And Ahijah took hold of the new garment that was on him, and tore it into twelve pieces.

And he said to Jeroboam, Take for yourself ten pieces, for thus says Jehovah the God of Israel: Behold, I am tearing the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon and have given ten tribes to you

So if you walk in My ways, to keep My statutes and My commandments, as your father David has walked, then I will prolong your days.

because they have forsaken Me, and bowed down to Ashtaroth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Milcom the god of the children of Ammon, and have not walked in My ways to do what is right in My eyes and to keep My statutes and My judgments, as did his father David.

But I have taken the kingdom out of his son's hand and given it to you; ten tribes.

And I will take you, and you shall reign according to all your soul's desires, and you shall be king over Israel.

because David had done what was right in the eyes of Jehovah, and had not turned aside from anything that He had commanded him all the days of his life, except in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.

And Jehovah was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the former ways of his father David; he did not seek the Baals,

Ahaz was twenty years old when he became king, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem; and he did not do what was right in the eyes of Jehovah, like his father David.

And when He had removed him, He raised up for them David as king, to whom also He bore witness and said, I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after My own heart, who will do all My will.

For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell asleep, was buried with his fathers, and saw corruption;