1 Kings 11:12 “Nevertheless, for the sake of your father David, I will not do it duri…”

1 Kings 11:12

Nevertheless, for the sake of your father David, I will not do it during your lifetime; I will tear it out of the hand of your son.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Notwithstanding in thy days I will not do it for David thy father’s sake: but I will rend it out of the hand of thy son.

World English Bible

Nevertheless, I will not do it in your days, for David your father’s sake; but I will tear it out of your son’s hand.

American Standard Version

Notwithstanding in thy days I will not do it, for David thy father’s sake: but I will rend it out of the hand of thy son.

Geneva Bible 1599

Notwithstanding in thy dayes I will not doe it, because of Dauid thy father, but I will rent it out of the hand of thy sonne:

Darby Translation

notwithstanding in thy days I will not do it, for David thy father's sake; I will rend it out of the hand of thy son;

Young's Literal Translation

'Only, in thy days I do it not, for the sake of David thy father; out of the hand of thy son I rend it;

Bible in Basic English

I will not do it in your life-time, because of your father David, but I will take it from your son.

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Cross references

“in thy days”

1 Kings 21:29 2 Kings 20:17 2 Kings 20:19 2 Kings 22:19 2 Kings 22:20

1 Kings 21:29 · BSB

“Have you seen how Ahab has humbled himself before Me? Because he has humbled himself before Me, I will not bring the calamity during his days, but I will bring it upon his house in the days of his son.”

2 Kings 20:17 · BSB

The time will surely come when everything in your palace and all that your fathers have stored up until this day will be carried off to Babylon. Nothing will be left, says the LORD.

2 Kings 20:19 · BSB

But Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “The word of the LORD that you have spoken is good.” For he thought, “Will there not at least be peace and security in my lifetime?”

2 Kings 22:19 · BSB

because your heart was tender and you humbled yourself before the LORD when you heard what I spoke against this place and against its people, that they would become a desolation and a curse, and because you have torn you…

2 Kings 22:20 · BSB

‘Therefore I will indeed gather you to your fathers, and you will be gathered to your grave in peace. Your eyes will not see all the calamity that I will bring on this place.’” So they brought her answer back to the king…

“for David”

Genesis 12:2 Genesis 19:29 1 Samuel 9:4 1 Samuel 9:5

Genesis 12:2 · BSB

I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.

Genesis 19:29 · BSB

So when God destroyed the cities of the plain, He remembered Abraham, and He brought Lot out of the catastrophe that destroyed the cities where he had lived.

1 Samuel 9:4 · BSB

So Saul passed through the hill country of Ephraim and then through the land of Shalishah, but they did not find the donkeys. He and the servant went through the region of Shaalim, but they were not there. Then they went…

1 Samuel 9:5 · BSB

When they reached the land of Zuph, Saul said to his servant, “Come, let us go back, or my father will stop worrying about the donkeys and start worrying about us.”

“I will rend it out”

Exodus 20:5

Exodus 20:5 · BSB

You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on their children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

11Then the LORD said to Solomon, “Because you have done this and have not kept My covenant and My statutes, which I have commanded you, I will tear the kingdom away from you and give it to your servant.

13Yet I will not tear the whole kingdom away from him. 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.”

Read 1 Kings 11