2Chronicles 11
11When Rehoboam came to Jerusalem, he assembled the house of Judah and Benjamin, 180,000 chosen warriors, to fight against Israel, to restore the kingdom to Rehoboam.H7346H935H3389H6950H1004H3063H1144H3967H8084H505H977H6213H4421H3898H3478H7725H4467H7725H73462But the word of the LORD came to Shemaiah the man of God:H1697H3068H8098H376H430H5593"Say to Rehoboam the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all Israel in Judah and Benjamin,H559H7346H1121H8010H4428H3063H3478H3063H1144H5594'Thus says the LORD, You shall not go up or fight against your relatives. Return every man to his home, for this thing is from me.'" So they listened to the word of the LORD and returned and did not go against Jeroboam.H559H3068H5927H3898H251H7725H376H1004H1697H1961H8085H1697H3068H7725H3212H33795Rehoboam lived in Jerusalem, and he built cities for defense in Judah.H7346H3427H3389H1129H5892H4692H30636He built Bethlehem, Etam, Tekoa,H1129H1035H5862H86207Beth-zur, Soco, Adullam,H1049H7755H57258Gath, Mareshah, Ziph,H1661H4762H21289Adoraim, Lachish, Azekah,H115H3923H582510Zorah, Aijalon, and Hebron, fortified cities that are in Judah and in Benjamin.H6881H357H2275H3063H1144H4694H589211He made the fortresses strong, and put commanders in them, and stores of food, oil, and wine.H2388H4694H5414H5057H214H3978H8081H319612And he put shields and spears in all the cities and made them very strong. So he held Judah and Benjamin.H5892H6793H7420H7235H3966H2388H3063H114413And the priests and the Levites who were in all Israel presented themselves to him from all places where they lived.H3548H3881H3478H3320H136614For the Levites left their common lands and their holdings and came to Judah and Jerusalem, because Jeroboam and his sons cast them out from serving as priests of the LORD,H3881H5800H4054H272H3212H3063H3389H3379H1121H2186H3547H306815and he appointed his own priests for the high places and for the goat idols and for the calves that he had made.H5975H3548H1116H8163H5695H621316And those who had set their hearts to seek the LORD God of Israel came after them from all the tribes of Israel to Jerusalem to sacrifice to the LORD, the God of their fathers.H310H7626H3478H5414H3824H1245H3068H430H3478H935H3389H2076H3068H430H117They strengthened the kingdom of Judah, and for three years they made Rehoboam the son of Solomon secure, for they walked for three years in the way of David and Solomon.H2388H4438H3063H7346H1121H8010H553H7969H8141H7969H8141H1980H1870H1732H801018Rehoboam took as wife Mahalath the daughter of Jerimoth the son of David, and of Abihail the daughter of Eliab the son of Jesse,H7346H3947H4258H1323H1121H3406H1121H1732H802H32H1323H446H1121H344819and she bore him sons, Jeush, Shemariah, and Zaham.H3205H1121H3266H8114H209320After her he took Maacah the daughter of Absalom, who bore him Abijah, Attai, Ziza, and Shelomith.H310H3947H4601H1323H53H3205H29H6262H2124H801921Rehoboam loved Maacah the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and concubines (he took eighteen wives and sixty concubines, and fathered twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters).H7346H157H4601H1323H53H802H6370H5375H8083H6240H802H8346H6370H3205H6242H8083H1121H8346H132322And Rehoboam appointed Abijah the son of Maacah as chief prince among his brothers, for he intended to make him king.H7346H5975H29H1121H4601H7218H5057H251H442723And he dealt wisely and distributed some of his sons through all the districts of Judah and Benjamin, in all the fortified cities, and he gave them abundant provisions and procured wives for them.H995H6555H1121H776H3063H1144H4694H5892H5414H4202H7230H7592H1995H802
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