1 Kings 11:32

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'But one tribe will remain for the sake of my servant David and for the sake of Jerusalem, the city I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel.'

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  • 1 Kgs 11:13 : 13 'However, I will not tear away the entire kingdom. I will give one tribe to your son for the sake of David My servant and for the sake of Jerusalem, which I have chosen.'
  • 1 Kgs 12:20-21 : 20 When all Israel heard that Jeroboam had returned, they sent for him and called him to the assembly and made him king over all Israel. Only the tribe of Judah remained loyal to the house of David. 21 When Rehoboam arrived in Jerusalem, he assembled all the house of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin—a total of 180,000 able young men to go to war against Israel and to regain the kingdom for Rehoboam son of Solomon.
  • 1 Kgs 14:21 : 21 Rehoboam son of Solomon reigned in Judah. He was forty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city the LORD had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel to put His Name there. His mother’s name was Naamah; she was an Ammonite.

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  • 1 Kgs 11:11-13
    3 verses
    87%

    11So the LORD said to Solomon, 'Since this is your attitude and you have not kept My covenant and decrees, which I commanded you, I will surely tear the kingdom away from you and give it to one of your subordinates.'

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

    13'However, I will not tear away the entire kingdom. I will give one tribe to your son for the sake of David My servant and for the sake of Jerusalem, which I have chosen.'

  • 1 Kgs 11:33-39
    7 verses
    85%

    33'For they have forsaken Me and worshiped Ashtoreth, the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh, the god of Moab, and Milcom, the god of the Ammonites. They have not walked in My ways, done what is right in My sight, or kept My statutes and judgments as David, his father, did.'

    34'However, I will not take the whole kingdom from him but will allow him to remain ruler all his life for the sake of my servant David, whom I chose and who kept My commands and statutes.'

    35'I will take the kingdom out of his son’s hand and give you ten tribes.'

    36'But to his son, I will give one tribe, so that My servant David may always have a lamp before Me in Jerusalem, the city I have chosen for Myself to put My name there.'

    37I will take you, and you will reign over all that your heart desires, and you will be king over Israel.

    38If you listen to all that I command you and walk in My ways, doing what is right in My eyes by keeping My statutes and commands, as My servant David did, then I will be with you. I will build you a sure house, as I built for David, and I will give Israel to you.

    39I will humble David’s descendants because of this, but not forever.

  • 2 Chr 6:5-6
    2 verses
    79%

    5'From the day I brought My people out of the land of Egypt, I chose no city from any of the tribes of Israel to build a house for My name to be there, nor did I choose any man to be a ruler over My people Israel.

    6But I have chosen Jerusalem for My name to be there, and I have chosen David to rule over My people Israel.'

  • 1 Kgs 8:16
    78%

    16'Since the day I brought My people Israel out of Egypt, I have not chosen a city from all the tribes of Israel to build a house where My name might be, but I chose David to rule My people Israel.'

  • 1 Kgs 11:31
    76%

    31Then he said to Jeroboam, 'Take ten pieces for yourself, for this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: Behold, I am about to tear the kingdom out of Solomon’s hand and give you ten tribes.'

  • 1 Chr 28:4-5
    2 verses
    75%

    4Yet the LORD, the God of Israel, chose me out of all my father's house to be king over Israel forever. He chose Judah as leader, and within the house of Judah, He was pleased to choose my father's family. And among the sons of my father, He was pleased with me to make me king over all Israel.

    5Of all my sons—for the LORD has given me many sons—He has chosen my son Solomon to sit on the throne of the LORD’s kingdom over Israel.

  • Ps 132:13
    73%

    13For the LORD has chosen Zion; He has desired it for His dwelling place:

  • Ps 78:67-68
    2 verses
    73%

    67He rejected the tent of Joseph and did not choose the tribe of Ephraim.

    68But He chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion, which He loved.

  • 1 Kgs 12:20
    73%

    20When all Israel heard that Jeroboam had returned, they sent for him and called him to the assembly and made him king over all Israel. Only the tribe of Judah remained loyal to the house of David.

  • Deut 18:5
    72%

    5For the LORD your God has chosen him and his sons out of all your tribes to stand and minister in the name of the LORD forever.

  • Jer 33:17
    71%

    17For this is what the Lord says: David will never fail to have a man to sit on the throne of the house of Israel.

  • 1 Kgs 14:8
    71%

    8I tore the kingdom away from the house of David and gave it to you. But you have not been like My servant David, who kept My commandments and followed Me with all his heart, doing only what was right in My eyes.

