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aAnd when Rehoboam came to Jerusalem, he gathered the house of Judah and Benjamin, one hundred eighty thousand choice warriors, to wage war with Israel in order to return the kingdom to Rehoboam.
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But the word of Jehovah came to Shemaiah the man of God, saying,
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Speak to Rehoboam the son of Solomon, the king of Judah, and to all Israel in Judah and Benjamin, saying,
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Thus says Jehovah, You shall not go up and wage war with your brothers. Every man return to his house; for this matter is of Me. So they listened to the words of Jehovah and returned from going against Jeroboam.
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Reigning over Judah and Benjamin
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1And Rehoboam dwelt in Jerusalem and built cities for defense in Judah.
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He built Bethlehem and Etam and Tekoa
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And Beth-zur and Soco and Adullam
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And Gath and Mareshah and Ziph
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And Adoraim and Lachish and Azekah
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And Zorah and Aijalon and Hebron, which are in Judah and in Benjamin, fortified cities.
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And he strengthened the fortresses and put commanders in them, as well as stores of food and oil and wine,
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And in every city, shields and spears; and he made them exceedingly strong. And Judah and Benjamin belonged to him.
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And the
1priests and the Levites who had been throughout all Israel presented themselves to him out of all their territory;
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For the Levites abandoned their pasture lands and their property and went to Judah and Jerusalem because Jeroboam and his sons cast them out so that they could not
afunction as priests to Jehovah.
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And he appointed priests for himself for the high places and for the
1goats and the
acalves that he had made.
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And those from all the tribes of Israel who set their hearts to seek Jehovah the God of Israel came after them to Jerusalem to sacrifice to Jehovah, the God of their fathers.
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And they strengthened the kingdom of Judah and supported Rehoboam the son of Solomon for three years, for they walked in the way of David and Solomon for three years.
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And Rehoboam took to himself for
his wife Mahalath the daughter of Jerimoth the son of David
and of Abihail the daughter of Eliab the son of Jesse.
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And she bore him sons: Jeush and Shemariah and Zaham.
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And after her he took Maacah the daughter of Absalom; and she bore him Abijah and Attai and Ziza and Shelomith.
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And Rehoboam
aloved Maacah the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and his concubines. (For he had taken
1eighteen bwives and
1sixty concubines and begot twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters.)
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And Rehoboam
1appointed Abijah the son of Maacah to be chief
prince, the leader among his brothers; for
he intended to make him king.
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And he acted wisely and dispersed all his sons throughout all the lands of Judah and Benjamin, to all the fortified cities; and he gave them food in abundance and sought many wives
for them.
