1 Kings 11:30

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And Ahijah took his new robe in his hands, parting it violently into twelve.

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  • 1 Sam 15:27-28 : 27 And when Samuel was turning round to go away, Saul took the skirt of his robe in his hand, and the cloth came away. 28 And Samuel said to him, The Lord has taken away the kingdom of Israel from you this day by force, and has given it to a neighbour of yours who is better than you.
  • 1 Sam 24:4-5 : 4 And on the way he came to a place where sheep were kept, where there was a hollow in the rock; and Saul went in for a private purpose. Now David and his men were in the deepest part of the hollow. 5 And David's men said to him, Now is the time when the Lord says to you, I will give up your hater into your hands to do with him whatever seems good to you. Then David, getting up, took the skirt of Saul's robe in his hand, cutting off the end of it without his knowledge.

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  • 1 Kgs 11:28-29
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    85%

    28 And Jeroboam was an able and responsible man; and Solomon saw that he was a good worker and made him overseer of all the work given to the sons of Joseph.

    29 Now at that time, when Jeroboam was going out of Jerusalem, the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite came across him on the road; now Ahijah had put on a new robe; and the two of them were by themselves in the open country.

  • 1 Kgs 11:31
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    31 And he said to Jeroboam, Take ten of the parts, for this is what the Lord has said: See, I will take the kingdom away from Solomon by force, and will give ten tribes to you;

  • 2 Sam 1:11
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    11 Then David gave way to bitter grief, and so did all the men who were with him:

  • 1 Sam 15:27-28
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    75%

    27 And when Samuel was turning round to go away, Saul took the skirt of his robe in his hand, and the cloth came away.

    28 And Samuel said to him, The Lord has taken away the kingdom of Israel from you this day by force, and has given it to a neighbour of yours who is better than you.

  • 2 Kgs 22:11
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    11 And the king, hearing the words of the book of the law, took his robe in his hands, violently parting it as a sign of his grief;

  • 1 Kgs 11:11-13
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    73%

    11 So the Lord said to Solomon, Because you have done this, and have not kept my agreement and my laws, which I gave you, I will take the kingdom away from you by force and will give it to your servant.

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

    13 Still I will not take all the kingdom from him; but I will give one tribe to your son, because of my servant David, and because of Jerusalem, the town of my selection.

  • 2 Sam 13:31
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    31 Then the king got up in great grief, stretching himself out on the earth: and all his servants were by his side, with their clothing parted.

  • 2 Chr 34:19
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    19 And the king, hearing the words of the law, took his robe in his hands, violently parting it as a sign of his grief.

  • 2 Kgs 5:8
    72%

    8 Now Elisha, the man of God, hearing that the king of Israel had done this, sent to the king, saying, Why are you troubled? send the man to me, so that he may see that there is a prophet in Israel.

  • 2 Kgs 17:21
    72%

    21 For Israel was broken off from the family of David, and they made Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, king, who, driving them away from the laws of the Lord, made them do a great sin.

  • 2 Kgs 6:30
    71%

    30 Then the king, hearing what the woman said, took his robes in his hands, violently parting them; and, while he was walking on the wall, the people, looking, saw that under his robe he had haircloth on his flesh.

  • 2 Kgs 2:12
    71%

    12 And when Elisha saw it he gave a cry, My father, my father, the carriages of Israel and its horsemen! And he saw him no longer; and he was full of grief.

  • 1 Kgs 13:5
    70%

    5 And the altar was broken and the burned waste on it overturned; this was the sign which the man of God had given by the word of the Lord.

  • Exod 39:23
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    23 With a hole at the top in the middle, like the hole in the coat of a fighting-man, edged with a band to make it strong.

  • 1 Kgs 14:2
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    2 And Jeroboam said to his wife, Now come, put on different clothing so that you may not seem to be the wife of Jeroboam, and go to Shiloh; see, Ahijah is there, the prophet who said I would be king over this people.

  • 1 Kgs 14:4-8
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    68%

    4 So Jeroboam's wife did so, and got up and went to Shiloh and came to the house of Ahijah. Now Ahijah was unable to see, because he was very old.

    5 And the Lord had said to Ahijah, The wife of Jeroboam is coming to get news from you about her son, who is ill; give her such and such an answer; for she will make herself seem to be another woman.

