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7 aThen Solomon built a1 high place for bChemosh the abomination of Moab, on cthe hill that is east of Jerusalem, and for Molech the abomination of the people of Ammon.  
8 And he did likewise for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods.
9 So the Lord became angry with Solomon, because his heart had turned from the Lord God of Israel, awho had appeared to him twice,  
10 and ahad commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not go after other gods; but he did not keep what the Lord had commanded.  
11 Therefore the Lord said to Solomon, “Because you have done this, and have not kept My covenant and My statutes, which I have commanded you, aI will surely tear the kingdom away from you and give it to your bservant.  
12 Nevertheless I will not do it in your days, for the sake of your father David; I will tear it out of the hand of your son.
13 aHowever I will not tear away the whole kingdom; I will give bone tribe to your son cfor the sake of My servant David, and for the sake of Jerusalem dwhich I have chosen.”  
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Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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1 Kings 11:9-12

GOD THREATENS HIM. (I Kings 11:9-13)

the Lord was angry with Solomon—The divine appearance, first at Gibeon [I Kings 3:5], and then at Jerusalem [I Kings 9:2], after the dedication of the temple, with the warnings given him on both occasions [I Kings 3:11-14; I Kings 9:3-9], had left Solomon inexcusable; and it was proper and necessary that on one who had been so signally favored with the gifts of Heaven, but who had grossly abused them, a terrible judgment should fall. The divine sentence was announced to him probably by Ahijah; but there was mercy mingled with judgment, in the circumstance, that it should not be inflicted on Solomon personally—and that a remnant of the kingdom should be spared—"for David's sake, and for Jerusalem's sake, which had been chosen" to put God's name there; not from a partial bias in favor of either, but that the divine promise might stand (II Samuel 7:12-16).




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