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1 Kings 11:34-38 English Standard Version (ESV)

34. Nevertheless, I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand, but I will make him ruler all the days of his life, for the sake of David my servant whom I chose, who kept my commandments and my statutes.

35. But I will take the kingdom out of his son’s hand and will give it to you, ten tribes.

36. Yet to his son I will give one tribe, that David my servant may always have a lamp before me in Jerusalem, the city where I have chosen to put my name.

37. And I will take you, and you shall reign over all that your soul desires, and you shall be king over Israel.

38. And if you will listen to all that I command you, and will walk in my ways, and do what is right in my eyes by keeping my statutes and my commandments, as David my servant did, I will be with you and will build you a sure house, as I built for David, and I will give Israel to you.

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