(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);
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(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);
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(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:)
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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 —
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Passages linked to 1 Kings 11:32 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- 1 Kings 11:13 However I will not tear away all the kingdom; but I will give one tribe to your son, for David my servant’s sake, and for Jerusalem’s sake which I have chosen.”
- 1 Kings 12:20-21 When all Israel heard that Jeroboam had returned, they sent and called him to the congregation, and made him king over all Israel. There was no one who followed David’s house, except for the tribe of Judah only. When Rehoboam had come to Jerusalem, he assembled all the house of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin, a hundred and eighty thousand chosen men, who were warriors, to fight against the house of Israel, to bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam the son of Solomon.
- 1 Kings 14:21 Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which Yahweh had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonitess.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 1Ki 11:32 (But he shall have one tribe for…
1Ki 11:32 (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:)
Ver. 32. For my servant David’s sake.] See on 1Ki 11:13.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain See Poole "1Ki 11:13"
See Poole "1Ki 11:13"
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Howbeit, I will not take the kingdom out of…
Howbeit, I will not take the kingdom out of his hand,.... Not any part of it, Kg1 11:12,
but I will make him prince all the days of his life; that is, he shall continue to hold the government of all the tribes so long as he lives:
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for David my servant's sake, whom I chose, because he kept my commandments and my statutes; see Kg1 11:12, or was well pleased with, as the Targum; for keeping the commands of God from right principles, and with right views, is well pleasing to him.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 32. he shall have one tribe] Benjamin was so…
32. he shall have one tribe] Benjamin was so small a tribe as scarcely to be worth counting. Judah was to give name to the southern part of the divided kingdom. The LXX. says “two tribes,” which seems to be a correction introduced by the translators. See above on 1Ki_11:13. All the other versions speak of ‘one tribe’, and so does the LXX. in 1Ki_11:13.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain But he shall have one tribe LXX duo skhptra.…
But he shall have one tribe LXX duo skhptra. Some would understand "one tribe, in addition to Judah," but compare 1Ki_12:20, "tribe of Judah only," and see note on ver. 13. Possibly neither Judah nor Benjamin is here to be thought of separately. In 1Ki_12:21, and, 2Ch_11:3, 2Ch_11:23, they are both reckoned to Rehoboam. They might be regarded as in some sense one, inasmuch as they enclosed the Holy City (Seb. Schmidt) the line of division passing right through the temple platform. But it is perhaps safer, in view of 1Ki_12:20, to understand the term of Judah, compared with which large and influential tribe "little Benjamin" was hardly deserving of separate mention for my servant David"s sake, and for Jerusalem"s sake see on vers. 12, 13, the city which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel.
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