CLV(i)
29 And it comes to pass, at that time, that Jeroboam has gone out from Jerusalem, and Ahijah the Shilonite, the prophet, finds him in the way, and he is covering himself with a new garment; and both of them [are] by themselves in a field,
30 and Ahijah lays hold on the new garment that [is] on him, and rends it--twelve pieces,
31 and said to Jeroboam, `Take to you ten pieces, for thus said Yahweh, Elohim of Israel, lo, I am rending the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon, and have given to you the ten tribes,
32 and the one tribe he has for My servant David's sake, and for Jerusalem's sake, the city which I have fixed on, out of all the tribes of Israel.
33 `Because they have forsaken Me, and bow themselves to Ashtoreth, elohim [goddess] of the Zidonians, to Chemosh elohim of Moab, and to Milcom elohim of the sons of Ammon, and have not walked in My ways, to do that which [is] right in Mine eyes, and My statutes and My judgments, like David his father.
34 `And I do not take the whole of the kingdom out of his hand, for prince I make him all days of his life, for the sake of David My servant whom I chose, who kept My commands and My statutes;"
35 and I have taken the kingdom out of the hand of his son, and given it to you--the ten tribes;"
36 and to his son I give one tribe, for there being a lamp to David My servant all the days before Me in Jerusalem, the city that I have chosen to Myself to put My name there.
37 `And you I take, and you have reigned over all that your soul desires, and you have been king over Israel;"
38 and it has been, if you do hear all that I command you, and have walked in My ways, and done that which is right in Mine eyes, to keep My statutes and My commands, as did David My servant, that I have been with you, and have built for you a stedfast house, as I built for David, and have given to you Israel,
39 and I humble the seed of David for this; only, not all the days..