1 Kings 11:12
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.
1 Kings 11:12 in other translations
| BSB | Nevertheless, 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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| WEB | Nevertheless, I will not do it in your days, for David your father’s sake; but I will tear it out of your son’s hand. |
| 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. |
| YLT | ‘Only, in thy days I do it not, for the sake of David thy father; out of the hand of thy son I rend it; |
| DARBY | notwithstanding in thy days I will not do it, for David thy father's sake; I will rend it out of the hand of thy son; |
| BBE | I will not do it in your life-time, because of your father David, but I will take it from your son. |
| Webster | 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. |
What does 1 Kings 11:12 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 1 Kings 11:9-12
9-12. the Lord was angry with Solomon--The divine appearance, first at Gibeon [1Ki 3:5], and then at Jerusalem [1Ki 9:2], after the dedication of the temple, with the warnings given him on both occasions [1Ki 3:11-14; 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…
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on 1 Kings 11:9-13
The Lord told Solomon, it is likely by a prophet, what he must expect for his apostacy. Though we have reason to hope that he repented, and found mercy, yet the Holy Ghost did not expressly record it, but left it doubtful, as a warning to others not to sin. The guilt may be taken away, but not the reproach; that will remain. Thus it must remain uncertain to us till the day of judgment, whether or not Solomon was…
1 Kings 11:12 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for 1 Kings 11:12
- Genesis 12:2
And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:
- Genesis 19:29
And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in the which Lot dwelt.
- 2 Kings 22:19-20
Because thine heart was tender, and thou hast humbled thyself before the Lord, when thou heardest what I spake against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and hast rent thy clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard thee, saith the Lord. Behold therefore, I will gather thee unto thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered into thy grave in peace; and thine eyes shall not see all the evil which I will bring upon this place. And they brought the king word again.
- 2 Kings 20:17
Behold, the days come, that all that is in thine house, and that which thy fathers have laid up in store unto this day, shall be carried into Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith the Lord.
- 2 Kings 20:19
Then said Hezekiah unto Isaiah, Good is the word of the Lord which thou hast spoken. And he said, Is it not good, if peace and truth be in my days?
- 1 Samuel 9:4-5
And he passed through mount Ephraim, and passed through the land of Shalisha, but they found them not: then they passed through the land of Shalim, and there they were not: and he passed through the land of the Benjamites, but they found them not. And when they were come to the land of Zuph, Saul said to his servant that was with him, Come, and let us return; lest my father leave caring for the asses, and take thought for us.
- Exodus 20:5
Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
- 1 Kings 21:29
Seest thou how Ahab humbleth himself before me? because he humbleth himself before me, I will not bring the evil in his days: but in his son’s days will I bring the evil upon his house.
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Context
- 1 Kings 11:11
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.
- 1 Kings 11:12
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.
- 1 Kings 11:13
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.
1 Kings 11:12 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Empero no lo haré en tus días, por amor de David tu padre: romperélo de la mano de tu hijo. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Seulement, je ne le ferai pas dans tes jours, à cause de David, ton père; mais je l’arracherai de la main de ton fils. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Doch in deinen Tagen will ich es nicht tun, um deines Vaters David willen: aus der Hand deines Sohnes werde ich es reißen; |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Verumtamen in diebus tuis non faciam propter David patrem tuum: de manu filii tui scindam illud, |