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1 Kings 11

1 Kings 11:39 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And I will for this afflict
`anah (Hebrew #6031)
to depress literally or figuratively, transitive or intransitive (in various applications, as follows)
KJV usage: abase self, afflict(-ion, self), answer (by mistake for 6030{/SI}}}6030{/SI}}/SI}}6030}6030{/SI}{/SI}), chasten self, deal hardly with, defile, exercise, force, gentleness, humble (self), hurt, ravish, sing (by mistake for 6030{/SI}}}6030{/SI}}/SI}}6030}6030{/SI}{/SI}), speak (by mistake for 6030{/SI}}}6030{/SI}}/SI}}6030}6030{/SI}{/SI}), submit self, weaken, X in any wise.
Pronounce: aw-naw'
Origin: a primitive root (possibly rather ident. with 6030{/SI}}}6030{/SI}}/SI}}6030}6030{/SI}{/SI} through the idea of looking down or browbeating)
the seed
zera` (Hebrew #2233)
seed; figuratively, fruit, plant, sowing-time, posterity
KJV usage: X carnally, child, fruitful, seed(-time), sowing- time.
Pronounce: zeh'-rah
Origin: from 2232
of David
David (Hebrew #1732)
Daviyd {daw-veed'}; from the same as 1730; loving; David, the youngest son of Jesse
KJV usage: David.
Pronounce: daw-veed'
Origin: rarely (fully)
, buta not for ever
yowm (Hebrew #3117)
a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an associated term), (often used adverb)
KJV usage: age, + always, + chronicals, continually(-ance), daily, ((birth-), each, to) day, (now a, two) days (agone), + elder, X end, + evening, + (for) ever(-lasting, -more), X full, life, as (so) long as (... live), (even) now, + old, + outlived, + perpetually, presently, + remaineth, X required, season, X since, space, then, (process of) time, + as at other times, + in trouble, weather, (as) when, (a, the, within a) while (that), X whole (+ age), (full) year(-ly), + younger.
Pronounce: yome
Origin: from an unused root meaning to be hot
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Psa. 89:30‑34• 30If his sons forsake my law,{HR}And walk not in my judgments,
 31If they profane my statutes,{HR}And keep not my commandments,
 32Then will I visit their transgressions with a rod{HR}And their iniquities with stripes.
 33But my mercy I will not utterly take from him,{HR}Nor belie my faithfulness;
 34Nor will I profane my covenant,{HR}Nor change what is gone out of my lips. (Psa. 89:30‑34)
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Lam. 3:31‑32• 31For Jehovah will not cast off forever:
 32but though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies. (Lam. 3:31‑32)

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Jeroboam I,
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Ministry on This Verse

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1 Kings 12:16• 16So when all Israel saw that the king hearkened not unto them, the people answered the king, saying,{HR}What portion have we in David?{HR}Neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse:{HR}To your tents, O Israel:{HR}Now see to thine own house, David.{HR}So Israel departed unto their tents. (1 Kings 12:16)
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1 Kings 14:8,25‑26• 8and rent the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave it thee: and yet thou hast 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 mine eyes;
 25And it came to pass in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem.
 26And he took away the treasures of the house of Jehovah, and the treasures of the king's house; he even took away all; and he took away all the shields of gold that Solomon had made. (1 Kings 14:8,25‑26)
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Psa. 89:38‑45,49‑51• 38But thou hast cast off and rejected;{HR}Thou hast been wroth with thine anointed one;
 39Thou hast made void the covenant of thy servant;{HR}Thou hast profaned his crown to the ground:
 40Thou hast broken down all his hedges,{HR}Thou hast brought his strongholds to ruin.
 41All that pass by the way plunder him;{HR}He is become a reproach to his neighbours.
 42Thou hast exalted the right hand of his adversaries.{HR}Thou hast made all his enemies to rejoice.
 43Yea, thou turnest back the edge of his sword,{HR}And hast not made him stand in the battle.
 44Thou hast made his brightness to cease,{HR}And his throne to the earth thou hast cast down.
 45Thou hast shortened the days of his youth,{HR}Thou hast covered him with shame. Selah.
 49Where [are] thy former mercies,{HR}Lord, thou swarest to David in thy faithfulness?
 50Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants—{HR}I bear in my bosom all the mighty peoples—
 51[With] which thine enemies have reproached, O Jehovah;{HR}[With] which they have reproached the footsteps (heels) of thine anointed one. (Psa. 89:38‑45,49‑51)
not for ever.
1 Kings 11:36• 36And unto his son will I give one tribe, that David my servant may have a light alway before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen me to put my name there. (1 Kings 11:36)
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Psa. 89:30‑34• 30If his sons forsake my law,{HR}And walk not in my judgments,
 31If they profane my statutes,{HR}And keep not my commandments,
 32Then will I visit their transgressions with a rod{HR}And their iniquities with stripes.
 33But my mercy I will not utterly take from him,{HR}Nor belie my faithfulness;
 34Nor will I profane my covenant,{HR}Nor change what is gone out of my lips. (Psa. 89:30‑34)
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Isa. 7:14• 14Therefore will Jehovah Himself give you a sign. Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son and shall call his name Immanuel. (Isa. 7:14)
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Isa. 9:7• 7To the increase of the government and to peace [there shall be] no end upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to establish it and to uphold it with judgment and with righteousness from henceforth even forever. The jealousy of Jehovah of hosts will perform this. (Isa. 9:7)
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Isa. 11:1‑10• 1And there shall come forth a shoot out of the stock of Jesse, and a branch out of his roots shall bear fruit:
 2and the spirit of Jehovah shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of Jehovah;
 3and his delight will be in the fear of Jehovah: and he will not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears:
 4but with righteousness will he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he will smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips will he slay the wicked [one].
 5And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins.
 6The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid, and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together, and a little child shall lead them.
 7And the cow and the she-bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together; and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
 8And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the adder, and the weaned child shall put forth his hand to the viper's den.
 9They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of Jehovah, as the waters cover the sea.
 10And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse standing as an ensign or banner of the peoples; it shall the nations seek: and his resting place shall be glory. (Isa. 11:1‑10)
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Jer. 23:5‑6• 5Behold the days come, saith Jehovah, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth.
 6In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely: and this is his name whereby he shall be called, JEHOVAH OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS. (Jer. 23:5‑6)
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Lam. 3:31‑32• 31For Jehovah will not cast off forever:
 32but though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies. (Lam. 3:31‑32)
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Luke 1:32‑33• 32He shall be great, and shall be called Son of [the] Highest, and the Lord God shall give him the throne of David his father.
 33And he shall reign over the house of Jacob for the ages; and of his kingdom there shall not be an end. (Luke 1:32‑33)
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Luke 2:4,11• 4and Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, to Judea, to David's city, which is called Bethlehem (because he was of the house and family of David),
 11for unto you is born this day, in the city of David, a Saviour, which is Christ [the] Lord. (Luke 2:4,11)
• His house was to be as sure as that of David, if he would hearken to the commandments of the Lord. But God makes one reservation: “And I will for this afflict the seed of David, but not forever” (1 Kings 11:39). In due time that grace upon which David’s kingdom was founded would again assert its rights, for it was not upon grace, but upon responsibility that Jeroboam’s kingdom and that of Solomon itself were established. (“The Enemies: 1 Kings 11:14-43” by H.L. Rossier)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And I will for this afflict the seed of David, but not for ever.

W. Kelly Translation

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And I will for this afflict the seed of David, but not forever.

WK Verse Note

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(Note: Words in italics have been inserted from the J. N. Darby translation where the W. Kelly translation doesn’t exist.)