1 Kings 11:35-12:5

New International Version

³⁵I will take the kingdom from his son’s hands and give you ten tribes. ³⁶I will give one tribe^(A) to his son so that David my servant may always have a lamp^(B) before me in Jerusalem, the city where I chose to put my Name. ³⁷However, as for you, I will take you, and you will rule^(C) over all that your heart desires;^(D) you will be king over Israel. ³⁸If you do whatever I command you and walk in obedience to me and do what is right^(E) in my eyes by obeying my decrees^(F) and commands, as David my servant did, I will be with you. I will build you a dynasty^(G) as enduring as the one I built for David and will give Israel to you. ³⁹I will humble David’s descendants because of this, but not forever.’”

⁴⁰Solomon tried to kill Jeroboam, but Jeroboam fled^(H) to Egypt, to Shishak^(I) the king, and stayed there until Solomon’s death.

Solomon’s Death^(J)

⁴¹As for the other events of Solomon’s reign—all he did and the wisdom he displayed—are they not written in the book of the annals of Solomon? ⁴²Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years. ⁴³Then he rested with his ancestors and was buried in the city of David his father. And Rehoboam^(K) his son succeeded him as king.

Israel Rebels Against Rehoboam^(L)

12 Rehoboam went to Shechem,^(M) for all Israel had gone there to make him king. ²When Jeroboam son of Nebat heard this (he was still in Egypt, where he had fled^(N) from King Solomon), he returned from^[a] Egypt. ³So they sent for Jeroboam, and he and the whole assembly of Israel went to Rehoboam and said to him: ⁴“Your father put a heavy yoke^(O) on us, but now lighten the harsh labor and the heavy yoke he put on us, and we will serve you.”