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Text -- 1 Kings 11:1-25 (NET)

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The Lord Punishes Solomon for Idolatry
11:1 King Solomon fell in love with many foreign women (besides Pharaoh’s daughter), including Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites. 11:2 They came from nations about which the Lord had warned the Israelites, “You must not establish friendly relations with them! If you do, they will surely shift your allegiance to their gods.” But Solomon was irresistibly attracted to them. 11:3 He had 700 royal wives and 300 concubines; his wives had a powerful influence over him. 11:4 When Solomon became old, his wives shifted his allegiance to other gods; he was not wholeheartedly devoted to the Lord his God, as his father David had been. 11:5 Solomon worshiped the Sidonian goddess Astarte and the detestable Ammonite god Milcom. 11:6 Solomon did evil in the Lord’s sight; he did not remain loyal to the Lord, like his father David had. 11:7 Furthermore, on the hill east of Jerusalem Solomon built a high place for the detestable Moabite god Chemosh and for the detestable Ammonite god Milcom. 11:8 He built high places for all his foreign wives so they could burn incense and make sacrifices to their gods. 11:9 The Lord was angry with Solomon because he had shifted his allegiance away from the Lord, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him on two occasions 11:10 and had warned him about this very thing, so that he would not follow other gods. But he did not obey the Lord’s command. 11:11 So the Lord said to Solomon, “Because you insist on doing these things and have not kept the covenantal rules I gave you, I will surely tear the kingdom away from you and give it to your servant. 11:12 However, for your father David’s sake I will not do this while you are alive. I will tear it away from your son’s hand instead. 11:13 But I will not tear away the entire kingdom; I will leave your son one tribe for my servant David’s sake and for the sake of my chosen city Jerusalem.” 11:14 The Lord brought against Solomon an enemy, Hadad the Edomite, a descendant of the Edomite king. 11:15 During David’s campaign against Edom, Joab, the commander of the army, while on a mission to bury the dead, killed every male in Edom. 11:16 For six months Joab and the entire Israelite army stayed there until they had exterminated every male in Edom. 11:17 Hadad, who was only a small boy at the time, escaped with some of his father’s Edomite servants and headed for Egypt. 11:18 They went from Midian to Paran; they took some men from Paran and went to Egypt. Pharaoh, king of Egypt, supplied him with a house and food and even assigned him some land. 11:19 Pharaoh liked Hadad so well he gave him his sister-in-law (Queen Tahpenes’ sister) as a wife. 11:20 Tahpenes’ sister gave birth to his son, named Genubath. Tahpenes raised him in Pharaoh’s palace; Genubath grew up in Pharaoh’s palace among Pharaoh’s sons. 11:21 While in Egypt Hadad heard that David had passed away and that Joab, the commander of the army, was dead. So Hadad asked Pharaoh, “Give me permission to leave so I can return to my homeland.” 11:22 Pharaoh said to him, “What do you lack here that makes you want to go to your homeland?” Hadad replied, “Nothing, but please give me permission to leave.” 11:23 God also brought against Solomon another enemy, Rezon son of Eliada who had run away from his master, King Hadadezer of Zobah. 11:24 He gathered some men and organized a raiding band. When David tried to kill them, they went to Damascus, where they settled down and gained control of the city. 11:25 He was Israel’s enemy throughout Solomon’s reign and, like Hadad, caused trouble. He loathed Israel and ruled over Syria.
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics

Names, People and Places:
 · Ammonite the tribe/nation of people descended from Ben-Ammi, Lot's son,Territory of the tribe/nation of Ammon
 · Ammonites the tribe/nation of people descended from Ben-Ammi, Lot's son,Territory of the tribe/nation of Ammon
 · Ashtoreth a goddess
 · Chemosh a pagan god; the national god of Moab
 · Damascus a city-state in Syria, located near Mt. Hermon at the edge of the Syrian desert (OS),a town near Mt. Hermon at the edge of the Syrian desert (OS)
 · David a son of Jesse of Judah; king of Israel,son of Jesse of Judah; king of Israel
 · Edom resident(s) of the region of Edom
 · Edomite resident(s) of the region of Edom
 · Egypt descendants of Mizraim
 · Eliada father of Rezon, king of Damascus in Solomon's time,son of David born in Jerusalem,a Benjamite commander under Jehoshaphat
 · Genubath son of Edomite prince Hadad and princess Tahpenes of Egypt
 · Hadad eighth and last king of Edom
 · Hadadezer son of Rehob; King of Zobah defeated by David
 · Hittite a person/people living in the land of Syro-Palestine
 · Israel a citizen of Israel.,a member of the nation of Israel
 · Jerusalem the capital city of Israel,a town; the capital of Israel near the southern border of Benjamin
 · Joab son of Zeruiah, David's sister; commander of King David's army,son of Seraiah son of Kenaz of Judah; grand nephew of Caleb of Moses' time,a man whose descendants returned from exile in Babylon,ancestor of a family group who returned from exile headed by Obadiah the son of Jehiel
 · Midian resident(s) of the region of Midian
 · Milcom a pagan god, the national deity of the Ammonites (IBD)
 · Moab resident(s) of the country of Moab
 · Moabite a female descendant of Moab
 · Molech the national pagan god of the Ammonites (IBD)
 · Paran a wilderness of East central Sinai peninsula (IBD)
 · Pharaoh the king who ruled Egypt when Moses was born,the title of the king who ruled Egypt in Abraham's time,the title of the king who ruled Egypt in Joseph's time,the title of the king who ruled Egypt when Moses was born,the title of the king who refused to let Israel leave Egypt,the title of the king of Egypt whose daughter Solomon married,the title of the king who ruled Egypt in the time of Isaiah,the title Egypt's ruler just before Moses' time
 · Rezon son of Eliada; fugitive from Hadadezer king of Zobah
 · Sidonians residents of the town of Sidon
 · Solomon the tenth son of David; the father of Rehoboam; an ancestor of Jesus; the third king of Israel.,son of David and Bath-Sheba; successor of King David
 · Syria the country to the north of Palestine,a country of north western Mesopotamia
 · Tahpenes a title of the queen of Egypt
 · Zobah a region in central Syria (ZD)


Dictionary Themes and Topics: Solomon | Hadad | JEROBOAM | Backsliders | Pharaoh | Rulers | God | Joab | Citizenship | Women | Polygamy | Rezon | Tahpenes | Fellowship | WOMAN | TEMPLE, A1 | EGYPT | Molech | Instability | GODS | more
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NET Notes: 1Ki 11:2 Heb “Solomon clung to them for love.” The pronominal suffix, translated “them,” is masculine here, even though it appears the ...

NET Notes: 1Ki 11:3 Heb “his wives bent his heart.”

NET Notes: 1Ki 11:4 Heb “his heart was not complete with the Lord his God, like the heart of David his father.”

NET Notes: 1Ki 11:5 Heb “Milcom, the detestable thing of the Ammonites.”

NET Notes: 1Ki 11:6 The idiomatic statement reads in Hebrew, “he did not fill up after.”

NET Notes: 1Ki 11:7 The MT reads “Molech,” but Milcom must be intended (see vv. 5, 33).

NET Notes: 1Ki 11:8 Heb “and the same thing he did for all his foreign wives, [who] were burning incense and sacrificing to their gods.”

NET Notes: 1Ki 11:9 These two occasions are mentioned in 1 Kgs 3:5 and 9:2.

NET Notes: 1Ki 11:10 Or “keep.”

NET Notes: 1Ki 11:11 Heb “Because this is with you, and you have not kept my covenant and my rules which I commanded you.”

NET Notes: 1Ki 11:13 Heb “give.”

NET Notes: 1Ki 11:14 Or “raised up.”

NET Notes: 1Ki 11:15 Heb “when David was [fighting (?)] with Edom.”

NET Notes: 1Ki 11:16 Heb “until he had cut off every male in Edom.”

NET Notes: 1Ki 11:17 Heb “and Adad fled, he and Edomite men from the servants of his father, to go to Egypt, and Hadad was a small boy.”

NET Notes: 1Ki 11:18 Heb “and they arose from Midian and went to Paran and they took men with them from Paran and went to Egypt to Pharaoh king of Egypt and he gave ...

NET Notes: 1Ki 11:19 Heb “and he gave to him a wife, the sister of his wife, the sister of Tahpenes the queen.”

NET Notes: 1Ki 11:20 The Hebrew text reads וַתִּגְמְלֵהוּ (vattigmÿlehu, “we...

NET Notes: 1Ki 11:21 Heb “send me away.”

NET Notes: 1Ki 11:22 So Hadad asked Pharaoh… This lengthy description of Hadad’s exile in Egypt explains why Hadad wanted to oppose Solomon and supports the au...

NET Notes: 1Ki 11:23 Heb “him”; the referent (Solomon) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

NET Notes: 1Ki 11:24 The Hebrew text reads “when David killed them.” This phrase is traditionally joined with what precedes. The ancient Greek version does not...

NET Notes: 1Ki 11:25 The construction (Qal of קוּץ + בְּ [quts + bet] preposition) is rare, but not without parallel (see Lev 20:...

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