1 Kings 11:39
I will afflict the offspring of David for this, but not forever.’”
World English Bible British with Deuterocanon
In The King James Version
And I will for this afflict the seed of David, but not for ever.
In Context
Cross References
1 Kings 11:36I will give one tribe to his son, that David my servant may have a lamp always before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen for myself to put my name there.
1 Kings 14:8and tore the kingdom away from David’s house, and gave it to you; and yet you have not been as my servant David, who kept my commandments, and who followed me with all his heart, to do that only which was right in my eyes,
Psalms 89:30If his children forsake my law, and don’t walk in my ordinances;
Psalms 89:38But you have rejected and spurned. You have been angry with your anointed.
Isaiah 7:14Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin will conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
Isaiah 11:1A shoot will come out of the stock of Jesse, and a branch out of his roots will bear fruit.
Matthew Henry on 1 Kings 11:27-41
Jeroboam's Promotion Foretold. ( b. c. 977.) 26 And Jeroboam the son of Nebat, an Ephrathite of Zereda, Solomon's servant, whose mother's name was Zeruah, a widow woman, even he lifted up his hand against the king. 27 And this was the cause that he lifted up his hand against the king: Solomon built Millo, and repaired the breaches of the city of David his father. 28 And the man Jeroboam was a mighty man of valour: and Solomon seeing the young man that he was industrious, he made him ruler over all the charge of… Read the whole commentary →