I Kings - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 359

zo Gabirah ; and the sister of Thakhfenis 21 22

4 24 26 28 bore him Genubah, his son, whom Thakhfeuis reared in the palace of Pharoh, so that Genubah was iu the circle of Pharoh’s palace, amongst the children of Pharoh. When Hadad heard in Egypt that

David was asleep with his fathers and that l ]’oab the Commander of his army was dead, Hadad said to Release me, and I will go to my own country} For what

reason ? You came to me ;—-then why should you seek to go to your N0! Yet releasing, let me go} (ac. 98o,) Quubitii appear in Qkram. GOD also raised him an enemy in

Rezan-ben~Alida who had ded from Hadadazer, king of Tzobah,1 his prince, and collected men to himself, and became General of a troop of mercenarieswith David. They after- wards went to Damascus and settled there, and he ruled . in Damascus. But he was_ an enemy to Israel in the time of Solomon beside the mischief of Hadad,—-and he was an annoyance to Israel, and reigned in Aram. (About not 980.) iiisiurg nf §2ruImut, sun uf £2I1ai. ]’erabam ·—ben-·-Nebat, also, an

Afrathite, of Tzarad, whose mothers name was Tzeruah, wife of Almanah an ofiicer of Solomon, rose to favour with the king. And· the reason why he rose to favour with King Solomon, was, when he was buildingthe fort- ress around the extent of the City of David, his father, the man. jerabam was energetic, and so Solomon noticed the youth, for he did thework well,,and he appointed him over all the builders of the house ofjoseph. But on one occasion when Jerabam

was going out of }erusalem, Akhiah the Reciter, the Shilonite, met him in the road, when he was clothed in a new robe, and bothwere alone in the open country, where Akhiah seized the new robe which was upon 1 The Delta of the Euphrates-?. F. him, and tore itvinto twelve pieces, and exclaimed to jerabam, You take ten pieces! for thus

says, the Evnamrvmo Gov of Israel, ‘ I will tear the kingship from the hand of Solomon, and I will give to you ten of the tribes! But the one tribe of Judah to him, because of My servant David, and because of ]eru· salem the city I have chosen from all the tribes of Israel,—-··because he has forsaken Me, and worshipped Ashtaroth, the goddess of Zidon, and Kemosh the god of Moab, and Milkom the god of Beni-Amon, and has not walked in My paths to do right in My sight, according to My Institutions and Decrees, like his father David. I will not, however, take all the kingship from his hand, he shall remain supreme all the time of his life, because of David My ser- vant, whom I chose, who regarded My commands and My institutions. Yet I shall take the kingship from the hand of his son, and give you the ten tribes. But to his son I shall give one tribe, so that_ there may be a light to David My servant at all times before Me in jerusalem, the city which I have chosen to Myself to fix My Name there. Thus I will take you, and you shall reign in all that your soul desires, and you shall be king over Israel. And then if you listen to all I command you, and walk in My way, and do right in My sight, by preserving My Institutions and Commandments, as David My servant did, I will be withlyou and build you a permanent House, as I have built for David, and I will give Israel to you. And I depress the race of David because of —this-··—but Solomon consequently sought to

kill jerabam, so jerabam arose and fled to Mitzer to Shishak, king of the Mitzeraim, and continued in .Mitzer until 'the death of Solomon. (ac. 975.) grail; nf Sulnmnu. As to the rest of the affairs of

Solomon, and all that he did, and_his wisdom, are they not written in the history of the events ofjSolomon? But thetime that Solomon reigned

in jerusalem over Israel was forty years. Then Solomon slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of his father David, and Rekhabam his son reigned in his place. 359 33 34 35 37 39 43