## Rashi on I Kings Chapter 12

###### Rashi on I Kings 12:10:1
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**קָטָנִּי עָבָה.** אֶצְבַּע קְטַנָּה שֶׁלִּי.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**My little finger is thicker.** My little finger.¹

footnotes:
¹ the beginning of his reign, Rechovom was 41 years old [See below 14:21], but Shlomo was only 12 years old when he became king [See above 3:7 and Rashi there].—Ralbag


###### Rashi on I Kings 12:11:1
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**עַקְרַבִּים.** אשגלנטי"ר בְּלַעַ"ז (עֵץ וֶרֶד–הַבָּר שֶׁיֵּשׁ לוֹ קוֹצִים), שֶׁעוֹקְצִין כְּעַקְרָב.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**Thorns.** *Aiguillon*, in O.F., That sting like scorpions.


###### Rashi on I Kings 12:16:1
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**רְאֵה בֵיתְךָ.** בֵּית הַמִּקְדָּשׁ שֶׁבָּנִיתָ, לְךָ לְבַדְּךָ יִהְיֶה.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**Look after your house.** The Beis Hamikdosh that you built, will be for you alone.²

footnotes:
² Alternatively, “see who is left with you,” and rule over them, for you will not reign over Yisroel as a whole.—Radak


###### Rashi on I Kings 12:18:1
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**אֲדוֹרָם.** הוּא אֲדוֹנִירָם.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**Adoram.** He was Adoniram.³

footnotes:
³ Who is mentioned in 4:6 and 5:28 above. See II Shmuel 20:24. Rechovom sent Adoram to speak gently to the people and to calm their anger.


###### Rashi on I Kings 12:21:1
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**וְאֶת שֵׁבֶט בִּנְיָמִן.** הָעוֹמְדִים עַל הַגְּבוּל, שֶׁיְּהוּדָה וּבִנְיָמִין הָיָה גְּבוּלָם סָמוּךְ זֶה לָזֶה.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**And the tribe of Binyomin.** Who were situated on the border, because the boundaries of Yehudah and Binyomin were adjacent.


###### Rashi on I Kings 12:27:1
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**אִם יַעֲלֶה הָעָם הַזֶּה וְגוֹ'.** אֵין יְשִׁיבָה בָּעֲזָרָה אֶלָּא לְמַלְכֵי בֵּית דָּוִד בִּלְבַד, וְיִהְיֶה הוּא יוֹשֵׁב וַאֲנִי עוֹמֵד, וּבְמוֹצָאֵי שְׁבִיעִית בִּזְמַן הַקְהֵל, יִקְרָא אֶת פָּרָשַׁת הַמֶּלֶךְ, שֶׁהוּא רֹאשׁ בִּמְדִינָתוֹ, וַאֲנִי כִּשְׁאָר הָעָם, נִמְצֵאתִי בָּזוּי.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**If this people will go up, etc.** Sitting in the Temple court is not permitted only for kings of the house of Dovid, therefore, he will be sitting and I will be standing. Moreover, [during Succos] following the Sabbatical Year, at the time of the Assembly, he [is the one who] will read the section [in Devarim] relating to the king,⁴ for he is the king of his province, whereas I will be [standing] like the rest of the people, and I will, therefore, be degraded.⁵

footnotes:
⁴ See Mishnayos Sotah 7:8.
⁵ Maseches Sanhedrin 101b.


###### Rashi on I Kings 12:30:1
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**עַד דָּן.** בְּסוֹף גְּבוּל הָאָרֶץ.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**Even as far as Dan.** At the end of the boundary of the land.⁶

footnotes:
⁶ They were so attached to idol worship that they made the long pilgrimage from one end of the land all the way to the altar in Dan in the northernmost part of Yisroel.


###### Rashi on I Kings 12:33:1
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**בַּחֹדֶשׁ הַשְּׁמִינִי.** דָּרַשׁ לָהֶם הוּא חֹדֶשׁ הָאָסִיף, וּבוֹ רָאוּי הֶחָג לִהְיוֹת.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**Of the eighth month.** He expounded to them that this was the month of the harvest, and was, therefore, the proper time for the festival to be.


###### Rashi on I Kings 12:33:2
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**בָּדָא מִלִּבּוֹ.** לְשׁוֹן כָּזָב, קונטרובי"ר בְּלַעַ"ז:

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**He thought up out of his own heart.** An expression of falsehood, *controver*, in O.F.