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Ahijah gives Jeroboam ten cloak pieces and explains the kingdom division because of idolatry.
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1 Kings 11:31-33

Ten pieces for ten tribes

Solomon’s Divided Allegiance · 1 Kings 11

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31And he said to Jeroboam, “Take for yourself ten pieces, for this is what Yahweh, the God of Israel, says: ‘Look, I am tearing the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon, and I will give you ten tribes.’”

32But one tribe will remain his, for the sake of my servant David and for the sake of Jerusalem, the city that I have chosen from all the tribes of Israel.

33because they have forsaken me and bowed down to Ashtoreth, the god of the Sidonians, to Chemosh, the god of Moab, and to Milcom, the god of the Ammonites, and have not walked in my ways, to do what is right in my eyes and my statutes and my judgments, like David his father.

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