1 Kings 11:12

Authorized King James Version (1611)

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.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אַךְ־בְּיָמֶ֙יךָ֙ לֹ֣א אֶעֱשֶׂ֔נָּה לְמַ֖עַן דָּוִ֣ד אָבִ֑יךָ מִיַּ֥ד בִּנְךָ֖ אֶקְרָעֶֽנָּה׃

Transliteration

Only-in-your-yāmeykā not ʾeʿĕsennāh for-maʿan Dāwid your-ʾāḇīkā; from-yad your-binkā ʾeqrāʿennāh.

Grammar Details

• *yāmeykā*: noun, masculine, plural + 2nd masculine singular suffix - your days
• *ʾeʿĕsennāh*: verb, qal imperfect, 1st common singular + 3rd feminine singular suffix - I will do it
• *maʿan*: preposition - for the sake of
• *Dāwid*: proper noun, masculine - David
• *ʾāḇīkā*: noun, masculine, singular + 2nd masculine singular suffix - your father
• *yad*: noun, feminine, singular, construct - hand of
• *binkā*: noun, masculine, singular + 2nd masculine singular suffix - your son
• *ʾeqrāʿennāh*: verb, qal imperfect, 1st common singular + 3rd feminine singular suffix - I will tear it

Word Meanings

• *ʾeʿĕsennāh*: I will do it/I will carry it out
• *maʿan*: for the sake of/because of/on account of
• *yad*: hand/power/authority

Referenced Verses

• Gen 12:2 : 2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:
• Gen 19:29 : 29 And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in the which Lot dwelt.
• Exod 20:5 : 5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God [am] a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth [generation] of them that hate me;
• 1 Sam 9:4-5 : 4 And he passed through mount Ephraim, and passed through the land of Shalisha, but they found [them] not: then they passed through the land of Shalim, and [there they were] not: and he passed through the land of the Benjamites, but they found [them] not. 5 [And] when they were come to the land of Zuph, Saul said to his servant that [was] with him, Come, and let us return; lest my father leave [caring] for the asses, and take thought for us.
• 1 Kgs 21:29 : 29 Seest thou how Ahab humbleth himself before me? because he humbleth himself before me, I will not bring the evil in his days: [but] in his son's days will I bring the evil upon his house.
• 2 Kgs 20:17 : 17 Behold, the days come, that all that [is] in thine house, and that which thy fathers have laid up in store unto this day, shall be carried into Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith the LORD.
• 2 Kgs 20:19 : 19 Then said Hezekiah unto Isaiah, Good [is] the word of the LORD which thou hast spoken. And he said, [Is it] not [good], if peace and truth be in my days?
• 2 Kgs 22:19-20 : 19 Because thine heart was tender, and thou hast humbled thyself before the LORD, when thou heardest what I spake against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and hast rent thy clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard [thee], saith the LORD. 20 Behold therefore, I will gather thee unto thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered into thy grave in peace; and thine eyes shall not see all the evil which I will bring upon this place. And they brought the king word again.