2Chr 11
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And Roboam came to Jerusalem; and he assembled Juda and Benjamin, a hundred and eighty
thousand young men Gr. making war fit for war, and he waged war with Israel to recover the kingdom to Roboam.
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And the Word of the Lord came to Samaias the man of God, saying,
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Speak to Roboam the son of Solomon, and to all Juda and Benjamin, saying,
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Thus says the Lord, You shall not go up, and you shall not war against your brethren:
return every one to his home; for this thing is of me. And they hearkened to the word
of the Lord, and returned Gr. so as not to go from going against Jeroboam.
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And Roboam dwelt in Jerusalem, and he built walled cities in Judea.
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And he built Bethleem, and Ætan and Thecoe,
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and Baethsura, and Sochoth, and Odollam,
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and Geth, and Marisa, and Ziph,
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and Adorai, and Lachis, and Azeca,
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and Saraa, and Ælom, and Chebron, which belong to Juda and Benjamin, walled cities.
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And he fortified them Gr. walled with walls, and placed in them captains, and stores of provisions, oil and wine,
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shields and spears in every several city, and he fortified them Or, in great numbers very strongly, and he had on his side
Juda and Benjamin.
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And the priests and the Levites who were in all Israel were gathered to him out of
all the coasts.
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For the Levites left the tents of their possession, and went to Juda to Jerusalem,
because Jeroboam and his sons had ejected them so that they should not minister to
the Lord.
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And he made for himself priests of the high places, and for the idols, and for the
vanities, and for the calves which Jeroboam made.
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And he cast out from the tribes of Israel Gr. them those who set their heart to seek the Lord God of Israel: and they came
to Jerusalem,
to sacrifice to the Lord God of their fathers.
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And they strengthened the kingdom of Juda; and Juda strengthened Roboam the son of
Solomon for three years, for he walked three years in the ways of David and Solomon.
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And Roboam took to himself for a wife, Moolath daughter of Jerimuth the son of David,
and Abigaia daughter of Heliab the son of Jessae.
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And she bore him sons; Jeus, and Samoria, and Zaam.
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And afterwards he took to himself Maacha the daughter of Abessalom; and she bore him
Abia, and Jetthi, and Zeza, and Salemoth.
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And Roboam loved Maacha the daughter of Abessalom more than all his wives and all
his concubines: for he had eighteen wives and sixty concubines; and he engendered
twenty-eight sons, and sixty daughters.
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And he made Abia the son of Maacha chief, even a leader among his brethren, for he
intended to make him king.
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And he was Gr. increased exalted beyond all his other sons in all the coasts of Juda and Benjamin, and in
the strong cities; and he gave them provisions in great abundance: and he desired
many wives.