1 Re 11:13

13 Però, non gli strapperò tutto il reame, ma lascerò una tribù al tuo figliuolo, per amor di Davide mio servo, e per amor di Gerusalemme che io ho scelta".

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 l’Eterno disse a Salomone: "Giacché tu hai agito a questo modo, e non hai osservato il mio patto e le leggi che t’avevo date, io ti strapperò di dosso il reame, e lo darò al tuo servo.

12 Nondimeno, per amor di Davide tuo padre, io non lo farò te vivente, ma lo strapperò dalle mani del tuo figliuolo.

13 Però, non gli strapperò tutto il reame, ma lascerò una tribù al tuo figliuolo, per amor di Davide mio servo, e per amor di Gerusalemme che io ho scelta".

14 L’Eterno suscitò un nemico a Salomone: Hadad, l’Idumeo, ch’era della stirpe reale di Edom.

15 Quando Davide sconfisse Edom, e Joab, capo dell’esercito, salì per seppellire i morti, e uccise tutti i maschi che erano in Edom;