¹ Now Solomon was king over all Israel.

⁵ Ruling over Judah in Hebron for seven years and six months, and in Jerusalem, over all Israel and Judah, for thirty-three years.

¹³ Still I will not take all the kingdom from him; but I will give one tribe to your son, because of my servant David, and because of Jerusalem, the town of my selection.

³⁵ But I will take the kingdom from his son, and give it to you.

³⁶ And one tribe I will give to his son, so that David my servant may have a light for ever burning before me in Jerusalem, the town which I have made mine to put my name there.

¹⁹ So Israel was turned away from the family of David to this day.

²⁰ Now when all Israel had news that Jeroboam had come back, they sent for him to come before the meeting of the people, and made him king over Israel: not one of them was joined to the family of David but only the tribe of Judah.

³⁸ All these men of war, expert in ordering the fight, came to Hebron with the full purpose of making David king over all Israel; and all the rest of Israel were united in their desire to make David king.

³⁰ Solomon was king over Israel in Jerusalem for forty years.

¹² I, the Preacher, was king over Israel in Jerusalem.