became a follower of ^(C1)Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and of ^(F1)(C2)Milcom the abhorrent idol of the Ammonites.⁶ So Solomon did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, and did not follow the LORD fully, as his father David had done.⁷ Then Solomon built a high place for ^(C1)Chemosh, the abhorrent idol of Moab, on the mountain that is ^(F1)east of Jerusalem, and for ^(C2)Molech, the abhorrent idol of the sons of Ammon.⁸ He also did the same for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods.

⁹ Now ^(C1)the LORD was angry with Solomon ^(C2)because his heart had turned away from the LORD, the God of Israel, ^(C3)who had appeared to him twice,¹⁰ and ^(C1)had commanded him regarding this thing, that he was not to follow other gods; but he did not comply with what the LORD had commanded.¹¹ So the LORD said to Solomon, "Since ^(F1)you have done this, and you have not kept My covenant and My statutes, which I have commanded you, ^(C1)I will certainly tear the kingdom away from you, and will give it to your servant.¹² "However, I will not do it in your days, only for the sake of your father David; but I will tear it away from the hand of your son.¹³ "Yet ^(C1)I will not tear away all the kingdom, but ^(C2)I will give one tribe to your son for the sake of My servant David, and ^(C3)for the sake of Jerusalem, which I have chosen."

God Raises Adversaries

¹⁴ Then the LORD raised up an adversary against Solomon, Hadad the Edomite; he was of the ^(F1)royal line in Edom.¹⁵ For it came about, ^(C1)when David was in Edom and Joab the commander of the army had gone up to bury those killed in battle, and had ^(C2)struck and killed every male in Edom¹⁶ (for Joab and all Israel stayed there for six months, until he had eliminated every male in Edom),¹⁷ that Hadad fled ^(F1)to Egypt, he and certain Edomites of his father's servants with him, while Hadad was a young boy.¹⁸ They set out from Midian and came to ^(C1)Paran; and they took men with them from Paran and came to Egypt, to Pharaoh king of Egypt, who gave him a house and assigned him food and gave him land.¹⁹ Now Hadad found great favor in the sight of Pharaoh, so that he gave him in marriage the sister of his own wife, the sister of Tahpenes the queen.²⁰ And the sister of Tahpenes gave birth to his son Genubath, whom Tahpenes weaned in Pharaoh's house; and Genubath was in Pharaoh's house among the sons of Pharaoh.²¹ But ^(C1)when Hadad heard in Egypt that David ^(F1)lay down with his fathers and that Joab the commander of the army was dead, Hadad said to Pharaoh, "Let me go, so that I may go to my own country."²² However, Pharaoh said to him, "But what have you lacked with me that you are here, requesting to go to your own country?" And he answered, "Nothing; nevertheless you must let me go."

^23 (C1)God also raised up another adversary against him, Rezon the son of Eliada, who had fled from his master ^(C2)Hadadezer, king of Zobah.²⁴ And he gathered men to himself and became leader of a marauding band, ^(C1)after David killed those of Zobah; and they went to Damascus and stayed ^(F1)there, and reigned in Damascus.²⁵ So he was an adversary to Israel all the days of Solomon, along with the harm that Hadad inflicted; and he felt disgust for Israel and reigned over Aram.

²⁶ Then ^(C1)Jeroboam the son of Nebat, an Ephraimite of Zeredah, Solomon's servant, whose mother's name was Zeruah, a widow, ^(C2)also ^(F1)rebelled against the king.²⁷ Now this was the reason why he ^(F1)rebelled against the king: ^(C1)Solomon built the ^(F2)Millo, and closed up the breach of the city of his father David.²⁸ Now the man Jeroboam was a valiant warrior, and when ^(C1)Solomon saw that the young man was ^(F1)industrious, he appointed him over all the ^(F2)forced labor of the house of Joseph.²⁹ And it came about at that time, when Jeroboam went out of Jerusalem, that ^(C1)the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite found him on the road. Now ^(F1)Ahijah had clothed himself with a new cloak; and both of them were alone in the field.³⁰ Then ^(C1)Ahijah took hold of the new cloak which was on him and tore it into twelve pieces.³¹ And he said to Jeroboam, "Take for yourself ten pieces; for this is what the LORD, the God of Israel says: 'Behold, ^(C1)I am going to tear the kingdom away from the hand of Solomon and give you ten tribes³² (^(C1)but he shall have one tribe, for the sake of My servant David and for the sake of Jerusalem, ^(C2)the city which I have chosen from all the tribes of Israel),³³ because they have abandoned Me, and ^(C1)have worshiped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, ^(C2)Chemosh the god of Moab, and Milcom the god of the sons of Ammon; and they have not walked in My ways, doing what is right in My sight and keeping My statutes and My ordinances, as his father David did.³⁴ 'Nevertheless I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand, but I will make him ruler all the days of his life, for the sake of My servant David whom I chose, who kept My commandments and My statutes;³⁵ but ^(C1)I will take the kingdom from his son's hand and give it to you; that is, ten tribes.³⁶ 'But ^(C1)to his son I will give one tribe, ^(C2)so that My servant David may always have a lamp before Me in Jerusalem, ^(C1)the city where I have chosen for Myself to put My name.³⁷ 'However I will take you, and you shall reign over all that ^(F1)you desire, and you shall be king over Israel.³⁸ 'Then it shall be, that if you listen to all that I command you and walk in My ways, and do what is right in My sight by keeping My statutes and My commandments, as My servant David did, then ^(C1)I will be with you and ^(C2)build you an enduring house as I built for David, and I will give Israel to you.³⁹ 'So I will oppress the ^(F1)descendants of David for this, but not always.'"⁴⁰ Solomon sought therefore to put Jeroboam to death; but Jeroboam set out and fled to Egypt to ^(C1)Shishak king of Egypt, and he was in Egypt until the death of Solomon.

