1 Kings 11:33-35

International Standard Version

³³ I’m doing this^[a] because they have abandoned me and worshipped that Sidonian goddess Astarte, the Moabite god Chemosh, and the Ammonite god Milcom. They haven’t lived my way by doing what I consider to be right and observing my statutes and my ordinances, like his father David did.

³⁴ ‘Nevertheless, I won’t take the entire kingdom away from him, but I’ll let him reign for the rest of his life, because of my servant David, whom I chose, who obeyed my commandments and statutes, ³⁵ but I will take the kingdom away from his son’s control^[b] and give ten tribes to you.