Lexham English Bible

1 Kings 11:7-14 Lexham English Bible (LEB)

7. At that time, Solomon built a high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, on the mountain which faces Jerusalem and for Molech, the abomination of the Ammonites.

8. Thus he did for all of his foreign wives, offering incense and sacrificing to their gods.

9. Yahweh was angry with Solomon, for he had turned his heart from Yahweh, the God of Israel who had appeared to him twice.

10. And he had commanded him concerning this matter not to go after other gods, but he did not keep that which Yahweh commanded.

11. So Yahweh said to Solomon, “Because this was with you, and you did not keep my covenant and my ordinances which I have commanded you, I will certainly tear the kingdom from you, and I will give it to your servant.

12. However, I will not do it in your days, for the sake of David your father; from the hand of your son I will tear it away.

13. Yet all of the kingdom I will not tear away. 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 Yahweh raised an adversary against Solomon, Hadad the Edomite, from the descendants of that king in Edom.