1 Re 11:13

13 Nondimeno, io non istraccerò tutto il reame; io ne darò una tribù al tuo figliuolo, per amor di Davide, mio servitore; e per amor di Gerusalemme, che io ho eletta.

1 Re 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 Re 11:13 In-Context

11 E il Signore disse a Salomone: Perciocchè questo è stato in te, e tu non hai osservato il mio patto, ed i miei statuti, i quali io ti avea imposti; io del tutto straccerò il reame d’addosso a te, e lo darò al tuo servitore.

12 Ma pure, per amor di Davide, tuo padre, io non farò questo a’ tuoi dì; io lo straccerò d’infra le mani del tuo figliuolo.

13 Nondimeno, io non istraccerò tutto il reame; io ne darò una tribù al tuo figliuolo, per amor di Davide, mio servitore; e per amor di Gerusalemme, che io ho eletta.

14 IL Signore adunque fece sorgere un avversario a Salomone, cioè Hadad Idumeo, ch’era del sangue reale di Edom.

15 Perciocchè avvenne, quando Davide era in Idumea, allora che Ioab, Capo dell’esercito, salì per far sotterrar gli uccisi, e percosse tutti i maschi d’Idumea