1 Kings 11:30
New International Version
and Ahijah took hold of the new cloak he was wearing and tore it into twelve pieces.

New Living Translation
and Ahijah took hold of the new cloak he was wearing and tore it into twelve pieces.

English Standard Version
Then Ahijah laid hold of the new garment that was on him, and tore it into twelve pieces.

Berean Standard Bible
And Ahijah took hold of the new cloak he was wearing, tore it into twelve pieces,

King James Bible
And Ahijah caught the new garment that was on him, and rent it in twelve pieces:

New King James Version
Then Ahijah took hold of the new garment that was on him, and tore it into twelve pieces.

New American Standard Bible
Then Ahijah took hold of the new cloak which was on him and tore it into twelve pieces.

NASB 1995
Then Ahijah took hold of the new cloak which was on him and tore it into twelve pieces.

NASB 1977
Then Ahijah took hold of the new cloak which was on him, and tore it into twelve pieces.

Legacy Standard Bible
Then Ahijah took hold of the new cloak which was on him and tore it into twelve pieces.

Amplified Bible
Then Ahijah took hold of the new cloak which he was wearing and tore it into twelve pieces.

Christian Standard Bible
Then Ahijah took hold of the new cloak he had on, tore it into twelve pieces,

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Then Ahijah took hold of the new cloak he had on, tore it into 12 pieces,

American Standard Version
And Ahijah laid hold of the new garment that was on him, and rent it in twelve pieces.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And Akhiah grasped on the new garment which was on him and he tore it into twelve pieces.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And Achia laid hold of his new garment that was upon him, and tore it into twelve pieces:

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Ahias taking his new garment, wherewith he was clad, divided it into twelve parts:

English Revised Version
And Ahijah laid hold of the new garment that was on him, and rent it in twelve pieces.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Ahijah took his new garment and tore it into 12 pieces.

Good News Translation
Ahijah took off the new robe he was wearing, tore it into twelve pieces,

International Standard Version
Ahijah grabbed the new cloak that he was wearing and tore it into twelve pieces!

JPS Tanakh 1917
And Ahijah laid hold of the new garment that was on him, and rent it in twelve pieces.

Literal Standard Version
and Ahijah lays hold on the new garment that [is] on him, and tears it [into] twelve pieces,

Majority Standard Bible
And Ahijah took hold of the new cloak he was wearing, tore it into twelve pieces,

New American Bible
Ahijah took off his new cloak, tore it into twelve pieces,

NET Bible
and he grabbed the robe and tore it into twelve pieces.

New Revised Standard Version
when Ahijah laid hold of the new garment he was wearing and tore it into twelve pieces.

New Heart English Bible
And Ahijah laid hold of the new garment that was on him, and tore it in twelve pieces.

Webster's Bible Translation
And Ahijah caught the new garment that was on him, and rent it in twelve pieces:

World English Bible
Ahijah took the new garment that was on him, and tore it in twelve pieces.

Young's Literal Translation
and Ahijah layeth hold on the new garment that is on him, and rendeth it -- twelve pieces,

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Context
Jeroboam's Rebellion
29During that time, the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite met Jeroboam on the road as he was going out of Jerusalem. Now Ahijah had wrapped himself in a new cloak, and the two of them were alone in the open field. 30And Ahijah took hold of the new cloak he was wearing, tore it into twelve pieces, 31and said to Jeroboam, “Take ten pieces for yourself, for this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Behold, I will tear the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon, and I will give you ten tribes.…

Cross References
1 Samuel 15:27
As Samuel turned to go, Saul grabbed the hem of his robe, and it tore.

1 Samuel 15:28
So Samuel said to him, "The LORD has torn the kingdom of Israel from you today and has given it to your neighbor who is better than you.

2 Samuel 19:43
"We have ten shares in the king," answered the men of Israel, "so we have more claim to David than you. Why then do you despise us? Were we not the first to speak of restoring our king?" But the men of Judah pressed even harder than the men of Israel.


Treasury of Scripture

And Ahijah caught the new garment that was on him, and rent it in twelve pieces:

rent it

1 Samuel 15:27,28
And as Samuel turned about to go away, he laid hold upon the skirt of his mantle, and it rent…

1 Samuel 24:4,5
And the men of David said unto him, Behold the day of which the LORD said unto thee, Behold, I will deliver thine enemy into thine hand, that thou mayest do to him as it shall seem good unto thee. Then David arose, and cut off the skirt of Saul's robe privily…

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1 Kings 11
1. Solomon's wives and concubines
4. In his old age they draw him to idolatry
9. God threatens him,
14. Solomon's adversaries were Hadad, who was entertained in Egypt
23. Rezon, who reigned in Damascus
26. And Jeroboam, to whom Ahijah prophesied
41. Solomon's acts, reign, and death. Rehoboam succeeds him














(30) Rent it in twelve pieces.--The use of symbolical acts is frequent in subsequent prophecy (especially see Jeremiah 13:1; Jeremiah 19:1; Jeremiah 27:2; Ezekiel 4, 5, Ezekiel 12:1-7; Ezekiel 24:3; Ezekiel 24:15), often alternating with symbolical visions and symbolical parables or allegories. The object is, of course, to arrest attention, and call out the inquiry (Ezekiel 24:19): "Wilt thou not tell us what these things are to us?" Ahijah's rending of his own new garment is used, like Saul's rending of Samuel's mantle (1Samuel 15:27-28), to symbolise the rending away of the kingdom. (See 1Kings 11:11-13.) . . . Verse 30. - And Ahijah caught [This English word almost implies that it was Jeroboam's garment (cf. Genesis 39:12); but the original simply means "laid hold of."] the new garment that was on him, and rent [same word as in vers. 11, 12, 13] it in twelve pieces. [The first instance of an "acted parable" (Rawlinson).]

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
And Ahijah
אֲחִיָּ֔ה (’ă·ḥî·yāh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 281: Ahijah -- 'brother of Yah', an Israelite name

took hold
וַיִּתְפֹּ֣שׂ (way·yiṯ·pōś)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 8610: To manipulate, seize, chiefly to capture, wield, to overlay, to use unwarrantably

of the new
הַחֲדָשָׁ֖ה (ha·ḥă·ḏā·šāh)
Article | Adjective - feminine singular
Strong's 2319: New

cloak
בַּשַּׂלְמָ֥ה (baś·śal·māh)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 8008: A wrapper, mantle

he was wearing,
עָלָ֑יו (‘ā·lāw)
Preposition | third person masculine singular
Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against

tore it
וַיִּ֨קְרָעֶ֔הָ (way·yiq·rā·‘e·hā)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular | third person feminine singular
Strong's 7167: To rend

into twelve
שְׁנֵ֥ים (šə·nêm)
Number - md
Strong's 8147: Two (a cardinal number)

pieces,
קְרָעִֽים׃ (qə·rā·‘îm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 7168: Torn piece (of garment), a rag


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