1 Kings 11:12

New American Bible - revised edition

But I will not do this during your lifetime, for the sake of David your father; I will tear it away from your son’s hand.

Cross References

Genesis 12:2

I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.

Genesis 19:29

When God destroyed the cities of the Plain, he remembered Abraham and sent Lot away from the upheaval that occurred when God overthrew the cities where Lot had been living. Moabites and Ammonites.

1 Kings 11:11

So the Lord said to Solomon: Since this is what you want, and you have not kept my covenant and the statutes which I enjoined on you, I will surely tear the kingdom away from you and give it to your servant.

1 Kings 11:13

Nor will I tear away the whole kingdom. I will give your son one tribe for the sake of David my servant and for the sake of Jerusalem, which I have chosen. Threats to Solomon’s Kingdom.

1 Kings 11:31

and said to Jeroboam: “Take ten pieces for yourself. Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: I am about to tear the kingdom out of Solomon’s hand and will give you ten of the tribes.

1 Kings 11:32

He shall have one tribe for the sake of my servant David, and for the sake of Jerusalem, the city I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel.

1 Kings 11:34

Yet I will not take any of the kingdom from Solomon himself, but will keep him a prince as long as he lives, for the sake of David my servant, whom I have chosen, who kept my commandments and statutes.

1 Kings 11:35

But I will take the kingdom from his son’s hand and give it to you—that is, the ten tribes.

1 Kings 21:29

Have you seen how Ahab has humbled himself before me? Since he has humbled himself before me, I will not bring the evil in his time. I will bring the evil upon his house in his son’s time.

2 Kings 19:34

I will shield and save this city for my own sake and the sake of David my servant.”

2 Kings 20:17

The time is coming when all that is in your house, everything that your ancestors have stored up until this day, shall be carried off to Babylon; nothing shall be left, says the Lord.

2 Kings 20:19

Hezekiah replied to Isaiah, “The word of the Lord which you have spoken is good.” For he thought, “There will be peace and stability in my lifetime.”

2 Kings 8:19

Even so, the Lord was unwilling to destroy Judah, for the sake of his servant David. For he had promised David that he would leave him a holding in the Lord’s presence for all time.

Exodus 20:5

you shall not bow down before them or serve them. For I, the Lord, your God, am a jealous God, inflicting punishment for their ancestors’ wickedness on the children of those who hate me, down to the third and fourth generation;