1 Könige 11:13

13 Doch ich will nicht das ganze Reich abreißen; einen Stamm will ich deinem Sohn geben um Davids willen, meines Knechtes, 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 Darum sprach der HERR zu Salomo: Weil solches bei dir geschehen ist, und hast meinen Bund und meine Gebote nicht gehalten, die ich dir geboten habe, so will ich auch das Königreich von dir reißen und deinem Knecht geben.

12 Doch bei deiner Zeit will ich's nicht tun um deines Vaters David willen; sondern von der Hand deines Sohnes will ich's reißen.

13 Doch ich will nicht das ganze Reich abreißen; einen Stamm will ich deinem Sohn geben um Davids willen, meines Knechtes, und um Jerusalems willen, das ich erwählt habe.

14 Und der HERR erweckte Salomo einen Widersacher, Hadad, den Edomiter, vom königlichen Geschlecht in Edom.

15 Denn da David in Edom war und Joab, der Feldhauptmann, hinaufzog, die Erschlagenen zu begraben, schlug er was ein Mannsbild war in Edom.