1 Kings 14
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At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam became sick.
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And Jeroboam said to his wife, "Please arise, and disguise yourself, that they may not recognize you as the wife of Jeroboam, and go to Shiloh. Indeed, Ahijah the prophet is there, who told me that a I would be king over this people.
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b "Also take with you ten loaves, some cakes, and a jar of honey, and go to him; he will tell you what will become of the child."
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And Jeroboam's wife did so; she arose c and went to Shiloh, and came to the house of Ahijah. But Ahijah could not see, for his eyes were glazed by reason of his age.
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Now the LORD had said to Ahijah, "Here is the wife of Jeroboam, coming to ask you something about her son, for he is sick. Thus and thus you shall say to her; for it will be, when she comes in, that she will pretend to be another woman."
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And so it was, when Ahijah heard the sound of her footsteps as she came through the door, he said, "Come in, wife of Jeroboam. Why do you pretend to be another person? For I have been sent to you with bad news.
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"Go, tell Jeroboam, 'Thus says the LORD God of Israel: d "Because I exalted you from among the people, and made you ruler over My people Israel,
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"and e tore the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave it to you; and yet you have not been as My servant David, f who kept My commandments and who followed Me with all his heart, to do only what was right in My eyes;
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"but you have done more evil than all who were before you, g for you have gone and made for yourself other gods and molded images to provoke Me to anger, and h have cast Me behind your back -
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"therefore behold! i I will bring disaster on the house of Jeroboam, and j will cut off from Jeroboam every male in Israel, k bond and free; I will take away the remnant of the house of Jeroboam, as one takes away refuse until it is all gone.
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"The dogs shall eat l whoever belongs to Jeroboam and dies in the city, and the birds of the air shall eat whoever dies in the field; for the LORD has spoken!" '
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"Arise therefore, go to your own house. m When your feet enter the city, the child shall die.
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"And all Israel shall mourn for him and bury him, for he is the only one of Jeroboam who shall come to the grave, because in him n there is found something good toward the LORD God of Israel in the house of Jeroboam.
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o "Moreover the LORD will raise up for Himself a king over Israel who shall cut off the house of Jeroboam; this is the day. What? Even now!
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"For the LORD will strike Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water. He will p uproot Israel from this q good land which He gave to their fathers, and will scatter them r beyond the River, s because they have made their wooden images, provoking the LORD to anger.
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"And He will give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, t who sinned and who made Israel sin."
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Then Jeroboam's wife arose and departed, and came to u Tirzah. v When she came to the threshold of the house, the child died.
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And they buried him; and all Israel mourned for him, w according to the word of the LORD which He spoke through His servant Ahijah the prophet.
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Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he x made war and how he reigned, indeed they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
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The period that Jeroboam reigned was twenty-two years. So he rested with his fathers. Then y Nadab his son reigned in his place.
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And Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. z Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he became king. He reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city a which the LORD had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put His name there. b His mother's name was Naamah, an Ammonitess.
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c Now Judah did evil in the sight of the LORD, and they d provoked Him to jealousy with their sins which they committed, more than all that their fathers had done.
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For they also built for themselves e high places, f sacred pillars, and g wooden images on every high hill and h under every green tree.
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i And there were also perverted persons in the land. They did according to all the j abominations of the nations which the LORD had cast out before the children of k Israel.
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l It happened in the fifth year of King Rehoboam that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem.
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m And he took away the treasures of the house of the LORD and the treasures of the king's house; he took away everything. He also took away all the gold shields n which Solomon had made.
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Then King Rehoboam made bronze shields in their place, and committed them to the hands of the captains of the guard, who guarded the doorway of the king's house.
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And whenever the king entered the house of the LORD, the guards carried them, then brought them back into the guardroom.
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o Now the rest of the acts of Rehoboam, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
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And there was p war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all their days.
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q So Rehoboam rested with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the City of David. r His mother's name was Naamah, an Ammonitess. Then s Abijam his son reigned in his place.
