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Ferrar Fentons 'Holy Bible in Modern English. All spelling, punctuation and formatting maintained through-out. Verse ordering follows the King James version for clarity and necessary organization of the verses.

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RF KI1 11:1 (B.C. 1000 to 970.) Solomon's Faults and Sins.
King Solomon, however, loved many foreign women, beside the daughter of Pharoh;—Moabites, Amonites, Aramites, Zidonians, Hitites,—
RF KI1 11:2 of those nations whom the EVER-LIVING said to the children of Israel, "You shall not marry with them, and they shall not marry with you, for they will turn your hearts after their gods." Solomon descended to love them,
RF KI1 11:3 and had seven hundred princess wives, and three hundred plebeian wives, and when Solomon became old his wives turned his heart after strange gods,
RF KI1 11:4 and his heart was not at peace with his EVER-LIVING GOD like the heart of his father David.
RF KI1 11:5 Solomon consequently went after Ashteroth, the goddess of the Zidonians; and after the abominable Milkom, of the Amonites.
RF KI1 11:6 Thus Solomon did wrong in the sight of the EVER-LIVING and did not walk after the EVER-LIVING like David his father.
RF KI1 11:7 Solomon also built towers to the abominable Kemosh of Moab, on the hill opposite to Jerusalem, and to abominable Molek, of the Amonites,
RF KI1 11:8 and did the same for all his foreign wives, with censers and altars for their gods.
RF KI1 11:9 Therefore the EVER-LIVING was displeased with Solomon, for his heart declined from the EVER-LIVING GOD of Israel Who had appeared to him often,
RF KI1 11:10 and had instructed him upon this matter, never to follow after other gods;—but he regarded not what the EVER-LIVING had commanded him.
RF KI1 11:11 The EVER-LIVING consequently demanded of Solomon, "Say, what has been done to you, that you have not regarded My Covenant, and My Institutions, as I commanded you? I will tear away the kingship from you, and give it to your servant!
RF KI1 11:12 However, I will not do this in your days, because of David your father. I will tear it from the hand of your son!
RF KI1 11:13 Yet I will not tear the whole kingship. I will give one tribe to your son, for the sake of David My servant, and for the sake of Jerusalem which I have chosen."
RF KI1 11:14 (About B.C. 984.) Banditti Appear in Edom.
The EVER-LIVING, however, raised up an enemy to Solomon, Hadad the Edomite, who was of the Royal race of Edom,
RF KI1 11:15 and when David invaded Edom at Aloth, Joab, the commander of the army, buried the slain, and executed all the males of the king of Edom,
RF KI1 11:16 for Joab occupied six months there with the force of Israel until they destroyed all the male life of (the king1 of) Edom.
RF KI1 11:17 But Hadad escaped, with some Edomite nobles, officers of his father, and went to the Mitzeraim. But Hadad was a little child.
RF KI1 11:18 And they went up from Midian, and came to Paran, and collected men to themselves from Paran, and went to Mitzer, to Pharoh, king of the Mitzeraim, who gave him a house and maintenance, and said to him, "The land is open to you."
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1 ("The King of Edom") is to be understood, the name of the country representing in Hebrew and Old English the Monarch See Shakespeare.—F.F.
RF KI1 11:19 Hadad also found great favour in the sight of Pharoh, and he gave him as a wife the sister of his own wife,
RF KI1 11:20 the sister of Thakhfanes of Gabirah; and the sister of Thakhfenes bore him Genubah, his son, whom Thakhfenes reared in the palace of Pharoh, so that Genubah was in the circle of Pharoh's palace, amongst the children of Pharoh.
RF KI1 11:21 When Hadad heard in Egypt that David was asleep with his fathers and that Joab the Commander of his army was dead, Hadad said to Pharoh, "Release me, and I will go to my own. country."
RF KI1 11:22 But Pharoh asked, "For what reason? You came to me;—then why should you seek to go to your country?" He, however, replied, "No! Yet releasing, let me go."
RF KI1 11:23 (B.C. 980.) Banditti Appear in Aram.
GOD also raised him an enemy in Rezan-ben-Alida who had fled from Hadadazer, king of Tzobah, 1 his prince,
RF KI1 11:24 and collected men to himself, and became General of a troop of mercenaries with David. They afterwards went to Damascus and settled there, and he ruled in Damascus.
RF KI1 11:25 But he was an enemy to Israel in the time of Solomon beside the mischief of Hadad,—and he was an annoyance to Israel, and reigned in Aram.
RF KI1 11:26 (About B.C. 980) History of Jerabam son of Nabat.
Jerabam-ben-Nebat, also, an Afrathite, of Tzarad, whose mother's name was Tzeruah, wife of Almanah an officer of Solomon, rose to favour with the king.
RF KI1 11:27 And the reason why he rose to favour with King Solomon, was, when he was building the fortress around the extent of the City of David, his father,
RF KI1 11:28 the man, Jerabam was energetic, and so Solomon noticed the youth, for he did the work well, and he appointed him over all the builders of the house of Joseph.
RF KI1 11:29 But on one occasion when Jerabam was going out of Jerusalem, Akhiah the Reciter, the Shilonite, met him in the road, when he was clothed in a new robe, and both were alone in the open country,
RF KI1 11:30 where Akhiah seized the new robe which was upon him, and tore it into twelve pieces,
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1 The Delta of the Euphrates.—F.F.
RF KI1 11:31 and exclaimed to Jerabam, "You take ten pieces! for thus says the EVER-LIVING GOD of Israel, 'I will tear the kingship from the hand of Solomon, and I will give to you ten of the tribes! '
RF KI1 11:32 But the one tribe of Judah to him, because of My servant David, and because of Jerusalem the city I have chosen from all the tribes of Israel,—
RF KI1 11:33 because he has forsaken Me, and worshipped Ashtaroth, the goddess of Zidon, and Kemosh the god of Moab, and Milkom the god of Beni-Amon, and has not walked in My paths to do right in My sight, according to My Institutions and Decrees, like his father David.
RF KI1 11:34 I will not, however, take all the kingship from his hand, he shall remain supreme all the time of his life, because of David My servant, whom I chose, who regarded My commands and My institutions.
RF KI1 11:35 Yet I shall take the kingship from the hand of his son, and give you the ten tribes.
RF KI1 11:36 But to his son I shall give one tribe, so that there may be a light to David My servant at all times before Me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen to Myself to fix My Name there.
RF KI1 11:37 Thus I will take you, and you shall reign in all that your soul desires, and you shall be king over Israel.
RF KI1 11:38 And then if you listen to all I command you, and walk in My way, and do right in My sight, by preserving My Institutions and Commandments, as David My servant did, I will be with you and build you a permanent House, as I have built for David, and I will give Israel to you.
RF KI1 11:39 And I depress the race of David because of this—but not for all time!'"
RF KI1 11:40 Solomon consequently sought to kill Jerabam, so Jerabam arose and fled to Mitzer to Shishak, king of the Mitzeraim, and continued in Mitzer until the death of Solomon.
RF KI1 11:41 (B.C. 975.) Death of Solomon.
As to the rest of the affairs of Solomon, and all that he did, and his wisdom, are they not written in the history of the events of Solomon?
RF KI1 11:42 But the time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over Israel was forty years.
RF KI1 11:43 Then Solomon slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of his father David, and Rehaboam his son reigned in his place.




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