1 Kings 11:13
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.”
1 Kings 11:36
11:36 I will leave
his son one tribe so my servant David’s dynasty may continue to serve me
in Jerusalem, the city I have chosen as my home.
1 Kings 11:2
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.
1 Kings 10:17
10:17 He also made three hundred small shields of hammered gold; three minas
of gold were used for each of these shields. The king placed them in the Palace of the Lebanon Forest.
1 Kings 11:13-17
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.