1 Kings 11:35
Good News Translation
I will take the kingdom away from Solomon's son and will give you ten tribes,

New Revised Standard Version
but I will take the kingdom away from his son and give it to you—that is, the ten tribes.

Contemporary English Version
Then I will give you ten tribes to rule,

New American Bible
But I will take the kingdom from his son’s hand and give it to you—that is, the ten tribes.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But I will take away the kingdom out of his son's hand, and will give thee ten tribes:

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But I will take away the kingdom out of his son's hand, and will give thee ten tribes:

I will take

Exodus 20:5,6 Thou shalt not adore them, nor serve them: I am the Lord thy God, mighty, jealous, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me: . . .

will give

1 Kings 12:15-17,20 And the king condescended not to the people: for the Lord was turned away from him, to make good his word, which he had spoken in the hand of Ahias, the Silonite, to Jeroboam, the son of Nabat. . . .

2 Chronicles 10:15-17 And he condescended not to the people's requests: for it was the will of God, that his word might be fulfilled which he had spoken by the hand of Ahias the Silonite to Jeroboam the son of Nabat. . . .

Context
Jeroboam's Rebellion
34Yet I will not take away all the kingdom out of his hand, but I will make him prince all the days of his life, for David my servant's sake, whom I chose, who kept my commandments, and my precepts. 35But I will take away the kingdom out of his son's hand, and will give thee ten tribes:36And to his son I will give one tribe, that there may remain a lamp for my servant, David, before me always in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen, that my name might be there.…
Cross References
1 Kings 11:12
Nevertheless, 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.

1 Kings 11:34
Yet I will not take away all the kingdom out of his hand, but I will make him prince all the days of his life, for David my servant's sake, whom I chose, who kept my commandments, and my precepts.

1 Kings 12:16
Then the people, seeing that the king would not hearken to them, answered him, saying: What portion have we in David? or what inheritance in the son of Isai? Go home to thy dwellings, O Israel: now, David, look to thy own house. So Israel departed to their dwellings.

1 Kings 12:17
But as for all the children of Israel that dwelt in the cities of Juda, Roboam reigned over them.

1 Kings 11:34
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