1 Kungaboken 11
Swedish New Living Bible (Nya Levande Bibeln)
Salomos hustrur förleder honom
11 Kung Salomo skaffade sig många hustrur vid sidan om den egyptiska prinsessan, Faraos dotter. En hel del av dem kom från länder där man tillbad avgudar, från Moab, Ammon, Edom och Sidon och från hetiterna.
2 Trots att Herren klart och tydligt hade förbjudit Israel att beblanda sig med dessa folk, eftersom kvinnorna skulle kunna förleda dem att tillbe deras avgudar, gjorde Salomo ändå det.
3 Han hade 700 hustrur av kunglig härkomst och 300 bihustrur. De fick honom att vända sig bort från Herren,
4 särskilt när han började bli äldre. De övertalade honom att tillbe deras avgudar i stället för att bara vända sig till Herren och förlita sig på honom, som hans far David hade gjort.
5 Salomo tillbad Astarte, sidoniernas gudinna och Milkom, ammoniternas avskyvärde gud.
6 Alltså handlade Salomo uppenbart mot Herrens vilja och vägrade att följa Herrens befallningar, till skillnad från sin far.
7 Han byggde till och med ett tempel på Oljeberget, öster om Jerusalem, åt Kemos, moabiternas gud, ett annat åt Molok, ammoniternas gud,
8 och flera tempel byggdes för de av hans hustrur som dyrkade främmande gudar, så att de där kunde tända rökelse och offra till dem.
9-10 Herren blev mycket vred över Salomos svek och för att han hade avfallit från Herren, Israels Gud, som två gånger hade uppenbarat sig för honom och varnat honom för att tillbe andra gudar. Men Salomo hade inte lyssnat,
11 och därför sa Herren till honom: Du har inte hållit det förbund vi ingick och inte heller levt efter mina lagar. Därför ska jag ta riket från dig och din familj och ge det åt någon annan.
12-13 Men för din fars skull ska jag inte göra det medan du lever. Jag ska ta riket från din son, men inte hela. För Davids skull och för min utvalda stad Jerusalems skull, ska han få behålla en av stammarna.
Salomos fiender
14 Herren såg till att Salomo fick en farlig motståndare i edomeen Hadad, som tillhörde den edomitiska kungafamiljen.
15 Flera år tidigare, när David hade varit i Edom tillsammans med Joab för att begrava de israelitiska soldater som dött i strid, hade den israelitiska armén tagit livet av alla män i hela landet.
16-18 Det tog sex månader att utföra detta. Men några kungliga tjänstemän hade tagit Hadad med sig till Egypten. Han var då bara en liten pojke. De begav sig från Midjan till Paran, där ytterligare några personer slöt sig till sällskapet och följde med dem till Egypten. Där tog Farao emot dem och gav Hadad ett hus med mark och även underhåll.
19 Farao var så förtjust i Hadad att han gav honom en syster till drottning Tapenes som hustru.
20 Med henne fick Hadad en son, Genubat, som växte upp i Faraos palats tillsammans med Faraos egna söner.
21 Men när Hadad i Egypten fick höra att både David och Joab var döda, bad han Farao om tillåtelse att få vända tillbaka till Edom.
22 Varför ska du göra det? frågade Farao honom. Vad är det du saknar här? Är du missnöjd med någonting? Allting är utmärkt här, men jag vill ändå resa hem igen, svarade han.
23 Ännu en av Salomos fiender, som Gud hade låtit få stor makt, var Reson. Han hade varit i tjänst hos Hadadeser, kungen i Soba, men flytt från sin post och lämnat landet.
24 Reson hade blivit ledare för ett gäng banditer, män som hade flytt med honom till Damaskus när David besegrade Soba. Reson bosatte sig i Damaskus och tog kontrollen över staden.
25 Under hela Salomos livstid var Reson hans bittra fiende och utgjorde alltså ytterligare ett problem för honom vid sidan av Hadad.
26 En annan upprorsmakare var Nebats son Jerobeam från Sereda i Efraim. Hans mor hette Seruga och var änka.
27-28 Det här är bakgrunden till hans uppror mot kungen: Salomo höll på att bygga upp terrasserna och reparerade murarna i Davids stad. Jerobeam var en duktig arbetare, och när Salomo upptäckte det gjorde han honom ansvarig för det arbete som Josefs stam skulle utföra.
29 En dag när Jerobeam var på väg från Jerusalem, träffade han profeten Ahia från Silo, som var klädd i en alldeles ny mantel.
