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1 Kings 11:37-43 English Standard Version (ESV)

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.

39. And I will afflict the offspring of David because of this, but not forever.’”

40. Solomon sought therefore to kill Jeroboam. But Jeroboam arose and fled into Egypt, to Shishak king of Egypt, and was in Egypt until the death of Solomon.

41. Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, and all that he did, and his wisdom, are they not written in the Book of the Acts of Solomon?

42. And the time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel was forty years.

43. And Solomon slept with his fathers and was buried in the city of David his father. And Rehoboam his son reigned in his place.

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