¹Now King Solomon loved many foreign women, including Pharaoh's daughter, Moabite-, Ammonite-, Edomite-, Sidonian- and Hittite women, ²from the nations about which the Lord had said to the sons of Israel, “Do not have intercourse with them, and they shall not have intercourse with you. They will surely dispose your heart towards their gods.” Yet Solomon cleaved to them in love. ³And he had seven hundred wives who were princesses, and three hundred concubines, and his wives turned his heart aside. ⁴So it came to pass in the time of Solomon's old age, that his wives turned his heart towards other gods, and his heart was not sincere with the Lord his God, as the heart of David his father was. ⁵And Solomon went after Astarte, the goddess of the Sidonians, and after Milcom, the abomination of the Ammonites. ⁶And Solomon did evil in the sight of the Lord, and he did not fully follow the Lord as David his father did. ⁷Then Solomon built an idolatrous raised site to Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, at the mountain which faces Jerusalem, and to Molech, the abomination of the sons of Ammon. ⁸And he did this for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and offered sacrifices to their gods. ⁹And the Lord became angry with Solomon, for he had turned his heart away from being with the Lord God of Israel who had appeared to him twice. ¹⁰For he had commanded him concerning this matter, not to go after other gods. But he did not keep what the Lord had commanded him. ¹¹And the Lord said to Solomon, “Since this is the way with you, and you have not kept my covenant or my statutes which I commanded you, I will tear your kingdom asunder from you, and I will give it to your servant. ¹²But in your days I will not do it, for the sake of your father David. It is from the hand of your son that I will tear it apart. ¹³Nevertheless, I will not tear all your kingdom 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.” ¹⁴And the Lord incited as an adversary against Solomon, Hadad the Edomite, who was of the seed of the king in Edom. ¹⁵For it had come to pass, when David was in Edom, when Joab the commander of the army came up to bury the fallen, that he struck down every male in Edom. ¹⁶For Joab remained there for six months, as did the whole of Israel, until he had cut off every male in Edom. ¹⁷And Hadad had fled – he and some Edomite men from his father's servants with him – and they had headed for Egypt, when Hadad was a small boy. ¹⁸And they went up from Midian, and they came to Paran, and they took some men from Paran with them, and they went to Egypt, to Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he gave him a house, and he ordered food for him, and he gave him land. ¹⁹And Hadad found much grace in Pharaoh's eyes, and he gave him his wife's sister as his wife, the sister of Tahpenes the queen consort. ²⁰And Tahpenes' sister bore him Genubath his son, and Tahpenes weaned him in Pharaoh's house, and Genubath was in Pharaoh's house among Pharaoh's sons. ²¹Then when Hadad heard in Egypt that David had lain with his fathers, and that Joab the commander of the army had died, Hadad said to Pharaoh, “Let me go, and I will go to my country.” ²²But Pharaoh said to him, “But what do you lack with me that you should be here requesting to go to your country?” And he replied, “Nothing, but let me go anyway.” ²³God also incited as an adversary against him Rezon the son of Eliada, who had fled from Hadadezer his master, the king of Zobah. ²⁴And he recruited some men. Now he had been commander of a troop when David killed them. Then they went to Damascus and stayed in it, and they reigned in Damascus. ²⁵And he was an adversary of Israel all Solomon's days, alongside the harm which Hadad did, and he detested Israel, and he reigned over Aramaea. ²⁶And Jeroboam the son of Nebat, an Ephrathite from Zeredah, a servant of Solomon's, whose mother's name was Zeruah, a widow, revolted against the king. ²⁷And this is the reason why he revolted against the king: Solomon had built the Millo and closed the breach in the City of David his father. ²⁸Now the man Jeroboam was a valiant warrior, and Solomon had seen that the young man was resourceful, and he had appointed him to every duty in the house of Joseph. ²⁹And it came to pass at that time that Jeroboam departed from Jerusalem, and Ahijah the Shilonite prophet found him on his journey, and he had put a new cloak on, and the two of them were alone in the countryside, ³⁰and Ahijah seized the new coat which was on him and tore it into twelve shreds. ³¹And he said to Jeroboam, “You keep ten shreds, for this is what the Lord God of Israel says: ‘Behold, I am about to tear the kingdom from Solomon's hand and give to you the ten tribes. ³²And one tribe will be for him, for the sake of my servant David and for the sake of Jerusalem, the city which I chose out of all the tribes of Israel, ³³because they have deserted me and have worshipped Astarte, the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of Moab, and Milcom the god of the sons of Ammon, and they have not walked in my ways when they should have observed what is right in my sight – both my statutes and my regulations – as David his father did. ³⁴But I will not take the whole kingdom from his control, for I will appoint him as a prince all the days of his life, for the sake of my servant David whom I chose, who kept my commandments and my statutes. ³⁵So I will take the kingdom from his son's control and give you it – the ten tribes. ³⁶But I will give one tribe to his son, so that my servant David may continually have a lamp before me in Jerusalem, the city which I chose for myself to place my name there. ³⁷And I will take you, and you will reign over everyone whom your heart desires, and you will be king over Israel. ³⁸And it shall come to pass, if you heed everything that I command you, and you walk in my ways, and you do what is right in my eyes, in keeping my statutes and my commandments, as my servant David did, then I will be with you, and I will build you a steadfast house as I built for David, and I will give you Israel. ³⁹But because of this I will afflict David's seed, but not incessantly.’ ” ⁴⁰Then Solomon looked for a way to kill Jeroboam, and Jeroboam arose and fled to Egypt, to Shishak king of Egypt, and he was in Egypt until Solomon's death. ⁴¹And as for the rest of Solomon's affairs, and everything he did, and his wisdom, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of Solomon? ⁴²And the period for which Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over the whole of Israel was forty years. ⁴³And Solomon lay with his fathers and was buried in the City of David his father. And Rehoboam his son reigned in place of him.