38. If you listen to all that I command and walk in my ways, if you do what is right in my eyes, keeping my laws and my commands just as my servant David did, then I will be with you and I will build you a lasting dynasty just as I did for David. I will give you Israel.
39. I will humble David’s descendants by means of all this, though not forever.’"
40. Then Solomon tried to kill Jeroboam. But Jeroboam fled to Egypt and its king Shishak. Jeroboam remained in Egypt until Solomon died.
41. The rest of Solomon’s deeds, including all that he did and all his wisdom, aren’t they written in the official records of Solomon?
42. The amount of time Solomon ruled over all Israel in Jerusalem was forty years.
43. Then Solomon lay down with his ancestors. He was buried in his father David’s City, and Rehoboam his son succeeded him as king.