The Death of Solomon

^41 (C1)Now the rest of the acts of Solomon and whatever he did, and his wisdom, are they not written in the Book of the Acts of Solomon?⁴² So ^(C1)the time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel was forty years.⁴³ Then Solomon ^(F1)(C1)lay down with his fathers and was buried in the city of his father David, and his son ^(C2)Rehoboam reigned in his place.

Hosea 13

Chapter 13

Ephraim's Idolatry

^1 (C1)When Ephraim ^(F1)spoke, there was trembling.
He ^(C2)exalted himself in Israel,
But through ^(C3)Baal he incurred guilt and died.

² And now they sin more and more,
And make for themselves ^(C1)cast metal images,
Idols ^(F1)(C2)skillfully made from their silver,
All of them the ^(C3)work of craftsmen.
They say of them, "Let the ^(F2)people who sacrifice kiss the ^(C4)calves!"

³ Therefore they will be like the ^(C1)morning cloud
And like dew which ^(F1)soon disappears,
Like ^(C2)chaff which is blown away from the threshing floor,
And like ^(C3)smoke from a chimney.

⁴ Yet I have been the ^(C1)LORD your God
Since the land of Egypt;
And you were not to know ^(C2)any god except Me,
For there is no savior ^(C3)besides Me.

⁵ I ^(F1)(C1)cared for you in the wilderness,
^(C2)In the land of drought.

⁶ As they had their pasture, they became ^(C1)satisfied,
And as they became satisfied, their ^(C2)heart became proud;
Therefore they ^(C3)forgot Me.

⁷ So I will be ^(C1)like a lion to them;
Like a ^(C2)leopard I will ^(F1)lie in wait by the wayside.

⁸ I will confront them ^(C1)like a bear deprived of her cubs,
And I will tear open ^(F1)their chests;
I will also ^(C2)devour them there like a lioness,
As a wild animal would tear them to pieces.

^9 (F1)It is to your own destruction, Israel,
That you are ^(C1)against Me, against your ^(C2)help.

¹⁰ Where then is your ^(C1)king,
That he might save you in all your cities;
And your ^(C2)judges, to whom you said,
"Give me a king and princes"?

¹¹ I ^(C1)gave you a king in My anger,
And ^(C2)took him away in My wrath.

¹² The guilt of Ephraim is wrapped up;
His sin is ^(C1)stored up.

¹³ The pains of ^(C1)childbirth come on him;
He is ^(C2)not a wise son,
For ^(F1)it is not the time that he should ^(C3)delay at the opening of the womb.

¹⁴ Shall I ^(C1)ransom them from the ^(F1)power of Sheol?
Shall I redeem them from death?
^(C2)Death, where are your ^(F2)thorns?
Sheol, where is your sting?
^(C3)Compassion will be hidden from My sight.

¹⁵ Though he ^(C1)flourishes among the ^(F1)reeds,
An ^(C2)east wind will come,
The wind of the LORD coming up from the wilderness;
And his fountain will ^(C3)become dry
And his spring will dry up;
It will ^(C4)plunder his treasury of every precious article.

^16 (F1)Samaria will pay the penalty for her ^(C1)guilt,
Because she has ^(C2)rebelled against her God.
^(C3)They will fall by the ^(C4)sword,
Their children will be ^(F2)(C5)slaughtered,
And their pregnant ^(C6)women will be ripped open.

Mark 15:21-47