1 Könige 11:13

13 nur will ich ihm nicht das ganze Königreich entreißen: einen Stamm will ich deinem Sohne geben, um meines Knechtes David willen und um Jerusalems willen, das ich erwählt habe.

1 Könige 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 Könige 11:13 In-Context

11 Und Jehova sprach zu Salomo: Darum daß solches bei dir gewesen ist, und du meinen Bund nicht beobachtest hast und meine Satzungen, die ich dir geboten habe, so werde ich dir das Königreich gewißlich entreißen und es deinem Knechte geben.

12 Doch in deinen Tagen will ich es nicht tun, um deines Vaters David willen: aus der Hand deines Sohnes werde ich es reißen;

13 nur will ich ihm nicht das ganze Königreich entreißen: einen Stamm will ich deinem Sohne geben, um meines Knechtes David willen und um Jerusalems willen, das ich erwählt habe.

14 Und Jehova erweckte Salomo einen Widersacher, Hadad, den Edomiter; er war vom königlichen Samen in Edom.

15 Es geschah nämlich, als David in Edom war, als Joab, der Heeroberste, hinaufzog, um die Erschlagenen zu begraben, und er alles Männliche in Edom erschlug