30 När ingen annan fanns i närheten tog Ahia sin mantel och rev den i tolv delar
31 och sa till Jerobeam: Ta tio av de här bitarna, för Herren, Israels Gud säger: 'Jag ska ta kungariket ur Salomos hand och ge dig tio av stammarna.
32 Men jag ska lämna kvar en stam åt honom för min tjänare Davids skull och för Jerusalems skull, den stad som jag har valt framför alla andra städer i Israel.
33 Salomo har övergett mig och börjat tillbe Astarte, sidoniernas gudinna, Kemos, Moabs gud och Milkom, ammoniternas gud. Han har inte vandrat på mina vägar och inte gjort vad som är rätt. Han har inte följt mina lagar och föreskrifter så som hans far David gjorde.
34 Men jag ska inte ta riket från honom nu. För min tjänare Davids skull, honom som jag utvalde därför att han höll mina bud, ska jag låta Salomo regera under resten av sitt liv.
35 Men jag ska ta riket från hans söner och ge dig tio stammar.
36 Hans son ska få behålla en stam, så att Davids ättlingar kan fortsätta att regera i Jerusalem, den stad där jag har bestämt att mitt namn ska finnas.
37 Jag ska sätta dig på Israels tron och ge dig oinskränkt makt!
38 Om du lyssnar till vad jag säger och vandrar på mina vägar och gör vad jag anser vara rätt och håller mina bud, som min tjänare David gjorde, då ska jag välsigna dig, och dina ättlingar ska regera över Israel. En gång gav jag samma löfte till David,
39 men på grund av Salomos synd ska jag straffa Davids ättlingar, dock inte för alltid.'
40 Salomo försökte döda Jerobeam, men han flydde till Sisak, kungen i Egypten. Där stannade Jerobeam tills Salomo var död.
Salomo dör
41 Om annat som hände under Salomos regering och om all hans visdom finns skrivet i Salomos krönika.
42 Salomo regerade i Jerusalem i fyrtio år,
43 och när han hade dött blev han begraven i sin far Davids stad. Hans son Rehabeam efterträdde honom på tronen.
1 Kings 11
New Living Translation
Solomon’s Many Wives
11 Now King Solomon loved many foreign women. Besides Pharaoh’s daughter, he married women from Moab, Ammon, Edom, Sidon, and from among the Hittites. 2 The Lord had clearly instructed the people of Israel, “You must not marry them, because they will turn your hearts to their gods.” Yet Solomon insisted on loving them anyway. 3 He had 700 wives of royal birth and 300 concubines. And in fact, they did turn his heart away from the Lord.
4 In Solomon’s old age, they turned his heart to worship other gods instead of being completely faithful to the Lord his God, as his father, David, had been. 5 Solomon worshiped Ashtoreth, the goddess of the Sidonians, and Molech,[a] the detestable god of the Ammonites. 6 In this way, Solomon did what was evil in the Lord’s sight; he refused to follow the Lord completely, as his father, David, had done.
7 On the Mount of Olives, east of Jerusalem,[b] he even built a pagan shrine for Chemosh, the detestable god of Moab, and another for Molech, the detestable god of the Ammonites. 8 Solomon built such shrines for all his foreign wives to use for burning incense and sacrificing to their gods.
9 The Lord was very angry with Solomon, for his heart had turned away from the Lord, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice. 10 He had warned Solomon specifically about worshiping other gods, but Solomon did not listen to the Lord’s command. 11 So now the Lord said to him, “Since you have not kept my covenant and have disobeyed my decrees, I will surely tear the kingdom away from you and give it to one of your servants. 12 But for the sake of your father, David, I will not do this while you are still alive. I will take the kingdom away from your son. 13 And even so, I will not take away the entire kingdom; I will let him be king of one tribe, for the sake of my servant David and for the sake of Jerusalem, my chosen city.”
Solomon’s Adversaries
14 Then the Lord raised up Hadad the Edomite, a member of Edom’s royal family, to be Solomon’s adversary. 15 Years before, David had defeated Edom. Joab, his army commander, had stayed to bury some of the Israelite soldiers who had died in battle. While there, they killed every male in Edom. 16 Joab and the army of Israel had stayed there for six months, killing them.
17 But Hadad and a few of his father’s royal officials escaped and headed for Egypt. (Hadad was just a boy at the time.) 18 They set out from Midian and went to Paran, where others joined them. Then they traveled to Egypt and went to Pharaoh, who gave them a home, food, and some land. 19 Pharaoh grew very fond of Hadad, and he gave him his wife’s sister in marriage—the sister of Queen Tahpenes. 20 She bore him a son named Genubath. Tahpenes raised him[c] in Pharaoh’s palace among Pharaoh’s own sons.
