1 Kings 11:13

God would not take the whole kingdom but leave one tribe to David's line for David's and Jerusalem's sake. It preserves the messianic promise amid judgment.

Cross-references · 25

• 1 Kgs 12:20When all Israel heard that Jeroboam had returned, they summoned him to the assembly and made him king over all Israel. Only the tribe of Judah followed the house of David.
• Deut 12:11then the LORD your God will choose a dwelling for His Name. And there you are to bring everything I command you: your burnt offerings and sacrifices, your tithes and special gifts, and all the choice offerings you vow to the LORD.
• 1 Kgs 11:32But one tribe will remain 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.
• Ps 132:13–14For the LORD has chosen Zion; He has desired it for His home:
• Luke 1:32–33He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give Him the throne of His father David,
• Deut 12:5Instead, you must seek the place the LORD your God will choose from among all your tribes to establish as a dwelling for His Name, and there you must go.
• Jer 33:15–26In those days and at that time I will cause to sprout for David a righteous Branch, and He will administer justice and righteousness in the land.
• Isa 62:7nor give Him any rest until He establishes Jerusalem and makes her the praise of the earth.
• 1 Kgs 11:11–12Then the LORD said to Solomon, “Because you have done this and have not kept My covenant and My statutes, which I have commanded you, I will tear the kingdom away from you and give it to your servant.
• 1 Kgs 11:35–36But I will take ten tribes of the kingdom from the hand of his son and give them to you.
• Isa 14:32What answer will be given to the envoys of that nation? “The LORD has founded Zion, where His afflicted people will find refuge.”
• 2 Kgs 21:4Manasseh also built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, “In Jerusalem I will put My Name.”
• 2 Sam 7:15–16But My loving devotion will never be removed from him as I removed it from Saul, whom I moved out of your way.
• Isa 62:1For Zion’s sake I will not keep silent, and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not keep still, until her righteousness shines like a bright light, her salvation like a blazing torch.
• 2 Kgs 13:23But the LORD was gracious to Israel and had compassion on them, and He turned toward them because of His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. And to this day, the LORD has been unwilling to destroy them or cast them from His presence.
• Ps 89:49Where, O Lord, is Your loving devotion of old, which You faithfully swore to David?
• Ps 89:33–37But I will not withdraw My loving devotion from him, nor ever betray My faithfulness.
• 1 Kgs 11:39Because of this, I will humble David’s descendants—but not forever.’”
• Ps 132:1A song of ascents. O LORD, remember on behalf of David all the hardships he endured,
• 2 Kgs 23:27For the LORD had said, “I will remove Judah from My sight, just as I removed Israel. I will reject this city Jerusalem, which I chose, and the temple of which I said, ‘My Name shall be there.’”
• 1 Chr 17:13–14I will be his Father, and he will be My son. And I will never remove My loving devotion from him as I removed it from your predecessor.
• Deut 9:5It is not because of your righteousness or uprightness of heart that you are going in to possess their land, but it is because of their wickedness that the LORD your God is driving out these nations before you, to keep the promise He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
• Isa 9:7Of the increase of His government and peace there will be no end. He will reign on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish and sustain it with justice and righteousness from that time and forevermore. The zeal of the LORD of Hosts will accomplish this.
• Ps 132:17There I will make a horn grow for David; I have prepared a lamp for My anointed one.
• 2 Kgs 19:34‘I will defend this city and save it for My own sake and for the sake of My servant David.’”

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