Bible verse

1 Kings 11:12

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.

1 Kings 11:12 · BSB

1 Kings 11:12 in context

The verses around it, from 1 Kings 11.

8 He did the same for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods.

9 Now the LORD grew angry with Solomon, because his heart had turned away from the LORD, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice.

10 Although He had warned Solomon explicitly not to follow other gods, Solomon did not keep the LORD’s command.

11 Then 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.

12 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.

13 Yet 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.”

14 Then the LORD raised up against Solomon an adversary, Hadad the Edomite, from the royal line of Edom.

15 Earlier, when David was in Edom, Joab the commander of the army had gone to bury the dead and had struck down every male in Edom.

16 Joab and all Israel had stayed there six months, until he had killed every male in Edom.

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1 Kings 11:12 in other translations

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.

ASV

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.

ERV

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.

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