1 Kings 11:12

12 However, I will not do it in your days, for the sake of David your father; from the hand of your son I will tear it [away].

1 Kings 11:12 Meaning and Commentary

1 Kings 11:12

Notwithstanding in thy days I will not do it for David thy
father's sake
Not for the merits of David, but the promises made to him, ( 2 Samuel 7:12 2 Samuel 7:13 ) ,

but I will rend it out of the hand of thy son;
and immediate successor, Rehoboam.

1 Kings 11:12 In-Context

10 And he had commanded him concerning this matter not to go after other gods, but he did not keep that which Yahweh commanded.

11 So Yahweh said to Solomon, "Because this was with you, and you did not keep my covenant and my ordinances which I have commanded you, I will certainly tear the kingdom from you, and I will give it to your servant.

12 However, I will not do it in your days, for the sake of David your father; from the hand of your son I will tear it [away].

13 Yet all of the kingdom I will not tear [away]. I will give one tribe to your son for the sake of my servant David and for the sake of Jerusalem which I have chosen."

14 Then Yahweh raised an adversary against Solomon, Hadad the Edomite, from the descendants of that king in Edom.