21 When the news reached Hadad in Egypt that David and his commander Joab were both dead, he said to Pharaoh, “Let me return to my own country.”
22 “Why?” Pharaoh asked him. “What do you lack here that makes you want to go home?”
“Nothing,” he replied. “But even so, please let me return home.”
23 God also raised up Rezon son of Eliada as Solomon’s adversary. Rezon had fled from his master, King Hadadezer of Zobah, 24 and had become the leader of a gang of rebels. After David conquered Hadadezer, Rezon and his men fled to Damascus, where he became king. 25 Rezon was Israel’s bitter adversary for the rest of Solomon’s reign, and he made trouble, just as Hadad did. Rezon hated Israel intensely and continued to reign in Aram.
Jeroboam Rebels against Solomon
26 Another rebel leader was Jeroboam son of Nebat, one of Solomon’s own officials. He came from the town of Zeredah in Ephraim, and his mother was Zeruah, a widow.
27 This is the story behind his rebellion. Solomon was rebuilding the supporting terraces[d] and repairing the walls of the city of his father, David. 28 Jeroboam was a very capable young man, and when Solomon saw how industrious he was, he put him in charge of the labor force from the tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh, the descendants of Joseph.
29 One day as Jeroboam was leaving Jerusalem, the prophet Ahijah from Shiloh met him along the way. Ahijah was wearing a new cloak. The two of them were alone in a field, 30 and Ahijah took hold of the new cloak he was wearing and tore it into twelve pieces. 31 Then he said to Jeroboam, “Take ten of these pieces, for this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: ‘I am about to tear the kingdom from the hand of Solomon, and I will give ten of the tribes to you! 32 But I will leave him one tribe for the sake of my servant David and for the sake of Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel. 33 For Solomon has[e] abandoned me and worshiped Ashtoreth, the goddess of the Sidonians; Chemosh, the god of Moab; and Molech, the god of the Ammonites. He has not followed my ways and done what is pleasing in my sight. He has not obeyed my decrees and regulations as David his father did.
34 “‘But I will not take the entire kingdom from Solomon at this time. For the sake of my servant David, the one whom I chose and who obeyed my commands and decrees, I will keep Solomon as leader for the rest of his life. 35 But I will take the kingdom away from his son and give ten of the tribes to you. 36 His son will have one tribe so that the descendants of David my servant will continue to reign, shining like a lamp in Jerusalem, the city I have chosen to be the place for my name. 37 And I will place you on the throne of Israel, and you will rule over all that your heart desires. 38 If you listen to what I tell you and follow my ways and do whatever I consider to be right, and if you obey my decrees and commands, as my servant David did, then I will always be with you. I will establish an enduring dynasty for you as I did for David, and I will give Israel to you. 39 Because of Solomon’s sin I will punish the descendants of David—though not forever.’”
40 Solomon tried to kill Jeroboam, but he fled to King Shishak of Egypt and stayed there until Solomon died.
Summary of Solomon’s Reign
41 The rest of the events in Solomon’s reign, including all his deeds and his wisdom, are recorded in The Book of the Acts of Solomon. 42 Solomon ruled in Jerusalem over all Israel for forty years. 43 When he died, he was buried in the City of David, named for his father. Then his son Rehoboam became the next king.
Footnotes
- 11:5 Hebrew Milcom, a variant spelling of Molech; also in 11:33.
- 11:7 Hebrew On the mountain east of Jerusalem.
- 11:20 As in Greek version; Hebrew reads weaned him.
- 11:27 Hebrew the millo. The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain.
- 11:33 As in Greek, Syriac, and Latin Vulgate; Hebrew reads For they have.
1 Kings 11
King James Version
11 But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites:
2 Of the nations concerning which the Lord said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall not go in to them, neither shall they come in unto you: for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods: Solomon clave unto these in love.
3 And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines: and his wives turned away his heart.
4 For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his heart after other gods: and his heart was not perfect with the Lord his God, as was the heart of David his father.
5 For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.
6 And Solomon did evil in the sight of the Lord, and went not fully after the Lord, as did David his father.
7 Then did Solomon build an high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, in the hill that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the abomination of the children of Ammon.
