1 Kings 11:37

Christian Standard Bible ®

I will appoint you, and you will reign as king over all you want, and you will be king over Israel.

Parallel Translations

Legacy Standard Bible
And I will take you, and you shall reign over whatever your soul desires, and you shall be king over Israel.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
'I will take you, and you shall reign over whatever you desire, and you shall be king over Israel.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And I will take thee, and thou shalt raigne according to all that thy soule desireth, and shalt be king ouer Israel.

New King James Version
So I will take you, and you shall reign over all your heart desires, and you shall be king over Israel.

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

Easy-to-Read Version
But I will make you king of Israel. You will rule over everything you want.

Revised Standard Version
And I will take you, and you shall reign over all that your soul desires, and you shall be king over Israel.

World English Bible
I will take you, and you shall reign according to all that your soul desires, and shall be king over Israel.

King James Version (1611)
And I will take thee, and thou shalt reigne according to all that thy soule desireth, and shalt be King ouer Israel.

King James Version
And I will take thee, and thou shalt reign according to all that thy soul desireth, and shalt be king over Israel.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Therfore wyl I take the now, to raygne ouer all that thine hert desyreth, and thou shalt be kynge ouer Israel.

THE MESSAGE
"But I have taken you in hand. Rule to your heart's content! You are to be the king of Israel. If you listen to what I tell you and live the way I show you and do what pleases me, following directions and obeying orders as my servant David did, I'll stick with you no matter what. I'll build you a kingdom as solid as the one I built for David. Israel will be yours! I am bringing pain and trouble on David's descendants, but the trials won't last forever."

American Standard Version
And I will take thee, and thou shalt reign according to all that thy soul desireth, and shalt be king over Israel.

Bible in Basic English
And you I will take, and you will be king over Israel, ruling over whatever is the desire of your soul.

Update Bible Version
And I will take you, and you shall reign according to all that your soul desires, and shall be king over Israel.

Webster's Bible Translation
And I will take thee, and thou shalt reign according to all that thy soul desireth, and shalt be king over Israel.

New English Translation
I will select you; you will rule over all you desire to have and you will be king over Israel.

Contemporary English Version
"You will be king of Israel and will rule every nation you want.

Complete Jewish Bible
I will take you, and you will rule over everything you want; you will be king over Isra'el.

Darby Translation
And I will take thee, that thou mayest reign over all that thy soul desireth, and thou shalt be king over Israel.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And I wil take thee, and thou shalt reigne, euen as thine heart desireth, and shalt be King ouer Israel.

George Lamsa Translation
And I will give it to you, and you shall reign according to all that your soul desires, and you shall be king over Israel.

Amplified Bible
'I will take you [Jeroboam], and you shall reign over whatever your soul desires; and you shall be king over Israel (the ten northern tribes).

Hebrew Names Version
I will take you, and you shall reign according to all that your soul desires, and shall be king over Yisra'el.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And I will take thee, and thou shalt reign over all that thy soul desireth, and shalt be king over Israel.

New Living Translation
And I will place you on the throne of Israel, and you will rule over all that your heart desires.

New Life Bible
And I will take you, and you will rule over whatever you want. You will be the king of Israel.

New Revised Standard
I will take you, and you shall reign over all that your soul desires; you shall be king over Israel.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And I will take thee, and thou shalt reign as thy soul desires, and thou shalt be king over Israel.

English Revised Version
And I will take thee, and thou shalt reign according to all that thy soul desireth, and shalt be king over Israel.

Berean Standard Bible
But as for you, I will take you, and you shall reign over all that your heart desires, and you will be king over Israel.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
But, thee, will I take, and thou shalt reign over all that thy soul could desire, - and thou shalt be king over Israel.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And I will take thee, and thou shalt reign over all that thy soul desireth, and thou shalt be king over Israel.

Lexham English Bible
You I will take, and you shall reign over all your soul desires, and you shall be king over Israel.

English Standard Version
And I will take you, and you shall reign over all that your soul desires, and you shall be king over Israel.

New American Standard Bible
'However I will take you, and you shall reign over all that you desire, and you shall be king over Israel.

New Century Version
But I will make you rule over everything you want. You will rule over all of Israel,

Good News Translation
Jeroboam, I will make you king of Israel, and you will rule over all the territory that you want.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Forsothe Y schal take thee, and thou schalt regne on alle thingis whiche thi soule desirith, and thou schalt be kyng on Israel.

Young's Literal Translation
`And thee I take, and thou hast reigned over all that thy soul desireth, and thou hast been king over Israel;

Contextual Overview

²⁶ Now Solomon's servant, Jeroboam son of Nebat, was an Ephraimite from Zeredah. His widowed mother's name was Zeruah. Jeroboam rebelled against Solomon, ²⁷ and this is the reason he rebelled against the king: Solomon had built the supporting terraces and repaired the opening in the wall of the city of his father David. ²⁸ Now the man Jeroboam was capable, and Solomon noticed the young man because he was getting things done. So he appointed him over the entire labor force of the house of Joseph. ²⁹ During that time, the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite met Jeroboam on the road as Jeroboam came out of Jerusalem. Now Ahijah had wrapped himself with a new cloak, and the two of them were alone in the open field. ³⁰ Then Ahijah took hold of the new cloak he had on, tore it into 12 pieces, ³¹ and said to Jeroboam, "Take 10 pieces for yourself, for this is what the Lord God of Israel says: ‘I am about to tear the kingdom out of Solomon's hand. I will give you 10 tribes, ³² but one tribe will remain his because of my servant David and because of Jerusalem, the city I chose out of all the tribes of Israel. ³³ For they have abandoned Me; they have bowed the knee to Ashtoreth, the goddess of the Sidonians, to Chemosh, the god of Moab, and to Milcom, the god of the Ammonites. They have not walked in My ways to do what is right in My eyes and to carry out My statutes and My judgments as his father David did. ³⁴ "‘However, I will not take the whole kingdom from his hand but will let him be ruler all the days of his life because of My servant David, whom I chose and who kept My commands and My statutes. ³⁵ I will take 10 tribes of the kingdom from his son's hand and give them to you.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

according: 1 Kings 11:26, Deuteronomy 14:26, 2 Samuel 3:21

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And I will take thee,.... From the low estate in which he was, to be king:

and thou shall reign according to all that thy soul desireth; he being ambitious of the kingdom, and having already formed in his mind some designs upon it:

and shall be king over Israel; the ten tribes.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 37. According to all that thy soul desireth — It appears from this that Jeroboam had affected the kingdom, and was seeking for an opportunity to seize on the government. God now tells him, by his prophet, what he shall have, and what he shall not have, in order to prevent him from attempting to seize on the whole kingdom, to the prejudice of the spiritual seed of David.