  • 2 Sam 3:10
    71%

    10I will transfer the kingdom from the house of Saul and establish David's throne over Israel and Judah, from Dan to Beersheba.

  • 1 Kgs 15:4
    71%

    4Nevertheless, for the sake of David, the LORD his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem by raising up a son to succeed him and by establishing Jerusalem.

  • 2 Chr 33:7
    71%

    7Manasseh took a carved idol that he had made and placed it in the temple of God, of which God had said to David and to his son Solomon, 'In this temple and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my Name forever.'

  • 1 Chr 17:7
    70%

    7Now then, tell my servant David: 'This is what the LORD of Hosts says: I took you from the pasture, from following the sheep, to be ruler over my people Israel.

  • Zech 2:12
    70%

    12For this is what the LORD of Hosts says: 'Afterglory—He has sent me against the nations that have plundered, hit His affect on marked prey which defines Exter.

  • 1 Kgs 9:5
    70%

    5then I will establish your royal throne over Israel forever, as I promised your father David, saying, 'You will never fail to have a successor on the throne of Israel.'

  • 2 Kgs 21:7
    70%

    7He placed the carved Asherah image he had made in the house about which the LORD had said to David and to Solomon his son: 'In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put My name forever.

  • 1 Kgs 12:26
    70%

    26Jeroboam said to himself, "The kingdom will now likely return to the house of David.

  • 2 Chr 7:18
    70%

    18Then I will establish your royal throne, as I made a covenant with David your father, saying, 'You will never fail to have a man to rule over Israel.'

  • 2 Sam 7:8
    70%

    8Now therefore, this is what you shall say to my servant David: Thus says the LORD of hosts: I took you from the pasture, from following the sheep, to be ruler over my people Israel.

  • Ezek 37:24-25
    2 verses
    70%

    24My servant David will be king over them, and there will be one shepherd for all of them. They will follow My laws and carefully obey My decrees.

    25They will live in the land I gave to My servant Jacob, the land where your ancestors lived. They and their children and their descendants will dwell there forever, and My servant David will be their prince forever.

  • Ps 135:4
    70%

    4For the LORD has chosen Jacob for Himself, Israel as His treasured possession.

  • Isa 37:35
    70%

    35I will defend this city and save it for My own sake and for the sake of My servant David.

  • Ps 78:70
    70%

    70He chose David His servant and took him from the sheepfolds.

  • 1 Kgs 12:16
    69%

    16When all Israel saw that the king refused to listen to them, they answered the king: "What share do we have in David, what part in Jesse's son? To your tents, Israel! Look after your own house, David!" So the Israelites went home.

  • Deut 12:5
    69%

    5Instead, seek the place that the Lord your God will choose from among all your tribes to put His name and make His presence dwell, and go there.

  • 1 Chr 15:2
    69%

    2Then David said, "The ark of God must not be carried by anyone but the Levites, for the LORD has chosen them to carry the ark of the LORD and to minister before Him forever."

  • 2 Chr 11:16
    69%

    16Those from all the tribes of Israel who had set their hearts on seeking the LORD, the God of Israel, followed them to Jerusalem to sacrifice to the LORD, the God of their fathers.

  • Judg 21:3
    69%

    3They said, 'Why, LORD, God of Israel, has this happened in Israel, that one tribe is missing today?'

  • 2 Kgs 19:34
    69%

    34I will defend this city and save it for My sake and for the sake of My servant David.

  • 2 Chr 13:5
    69%

    5Don’t you know that the LORD, the God of Israel, gave the kingship over Israel forever to David and his descendants by a covenant of salt?

  • 2 Sam 7:10
    69%

    10And I will appoint a place for my people Israel and plant them, so that they may dwell in their own place and be disturbed no more. Evil people will not continue to oppress them as they did at the beginning,

  • 1 Chr 23:25
    69%

    25For David said, 'The Lord, the God of Israel, has given rest to His people, and He dwells in Jerusalem forever.'

  • Ezek 37:22
    68%

    22I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel, and one king will rule over them all. They will no longer be two nations or divided into two kingdoms.

  • 2 Sam 5:12
    68%

    12Then David knew that the LORD had established him as king over Israel and had exalted his kingdom for the sake of his people Israel.

  • Deut 10:15
    68%

    15Yet the LORD set His affection on your ancestors and loved them, and He chose their descendants after them, you above all peoples, as it is this day.