12 However, I will not do it during your lifetime for the sake of your father David;(A) I will tear it out of your son’s hand. 13 Yet I will not tear the entire kingdom away from him. I will give one tribe to your son(B) for the sake of my servant David and for the sake of Jerusalem that I chose.”

Solomon’s Enemies

14 So the Lord raised up(C) Hadad the Edomite as an enemy against Solomon. He was of the royal family in Edom.

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