Unrepentant Heart

King Solomon loved many foreign women... the Lord had said to the children of Israel, You shall not intermarry with them, nor they with you. Surely they will turn away your hearts after their gods... his wives turned his heart after other gods; and his heart was not loyal to the Lord his God, as was the heart of his father David.1

Solomon disobeyed God and took wives from other nations, as well as the daughter of Pharaoh: women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites. Solomon had 700 wives and 300 concubines. You could say he loved his wives, a different one could be had every night for two years and seven months. But as God told him they would eventually lead his heart astray. God sent word to Solomon on two occasions, but Solomon did not repent, he did evil in the sight of the Lord, and did not fully follow the Lord, as did his father David. 

Because Solomon had a unrepentant heart and because he built temples for the gods of his wives, leading His people astray, God became very angry with him. Therefore the Lord said to Solomon, “Because you have done this, and have not kept My covenant and My statutes, which I have commanded you, I will surely tear the kingdom away from you and give it to your servant. Nevertheless I will not do it in your days, for the sake of your father David; I will tear it out of the hand of your son.2 God split the kingdom, he left one with the son of Solomon, Rehoboam of the tribe of Judah, for the sake of David and for Jerusalem, the city chosen out of all the tribes of Israel. 

Only the tribes of Judah and Benjamin remained with Rehoboam. The other ten tribes were given to Jeroboam, of the tribe of Ephraim. God said to Jeroboam, So I will take you, and you shall reign over all your heart desires, and you shall be king over Israel. Then it shall be, if you heed all that I command you, walk in My ways, and do what is right in My sight, to keep My statutes and My commandments, as My servant David did, then I will be with you and build for you an enduring house, as I built for David, and will give Israel to you. And I will afflict the descendants of David because of this, but not forever.3 

Solomon did evil in the sight of God, but God did not remove him from being king. God would split the kingdom in two because of his sinful unrepentant heart. He would give the northern kingdom to Jeroboam, whom would walk with God, for a while. His heart too would follow the things of this world and he too would have an unrepentant heart, when warned by God. So eventually God would give Israel up, scattering them abroad, because of the sins of Jeroboam, who sinned and who made Israel sin.4

The remnant will return, the remnant of Jacob, to the Mighty God.5

Glorious