37. I will take you, and you shall reign according to all that your soul desires, and shall be king over Israel.
38. It shall be, if you will listen to all that I command you, and will walk in my ways, and do that which is right in my eyes, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as David my servant did; that I will be with you, and will build you a sure house, as I built for David, and will give Israel to you.
39. I will afflict the offspring of David for this, but not forever.’”
40. Therefore Solomon sought to kill Jeroboam; but Jeroboam arose, and fled into Egypt, to Shishak king of Egypt, and was in Egypt until the death of Solomon.
41. Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, and all that he did, and his wisdom, aren’t they written in the book of the acts of Solomon?
42. The time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel was forty years.
43. Solomon slept with his fathers, and was buried in his father David’s city; and Rehoboam his son reigned in his place.