1 Rois 11:13

13 Toutefois je n'arracherai pas tout le royaume; j'en donnerai une tribu à ton fils pour l'amour de David, mon serviteur, et pour l'amour de Jérusalem que j'ai choisie.

1 Rois 11:13 Meaning and Commentary

1 Kings 11:13

Howbeit, I will not rend away all the kingdom
The whole kingdom of Israel:

but will give one tribe to thy son;
but it seems he had both Benjamin and Judah, and only ten tribes were rent from him; the reason of this mode of expression may be, either because he gave him one of the tribes of Israel, besides that of Judah, which was his own tribe; or only the tribe of Judah is meant, the whole tribe of Benjamin not being his, since Bethel, and some other places in that tribe, were in the possession of Jeroboam; or rather both these are called but one, because their inheritances lay together, and were mixed with one another; and particularly both had a share in the city of Jerusalem, and the kingdom always after the division went by the name of Judah only: and this tribe was given

for David my servant's sake;
because of the promise to him, that there should not want one of his seed to sit on his throne, ( 1 Kings 9:5 )

and for Jerusalem's sake, whom I have chosen;
to have the house of his sanctuary and worship in, and therefore thought fit to have one rule there, that, would have a regard to his service in it.

1 Rois 11:13 In-Context

11 Et l'Éternel dit à Salomon: Puisque tu as agi ainsi, et que tu n'as pas gardé mon alliance et mes ordonnances que je t'avais données, je t'arracherai certainement le royaume et je le donnerai à ton serviteur.

12 Seulement, pour l'amour de David, ton père, je ne le ferai point pendant ta vie; c'est des mains de ton fils que je l'arracherai.

13 Toutefois je n'arracherai pas tout le royaume; j'en donnerai une tribu à ton fils pour l'amour de David, mon serviteur, et pour l'amour de Jérusalem que j'ai choisie.

14 L'Éternel suscita donc un ennemi à Salomon: Hadad, Iduméen, qui était de la race royale d'Édom.

15 Dans le temps que David était en Édom, lorsque Joab, chef de l'armée, monta pour ensevelir ceux qui avaient été tués, il tua tous les mâles d'Édom.