1 Kings 11:12

1 Kings 11:12 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Notwithstanding in thy days I will not do it for David thy father’s sake: but I will rend it out of the hand of thy son.
• New International Version (NIV)Nevertheless, for the sake of David your father, I will not do it during your lifetime. I will tear it out of the hand of your son.
• English Standard Version (ESV)Yet for the sake of David your father I will not do it in your days, but I will tear it out of the hand of your son.
• New King James Version (NKJV)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.

Context of 1 Kings 11:12

10Although He had warned Solomon explicitly not to follow other gods, Solomon did not keep the LORD’s command. 11Then the LORD said to Solomon, “Because you have done this and have not kept My covenant and My statutes, which I have commanded you, I will tear the kingdom away from you and give it to your servant. Nevertheless, for the sake of your father David, I will not do it during your lifetime; I will tear it out of the hand of your son. 13Yet I will not tear the whole kingdom away from him. I will give one tribe to your son for the sake of My servant David and for the sake of Jerusalem, which I have chosen.” 14Then the LORD raised up against Solomon an adversary, Hadad the Edomite, from the royal line of Edom.

1 Kings 11:12 word by word

אַךְ־בְּיָמֶ֙יךָ֙ לֹ֣א אֶעֱשֶׂ֔נָּה לְמַ֖עַן דָּוִ֣ד אָבִ֑יךָ מִיַּ֥ד בִּנְךָ֖ אֶקְרָעֶֽנָּה׃Read the interlinear

• Neverthelessאַךְ'ak · surelyH389
• for the sakeמַ֫עַןma‛an · becauseH4616
• of your fatherאָב'âb · fatherH1
• Davidדָּוִדdâvid dâvîyd · DavidH1732
• I will notלֹאlô' lô' lôh · notH3808
• doעָשָׂה‛âώâh · to make: doH6213
• it during your lifetimeיוֹםyôm · dayH3117
• I will tear itקָרַעqâra‛ · to tearH7167
• out of the handיָדyâd · hand: powerH3027
• of your sonבֵּןbên · son: childH1121

Cross-references for 1 Kings 11:12

• 1 Kings 21:29“Have you seen how Ahab has humbled himself before Me? Because he has humbled himself before Me, I will not bring the calamity during his days, but I will bring it upon his house in the days of his son.”
• 2 Kings 20:17The time will surely come when everything in your palace and all that your fathers have stored up until this day will be carried off to Babylon. Nothing will be left, says the LORD.
• 2 Kings 22:19because your heart was tender and you humbled yourself before the LORD when you heard what I spoke against this place and against its people, that they would become a desolation and a curse, and because you have torn your clothes and wept before Me, I have heard you,’ declares the LORD.
• 1 Samuel 9:4So Saul passed through the hill country of Ephraim and then through the land of Shalishah, but they did not find the donkeys. He and the servant went through the region of Shaalim, but they were not there. Then they went through the land of Benjamin, and still they did not find them.
• Genesis 12:2I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.
• Genesis 19:29So when God destroyed the cities of the plain, He remembered Abraham, and He brought Lot out of the catastrophe that destroyed the cities where he had lived.
• Exodus 20:5You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on their children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,

Commentaries on 1 Kings 11:12

• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 9-13Verses 9-13 The Lord told Solomon, it is likely by a prophet, what he must expect for his apostacy. Though we have reason to hope that he repented, and found mercy, yet the Holy Ghost did not expressly record it, but left it doubtful, as a warning to others not to sin. The guilt may be taken away, but not the reproach; that will remain. Thus it must remain uncertain to us till the day of judgment, whether or not Solomon was left to suffer the everlasting…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 11-13God declared that the kingdom would split, but Solomon's descendants would keep a portion of it (see 1 Kings 11:32–36).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 9-129-12. the Lord was angry with Solomon--The divine appearance, first at Gibeon [1Ki 3:5], and then at Jerusalem [1Ki 9:2], after the dedication of the temple, with the warnings given him on both occasions [1Ki 3:11-14; 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…Read the comment

Topics related to 1 Kings 11:12

• Backsliders
• Government
• Intercession
• Judgments
• Probation
• Rulers
• Solomon

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Commentaries on 1 Kings 11

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings