1 Kings 11:11 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

The Lord said unto Solomon; either by suggestion to his mind, or by appearance to him in a terrible manner, or by the prophet Ahijah, of whom 1 Kings 11:29. I will surely rend; I will violently take away. The word in the Hebrew is doubled, for the greater assurance of the thing. To thy servant; to one of thy servants and subjects, which was Jeroboam, 1 Kings 11:26, &c.

1 Kings 11:11

11 Wherefore the LORD said unto Solomon, Forasmuch as this is done of thee, and thou hast not kept my covenant and my statutes, which I have commanded thee, I will surely rend the kingdom from thee, and will give it to thy servant.