Passage

1 Kings 11

• Glossary Term

  Adversary

  1 Kings 11:14, 23's 'satan' (adversary) raised against Solomon is a human political opponent, not yet the fully developed figure of Satan found later in Scripture -- keep the lower-case, generic sense clear.

  1KI.11.14

• Glossary Term

  Anoint

  Established term (1 Kings 1:39, Solomon's anointing).

  1KI.11.14

• Glossary Term

  Apostasy

  Standard term for turning away from exclusive worship of the LORD.

  1KI.11.1-13

• Doctrine

  Divided Kingdom

  The schism under Rehoboam and Jeroboam is presented as God's own sovereign judgment on Solomon's idolatry (fulfilling Ahijah's prophecy), not merely a political or tribal dispute.

  1KI.11.29-39

• Glossary Term

  Divided Kingdom

  Descriptive phrase for the schism after Solomon's death (1 Kings 12); low lexical risk.

  1KI.11.29-39

• Glossary Term

  Foreign Wives

  Descriptive phrase for 1 Kings 11:1-8's account of Solomon's marriages leading to idolatry.

  1KI.11.1-13

• Doctrine

  God's Sovereignty over Kings and Nations

  Every king's rise and fall in this narrative, including foreign kings (e.g.

  1KI.11.11-13

• Glossary Term

  Idol

  Directly relevant to living syncretism risk in many Spanish-speaking contexts (veneration practices blending Catholic imagery with indigenous or Afro-diasporic traditions); the term itself is standard, but application requires care.

  1KI.11.1-13

• Doctrine

  Idolatry

  CRITICAL: Solomon's fall into idolatry through his foreign wives (1 Kings 11) is presented as the direct cause of the kingdom's division -- a gradual compromise, not a single dramatic apostasy.

  1KI.11.1-13

• Glossary Term

  Idolatry

  Solomon's idolatry (1 Kings 11) began through his foreign wives' influence, not sudden abandonment of faith -- teach it as gradual compromise, not a single dramatic act.

  1KI.11.1-13

• Glossary Term

  King

  Standard term.

  1KI.11.14

• Glossary Term

  Prophecy

  Standard term; Ahijah's prophecy against Jeroboam (1 Kings 11:29-39; 14:1-16) is the key example of prophecy given and later fulfilled.

  1KI.11.29-39

• Doctrine

  Prophetic Word and Fulfillment

  The narrative repeatedly demonstrates that God's prophetic word is reliably fulfilled (Ahijah's prophecy against Jeroboam, the man of God's prophecy against the altar at Bethel); this reliability is the theological point, not incidental detail.

  1KI.11.29-39

• Doctrine

  Theocratic Kingship

  Israel's king rules under God's law and is accountable to it, not an autonomous sovereign with divine-right absolutism; this distinction must be actively taught, not assumed to be obvious from the word 'rey.'

  1KI.11.14

• Glossary Term

  Throne

  Standard term, low ambiguity.

  1KI.11.14

• Glossary Term

  Word Of The Lord

  Standard phrase, low ambiguity.

  1KI.11.29-39