1 Kings 11:32-34

International Standard Version

³² I’ll leave him one tribe for the sake of my servant David and one tribe^[a] for the sake of Jerusalem, the city that I chose from all of the tribes of Israel. ³³ I’m doing this^[b] 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,