37. However, as for you, I will take you, and you will rule over all that your heart desires; you will be king over Israel.
38. If you do whatever I command you and walk in obedience to me and do what is right in my eyes by obeying my decrees and commands, as David my servant did, I will be with you. I will build you a dynasty as enduring as the one I built for David and will give Israel to you.
39. I will humble David’s descendants because of this, but not for ever.” ’
40. Solomon tried to kill Jeroboam, but Jeroboam fled to Egypt, to Shishak the king, and stayed there until Solomon’s death.
41. As for the other events of Solomon’s reign – all he did and the wisdom he displayed – are they not written in the book of the annals of Solomon?
42. Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel for forty years.