8 And likewise did he for all his strange wives, which burnt incense and sacrificed unto their gods.
9 And the Lord was angry with Solomon, because his heart was turned from the Lord God of Israel, which had appeared unto him twice,
10 And had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not go after other gods: but he kept not that which the Lord commanded.
11 Wherefore the Lord said unto Solomon, Forasmuch as this is done of thee, and thou hast not kept my covenant and my statutes, which I have commanded thee, I will surely rend the kingdom from thee, and will give it to thy servant.
12 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.
13 Howbeit I will not rend away all the kingdom; but will give one tribe to thy son for David my servant's sake, and for Jerusalem's sake which I have chosen.
14 And the Lord stirred up an adversary unto Solomon, Hadad the Edomite: he was of the king's seed in Edom.
15 For it came to pass, when David was in Edom, and Joab the captain of the host was gone up to bury the slain, after he had smitten every male in Edom;
16 (For six months did Joab remain there with all Israel, until he had cut off every male in Edom:)
17 That Hadad fled, he and certain Edomites of his father's servants with him, to go into Egypt; Hadad being yet a little child.
18 And they arose out of Midian, and came to Paran: and they took men with them out of Paran, and they came to Egypt, unto Pharaoh king of Egypt; which gave him an house, and appointed him victuals, and gave him land.
19 And Hadad found great favour in the sight of Pharaoh, so that he gave him to wife the sister of his own wife, the sister of Tahpenes the queen.
20 And the sister of Tahpenes bare him Genubath his son, whom Tahpenes weaned in Pharaoh's house: and Genubath was in Pharaoh's household among the sons of Pharaoh.
21 And when Hadad heard in Egypt that David slept with his fathers, and that Joab the captain of the host was dead, Hadad said to Pharaoh, Let me depart, that I may go to mine own country.
22 Then Pharaoh said unto him, But what hast thou lacked with me, that, behold, thou seekest to go to thine own country? And he answered, Nothing: howbeit let me go in any wise.
23 And God stirred him up another adversary, Rezon the son of Eliadah, which fled from his lord Hadadezer king of Zobah:
24 And he gathered men unto him, and became captain over a band, when David slew them of Zobah: and they went to Damascus, and dwelt therein, and reigned in Damascus.
25 And he was an adversary to Israel all the days of Solomon, beside the mischief that Hadad did: and he abhorred Israel, and reigned over Syria.
26 And Jeroboam the son of Nebat, an Ephrathite of Zereda, Solomon's servant, whose mother's name was Zeruah, a widow woman, even he lifted up his hand against the king.
27 And this was the cause that he lifted up his hand against the king: Solomon built Millo, and repaired the breaches of the city of David his father.
28 And the man Jeroboam was a mighty man of valour: and Solomon seeing the young man that he was industrious, he made him ruler over all the charge of the house of Joseph.
29 And it came to pass at that time when Jeroboam went out of Jerusalem, that the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite found him in the way; and he had clad himself with a new garment; and they two were alone in the field:
30 And Ahijah caught the new garment that was on him, and rent it in twelve pieces:
31 And he said to Jeroboam, Take thee ten pieces: for thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel, Behold, I will rend the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon, and will give ten tribes to thee:
32 (But he shall have one tribe for my servant David's sake, and for Jerusalem's sake, the city which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel:)
33 Because that they have forsaken me, and have worshipped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Milcom the god of the children of Ammon, and have not walked in my ways, to do that which is right in mine eyes, and to keep my statutes and my judgments, as did David his father.
34 Howbeit I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand: but I will make him prince all the days of his life for David my servant's sake, whom I chose, because he kept my commandments and my statutes:
35 But I will take the kingdom out of his son's hand, and will give it unto thee, even ten tribes.
36 And unto his son will I give one tribe, that David my servant may have a light alway before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen me to put my name there.
37 And I will take thee, and thou shalt reign according to all that thy soul desireth, and shalt be king over Israel.
38 And it shall be, if thou wilt hearken unto all that I command thee, and wilt walk in my ways, and do that is right in my sight, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as David my servant did; that I will be with thee, and build thee a sure house, as I built for David, and will give Israel unto thee.
39 And I will for this afflict the seed of David, but not for ever.
40 Solomon sought therefore to kill Jeroboam. And Jeroboam arose, and fled into Egypt, unto Shishak king of Egypt, and was in Egypt until the death of Solomon.
41 And the rest of the acts of Solomon, and all that he did, and his wisdom, are they not written in the book of the acts of Solomon?
42 And the time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel was forty years.
43 And Solomon slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David his father: and Rehoboam his son reigned in his stead.
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