    6 Then Ahijah, hearing the sound of her footsteps coming in at the door, said, Come in, O wife of Jeroboam; why do you make yourself seem like another? for I am sent to you with bitter news.

    7 Go, say to Jeroboam, These are the words of the Lord, the God of Israel: Though I took you from among the people, lifting you up to be a ruler over my people Israel,

    8 And took the kingdom away by force from the seed of David and gave it to you, you have not been like my servant David, who kept my orders, and was true to me with all his heart, doing only what was right in my eyes.

  • 1 Kgs 13:34
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    34 And this became a sin in the family of Jeroboam, causing it to be cut off and sent to destruction from the face of the earth.

  • Mark 2:21
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    21 No man puts a bit of new cloth on an old coat: or the new, by pulling away from the old, makes a worse hole.

  • Luke 5:36
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    36 And he said to them, in a story, No man takes a bit of cloth from a new coat and puts it on to an old coat, for so the new coat would be damaged and the bit from the new would not go well with the old.

  • 1 Kgs 11:35
    68%

    35 But I will take the kingdom from his son, and give it to you.

  • 1 Kgs 21:27
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    27 Hearing these words, Ahab, in great grief, put haircloth on his flesh and went without food, sleeping in haircloth, and going about quietly.

  • Isa 37:1
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    1 And on hearing it Hezekiah took off his robe and put on haircloth and went into the house of the Lord.

  • 2 Kgs 19:1
    67%

    1 And on hearing it, King Hezekiah took off his robe, and put on haircloth, and went into the house of the Lord.

  • Matt 9:16
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    16 And no man puts a bit of new cloth on an old coat, for by pulling away from the old, it makes a worse hole.

  • 1 Kgs 12:15-16
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    67%

    15 So the king did not give ear to the people; and this came about by the purpose of the Lord, so that what he had said by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam, son of Nebat, might be effected.

    16 And when all Israel saw that the king would give no attention to them, the people in answer said to the king, What part have we in David? what is our heritage in the son of Jesse? to your tents, O Israel; now see to your people, David. So Israel went away to their tents.

  • 1 Kgs 12:26
    67%

    26 And Jeroboam said in his heart, Now the kingdom will go back to the family of David:

  • 1 Kgs 12:2
    67%

    2 And, hearing of it, Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, who was still in Egypt, where he had gone in flight from Solomon, and was living there, came back to his town Zeredah, in the hill-country of Ephraim;

  • 1 Kgs 12:20
    67%

    20 Now when all Israel had news that Jeroboam had come back, they sent for him to come before the meeting of the people, and made him king over Israel: not one of them was joined to the family of David but only the tribe of Judah.

  • 1 Kgs 14:14
    67%

    14 And the Lord will put up a king over Israel who will send destruction on the family of Jeroboam in that day;

  • Zech 11:14
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    14 Then I took my other rod, the one named Bands, cutting it in two, so that the relation of brothers between Judah and Israel might be broken.

  • Ezra 9:3
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    3 And hearing this, with signs of grief and pulling out the hair of my head and my chin, I took my seat on the earth deeply troubled.

  • 2 Chr 10:15
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    15 So the king did not give ear to the people; for this came about by the purpose of God, so that the Lord might give effect to his word which he had said by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam, the son of Nebat.

  • 2 Chr 13:15
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    15 And the men of Judah gave a loud cry; and at their cry, God put fear into Jeroboam and all Israel before Abijah and Judah.

  • 1 Kgs 13:3
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    3 The same day he gave them a sign, saying, This is the sign which the Lord has given: See, the altar will be broken and the burned waste on it overturned.

  • Gen 37:33
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    33 And he saw that it was, and said, It is my son's coat; an evil beast has put him to death; without doubt Joseph has come to a cruel end.

  • 2 Chr 11:3
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    3 Say to Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all Israel in Judah and Benjamin,

  • Zech 11:10
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    10 And I took my rod Beautiful, cutting it in two, so that the Lord's agreement, which he had made with all the peoples, might be broken.

  • 1 Sam 28:17
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    17 And the Lord himself has done what I said: the Lord has taken the kingdom out of your hand and given it to your neighbour David;

  • Deut 22:11
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    11 Do not have clothing made of two sorts of thread, wool and linen together.

  • Num 14:6
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    6 And Joshua, the son of Nun, and Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, two of those who had been to see the land, giving signs of grief,