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 Yerushalayim's sake which I have chosen.
1 Kings 12:17 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) But as for the children of Yisra'el who lived in the cities of Yehudah, Rechav`am reigned over them. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 But as for the children of Israel which dwelt in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition But Rehoboam reigned over the Israelites who dwelt in the cities of Judah. American Standard Version (1901) But as for the children of Israel that dwelt in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them. Common English Bible and Rehoboam ruled over only the Israelites who lived in the cities of Judah. Catholic Public Domain Version But over all the sons of Israel who were living in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version But as for all the children of Israel that dwelt in the cities of Juda, Roboam reigned over them. |
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 Yerushalayim's sake which I have chosen.
but I will take the kingdom out of his son's hand, and will give it to you, even ten tribes.
To his son will I give one tribe, that David my servant may have a lamp always before me in Yerushalayim, the city which I have chosen me to put my name there.
Speak to Rechav`am the son of Shlomo, king of Yehudah, and to all the house of Yehudah and Binyamin, and to the rest of the people, saying,
Rechav`am the son of Shlomo reigned in Yehudah. Rechav`am was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Yerushalayim, the city which the LORD had chosen out of all the tribes of Yisra'el, to put his name there: and his mother's name was Na`amah the `Ammonite.
But as for the children of Yisra'el who lived in the cities of Yehudah, Rechav`am reigned over them.