1 Kings 11:3
3He had 700 wives, who were princesses, and 300 concubines. And his wives turned away his heart.1 Kings 11:6-27
6So Solomon did what was evil in the sight of the Lord and did not wholly follow the Lord, as David his father had done. 7Then Solomon built a high place for aChemosh the abomination of Moab, and for bMolech the abomination of the Ammonites, on the mountain east of Jerusalem. 8And so he did for all his foreign wives, who made offerings and sacrificed to their gods.The Lord Raises Adversaries
9And the Lord was angry with Solomon, because chis heart had turned away from the Lord, the God of Israel, dwho had appeared to him twice 10and ehad commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not go after other gods. But he did not keep what the Lord commanded. 11Therefore the Lord said to Solomon, “Since this has been your practice and you have not kept my covenant and my statutes that I have commanded you, fI will surely tear the kingdom from you and will give it to your servant. 12Yet 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. 13However, gI will not tear away all the kingdom, but hI will give one tribe to your son, for the sake of David my servant and for the sake of Jerusalem ithat I have chosen.”14And the Lord raised up an adversary against Solomon, Hadad the Edomite. He was of the royal house in Edom. 15For jwhen David was in Edom, and Joab the commander of the army went up to bury the slain, he struck down every male in Edom 16(for Joab and all Israel remained there six months, until he had cut off every male in Edom). 17But Hadad fled to Egypt, together with certain Edomites of his father’s servants, Hadad still being a little child. 18They set out from Midian and came to kParan and took men with them from Paran and came to Egypt, to Pharaoh king of Egypt, who gave him a house and assigned him an allowance of food and gave him land. 19And Hadad found great favor in the sight of Pharaoh, so that he gave him in marriage the sister of his own wife, the sister of Tahpenes the queen. 20And the sister of Tahpenes bore him Genubath his son, whom Tahpenes weaned in Pharaoh’s house. And Genubath was in Pharaoh’s house among the sons of Pharaoh. 21But when Hadad heard in Egypt lthat David slept with his fathers and that Joab the commander of the army was dead, Hadad said to Pharaoh, “Let me depart, that I may go to my own country.” 22But Pharaoh said to him, “What have you lacked with me that you are now seeking to go to your own country?” And he said to him, “Only let me depart.”
23God also raised up as an adversary to him, Rezon the son of Eliada, who had fled from his master mHadadezer king of Zobah. 24And he gathered men about him and became leader of a marauding band, nafter the killing by David. And they went to Damascus and lived there and made him king in Damascus. 25He was an adversary of Israel all the days of Solomon, doing harm as Hadad did. And he loathed Israel and reigned over Syria.
26 oJeroboam the son of Nebat, pan Ephraimite of Zeredah, a servant of Solomon, whose mother’s name was Zeruah, a widow, also qlifted up his hand against the king. 27And this was the reason why he lifted up his hand against the king. rSolomon built the Millo, and closed up the breach of the city of David his father.
1 Kings 12:9
9And he said to them, “What do you advise that we answer this people who have said to me, ‘Lighten the yoke that your father put on us’?”1 Kings 15:5
5because sDavid did what was right in the eyes of the Lord and did not turn aside from anything that he commanded him all the days of his life, texcept in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.1 Chronicles 11:41
41Uriah the Hittite, uZabad the son of Ahlai,Matthew 1:6
6and vJesse the father of David the king.And wDavid was the father of Solomon by xthe wife of Uriah,
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