The Skeptics Annotated Bible (318 page)

13 Howbeit I will not rend away all the kingdom; but will give one tribe to thy son for David my servant’s sake, and for Jerusalem’s sake which I have chosen.

14 And
the LORD stirred up an adversary unto Solomon, Hadad the Edomite
: he was of the king’s seed in Edom.

(11.14)
“The LORD stirred up an adversary unto Solomon, Hadad the Edomite.”
To punish Solomon for his strange wives and strange gods, God “stirred up an adversary unto Solomon, Hadad the Edomite.”

15 For it came to pass, when David was in Edom, and
Joab
the captain of the host was gone up to bury the slain, after he
had smitten every male in Edom;

(11.15)
“Joab … had smitten every male in Edom.”
Joab (David’s captain) spent six months killing every male in Edom. Yet a few years later Edom revolted. (2 Kings 8.22)
God’s 80th Killing

16 (For six months did Joab remain there with all Israel, until he had cut off every male in Edom:)

17 That Hadad fled, he and certain Edomites of his father’s servants with him, to go into Egypt; Hadad being yet a little child.

18 And they arose out of Midian, and came to Paran: and they took men with them out of Paran, and they came to Egypt, unto Pharaoh king of Egypt; which gave him an house, and appointed him victuals, and gave him land.

19 And Hadad found great favour in the sight of Pharaoh, so that he gave him to wife the sister of his own wife, the sister of Tahpenes the queen.

20 And the sister of Tahpenes bare him Genubath his son, whom Tahpenes weaned in Pharaoh’s house: and Genubath was in Pharaoh’s household among the sons of Pharaoh.

21 And when Hadad heard in Egypt that David slept with his fathers, and that Joab the captain of the host was dead, Hadad said to Pharaoh, Let me depart, that I may go to mine own country.

22 Then Pharaoh said unto him, But what hast thou lacked with me, that, behold, thou seekest to go to thine own country? And he answered, Nothing: howbeit let me go in any wise.

23 And
God stirred him up another adversary, Rezon
the son of Eliadah, which fled from his lord Hadadezer king of Zobah:

(11.23) “God stirred him up another adversary, Rezon.”

24 And he gathered men unto him, and became captain over a band, when David slew them of Zobah: and they went to Damascus, and dwelt therein, and reigned in Damascus.

25 And he was an adversary to Israel all the days of Solomon, beside the mischief that Hadad did: and he abhorred Israel, and reigned over Syria.

26 And Jeroboam the son of Nebat, an Ephrathite of Zereda, Solomon’s servant, whose mother’s name was Zeruah, a widow woman, even he lifted up his hand against the king.

27 And this was the cause that he lifted up his hand against the king: Solomon built Millo, and repaired the breaches of the city of David his father.

28 And the man Jeroboam was a mighty man of valour: and Solomon seeing the young man that he was industrious, he made him ruler over all the charge of the house of Joseph.

29 And it came to pass at that time when Jeroboam went out of Jerusalem, that the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite found him in the way; and he had clad himself with a new garment; and they two were alone in the field:

30 And
Ahijah caught the new garment that was on him, and rent it in twelve pieces:

31 And he said to Jeroboam, Take thee ten pieces:
for thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, Behold, I will rend the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon
, and will give ten tribes to thee:

(11.30-31)
“Ahijah caught the new garment that was on him, and rent it in twelve pieces … for thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, Behold, I will rend the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon.”

32 (But he shall have one tribe for my servant David’s sake, and for Jerusalem’s sake, the city which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel:)

33 Because that
they
have forsaken me, and have worshipped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Milcom the god of the children of Ammon, and
have not walked in my ways, to do that which is right in mine eyes, and to keep my statutes and my judgments, as did David his father.

(11.33) “They … have not walked in my ways, to do that which is right in mine eyes, and to keep my statutes and my judgments, as did David his father.”

34 Howbeit I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand: but I will make him prince all the days of his life for
David my servant
’s sake,
whom I chose, because he kept my commandments and my statutes:

(11.34) “David my servant … whom I chose, because he kept my commandments and my statutes.”

35 But I will take the kingdom out of his son’s hand, and will give it unto thee, even ten tribes.

36 And unto his son will I give one tribe, that David my servant may have a light alway before me in
Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen
me to put my name there.

(11.36) “Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen.” God likes Jerusalem better than any other city.