1 Kings 11:11-13

English Standard Version

¹¹ Therefore the Lord said to Solomon, “Since this has been your practice and you have not kept my covenant and my statutes that I have commanded you, ^(A)I will surely tear the kingdom from you and will give it to your servant. ¹² Yet for the sake of David your father I will not do it in your days, but I will tear it out of the hand of your son. ¹³ However, ^(B)I will not tear away all the kingdom, but ^(C)I will give one tribe to your son, for the sake of David my servant and for the sake of Jerusalem ^(D)that I have chosen.”