1 Kings 11:12
in 1 Kings 11Nevertheless, for the sake of your father David, I will not do it during your lifetime; I will tear it out of the hand of your son.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
Notwithstanding in thy days I will not do it, for David thy father’s sake: but I will rend it out of the hand of thy son.
KJV
Notwithstanding in thy days I will not do it for David thy father’s sake: but I will rend it out of the hand of thy son.
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This verse in 1 Kings 11
Commentary
5 notes on this verseNotwithstanding in thy days I will not do it for David thy father's sake,.... Not for the merits of David, but the promises made to him, 2Sa 7:12, but I will rend it out of the hand of thy son; and immediate successor, Rehoboam.
This site's exposition
I will surely rend the kingdom
on 1 Kings 11:11-13
The sentence falls in three moves, and each move names David: not in Solomon's own days, for David thy father's sake, verse 12; not the whole kingdom, one tribe kept back for David my servant's sake and for Jerusalem's sake, verse 13. This is thread 1 stated twice already in five verses, the covenant of 2 Sam 7:14-15 holding a wicked son's judgment inside a father's promise. The kingdom is rent for the son's sin and preserved for the father's sake, the two halves of the same covenant working at once.
This site's exposition
for the sake of your father David
John Gill grounds the delay in the promise to David at 2 Samuel 7:12, and he sets aside any merit of David himself. Matthew Henry notes that the kingdom is torn away later. Gill names the son whose hand loses it, Rehoboam.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
), that is, for the sake of the promise made to David. Thus all the favour God shows to man is for Christ's sake, and for the sake of the covenant made with him. The kingdom shall be rent from Solomon's house, but, (1.) Not immediately.
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The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
9:3-9], had left Solomon inexcusable; and it was proper and necessary that on one who had been so signally favored with the gifts of Heaven, but who had grossly abused them, a terrible judgment should fall.
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How the passage was read
What the Jewish commentators add
On the verses either side of this one
This had been with you. [I.e.,] you knew that you were transgressing My commandments.
This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.
Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 5 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.
The words behind it
10 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| אַךְ־ | ʾakh- | only | H389 → | 161 times |
| בְּיָמֶ֙יךָ֙ | beyameikha | in days your | H3117 → | 2304 times |
| לֹ֣א | lo' | not | H3808 → | 5168 times |
| אֶעֱשֶׂ֔נָּה | ʾeesenah | I will do it | H6213 → | 2628 times |
| לְמַ֖עַן | lemaan | for [the] sake of | H4616 → | 272 times |
| דָּוִ֣ד | david | David | H1732 → | 999 times |
| אָבִ֑יךָ | ʾavikha | father your | H1 → | 1212 times |
| מִיַּ֥ד | miyad | from [the] hand of | H3027 → | 1618 times |
| בִּנְךָ֖ | binkha | son your | H1121 → | 4930 times |
| אֶקְרָעֶֽנָּה׃ | ʾekraenah | I will tear away it | H7167 → | 63 times |
אַךְ־only
ʾakh-H389 →161 times
בְּיָמֶ֙יךָ֙in days your
beyameikhaH3117 →2304 times
לֹ֣אnot
lo'H3808 →5168 times
אֶעֱשֶׂ֔נָּהI will do it
ʾeesenahH6213 →2628 times
לְמַ֖עַןfor [the] sake of
lemaanH4616 →272 times
דָּוִ֣דDavid
davidH1732 →999 times
אָבִ֑יךָfather your
ʾavikhaH1 →1212 times
מִיַּ֥דfrom [the] hand of
miyadH3027 →1618 times
בִּנְךָ֖son your
binkhaH1121 →4930 times
אֶקְרָעֶֽנָּה׃I will tear away it
ʾekraenahH7167 →63 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
1 Kings 21:29“Have you seen how Ahab has humbled himself before Me? Because he has humbled himself before Me, I will not bring the calamity during his days, but I will bring it upon his house…
it leads to
- 2 Peter 3:9
The Lord is not slow in keeping His promise as some understand slowness, but is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish but everyone to come to repentance.
- Micah 7:18
Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance—who does not retain His anger forever, because He delights in loving devotion?
- 2 Kings 9:25–26
And Jehu said to Bidkar his officer, “Pick him up and throw him into the field of Naboth the Jezreelite. For remember that when you and I were riding together behind his father Ahab,…
- Psalms 86:15
But You, O Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion and faithfulness.
- 2 Kings 9:33
“Throw her down!” yelled Jehu. So they threw her down, and her blood splattered on the wall and on the horses as they trampled her underfoot.
- 2 Peter 3:9
Through
2 Kings 20:17The time will surely come when everything in your palace and all that your fathers have stored up until this day will be carried off to Babylon. Nothing will be left, says the LORD.
it leads to
- 2 Kings 24:13
As the LORD had declared, Nebuchadnezzar also carried off all the treasures from the house of the LORD and the royal palace, and he cut into pieces all the gold articles that Solomon king…
- 2 Chronicles 36:10
In the spring, King Nebuchadnezzar summoned Jehoiachin and brought him to Babylon, along with the articles of value from the house of the LORD. And he made Jehoiachin’s relative Zedekiah king over Judah and…
- Jeremiah 27:21–22
Yes, this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says about the articles that remain in the house of the LORD, in the palace of the king of Judah, and in…
- 2 Kings 24:13
Where this verse is studied
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This page draws on Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; Keil, The Books of the Kings and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.