1 Kings 10:26–11:14

26  And Solomon gathered chariots and horsemen; and he had a thousand four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen; and he placed them in the chariot-cities, and with the king at Jerusalem. 27  And the king made silver in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars made he as the sycamores that are in the lowland for abundance. 28  And the exportation of horses that Solomon had was from Egypt: a caravan of the king’s merchants fetched a drove of horses, at a price. 29  And a chariot came up and went out of Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and a horse for a hundred and fifty; and so they brought them by their means, for all the kings of the Hittites and for the kings of Syria.

Chapter 11

1  But king Solomon loved many foreign women, besides the daughter of Pharaoh: women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, Hittites; 2  of the nations of which Jehovah had said to the children of Israel, Ye shall not go in to them, neither shall they come in to you; they would certainly turn away your heart after their gods: to these Solomon was attached in love. 3  And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines; and his wives turned away his heart. 4  And it came to pass when Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his heart after other gods; and his heart was not perfect with Jehovah his God, as the heart of David his father. 5  And Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites. 6  And Solomon did evil in the sight of Jehovah, and followed not fully Jehovah, as David his father. 7  Then did Solomon build a high place for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, on the hill that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech the abomination of the children of Ammon. 8  And so he did for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods.

9  And Jehovah was angry with Solomon, because his heart was turned away from Jehovah the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice, 10  and had commanded him concerning this thing, not to go after other gods; but he kept not what Jehovah had commanded. 11  And Jehovah said to Solomon, Forasmuch as this is done by thee, and thou hast not kept my covenant and my statutes which I commanded thee, I will certainly rend the kingdom from thee, and will give it to thy servant: 12  notwithstanding in thy days I will not do it, for David thy father’s sake; I will rend it out of the hand of thy son; 13  only, I will not rend away all the kingdom: I will give one tribe to thy son, for David my servant’s sake, and for Jerusalem’s sake which I have chosen.

14  And Jehovah stirred up an adversary to Solomon, Hadad the Edomite; he was of the king’s seed in Edom.