Daily Reading for Thursday, February 10th, 2022

Reading 1, First Kings 11:4-13

⁴ When Solomon grew old his wives swayed his heart to other gods; and his heart was not wholly with Yahweh his God as his father David's had been.

⁵ Solomon became a follower of Astarte, the goddess of the Sidonians, and of Milcom, the Ammonite abomination.

⁶ He did what was displeasing to Yahweh, and was not a wholehearted follower of Yahweh, as his father David had been.

⁷ Then it was that Solomon built a high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, on the mountain to the east of Jerusalem, and to Milcom, the abomination of the Ammonites.

⁸ He did the same for all his foreign wives, who offered incense and sacrifice to their gods.

⁹ Yahweh was angry with Solomon because his heart had turned away from Yahweh, God of Israel, who had twice appeared to him

¹⁰ and had forbidden him to follow other gods; but he did not carry out Yahweh's order.

¹¹ Yahweh therefore said to Solomon, 'Since you have behaved like this and have not kept my covenant or the laws which I laid down for you, I shall tear the kingdom away from you and give it to one of your servants.

¹² For your father David's sake, however, I shall not do this during your lifetime, but shall tear it out of your son's hands.

¹³ Even so, I shall not tear the whole kingdom from him. For the sake of my servant David, and for the sake of Jerusalem which I have chosen, I shall leave your son one tribe.'

Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 106:3-4, 35-36, 37, 40

³ How blessed are those who keep to what is just, whose conduct is always upright!

⁴ Remember me, Yahweh, in your love for your people. Come near to me with your saving power,

³⁵ but intermarried with them, and adopted their ways.

³⁶ They worshipped those nations' false gods, till they found themselves entrapped,

³⁷ and sacrificed their own sons and their daughters to demons.

⁴⁰ Yahweh's anger blazed out at his people, his own heritage filled him with disgust.

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