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1 Kings 11:29 - 31
Now it happened at that time, when Jeroboam went out of Jerusalem, that the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite met him on the way; and he had clothed himself with a new garment, and the two were alone in the field.
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1 Samuel 9:7
Then Saul said to his servant, "But look, if we go, what shall we bring the man? For the bread in our vessels is all gone, and there is no present to bring to the man of God. What do we have?
1 Samuel 9:8
And the servant answered Saul again and said, "Look, I have here at hand one-fourth of a shekel of silver. I will give that to the man of God, to tell us our way.
1 Kings 13:7
Then the king said to the man of God, "Come home with me and refresh yourself, and I will give you a reward.
2 Kings 4:42
Then a man came from Baal Shalisha, and brought the man of God bread of the firstfruits, twenty loaves of barley bread, and newly ripened grain in his knapsack. And he said, "Give it to the people, that they may eat.
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1 Kings 11:29
Now it happened at that time, when Jeroboam went out of Jerusalem, that the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite met him on the way; and he had clothed himself with a new garment, and the two were alone in the field.
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2 Samuel 12:7
Then Nathan said to David, "You are the man! Thus says the LORD God of Israel: 'I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you from the hand of Saul.
2 Samuel 12:8
I gave you your master's house and your master's wives into your keeping, and gave you the house of Israel and Judah. And if that had been too little, I also would have given you much more!
1 Kings 16:2
Inasmuch as I lifted you out of the dust and made you ruler over My people Israel, and you have walked in the way of Jeroboam, and have made My people Israel sin, to provoke Me to anger with their sins.
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1 Kings 11:31
And he said to Jeroboam, "Take for yourself ten pieces, for thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: 'Behold, I will tear the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon and will give ten tribes to you
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1 Kings 11:33
Because they have forsaken Me, and worshiped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Milcom the god of the people of Ammon, and have not walked in My ways to do what is right in My eyes and keep My statutes and My judgments, as did his father David.
1 Kings 11:38
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.
1 Kings 15:5
Because David did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, and had not turned aside from anything that He commanded him all the days of his life, except in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.
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1 Kings 12:28
Therefore the king asked advice, made two calves of gold, and said to the people, "It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem. Here are your gods, O Israel, which brought you up from the land of Egypt!
2 Chronicles 11:15
Then he appointed for himself priests for the high places, for the demons, and the calf idols which he had made.
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2 Chronicles 29:6
For our fathers have trespassed and done evil in the eyes of the LORD our God; they have forsaken Him, have turned their faces away from the dwelling place of the LORD, and turned their backs on Him.
Nehemiah 9:26
Nevertheless they were disobedient And rebelled against You, Cast Your law behind their backs And killed Your prophets, who testified against them To turn them to Yourself; And they worked great provocations.
Psalms 50:17
Seeing you hate instruction And cast My words behind you?
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1 Kings 15:29
And it was so, when he became king, that he killed all the house of Jeroboam. He did not leave to Jeroboam anyone that breathed, until he had destroyed him, according to the word of the LORD which He had spoken by His servant Ahijah the Shilonite.
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1 Kings 21:21
Behold, I will bring calamity on you. I will take away your posterity, and will cut off from Ahab every male in Israel, both bond and free.
2 Kings 9:8
For the whole house of Ahab shall perish; and I will cut off from Ahab all the males in Israel, both bond and free.
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Deuteronomy 32:36
For the LORD will judge His people And have compassion on His servants, When He sees that their power is gone, And there is no one remaining, bond or free.
2 Kings 14:26
For the LORD saw that the affliction of Israel was very bitter; and whether bond or free, there was no helper for Israel.
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1 Kings 16:4
"The dogs shall eat whoever belongs to Baasha and dies in the city, and the birds of the air shall eat whoever dies in the fields."
1 Kings 21:24
"The dogs shall eat whoever belongs to Ahab and dies in the city, and the birds of the air shall eat whoever dies in the field."
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1 Kings 14:17
Then Jeroboam's wife arose and departed, and came to Tirzah. When she came to the threshold of the house, the child died.
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2 Chronicles 12:12
When he humbled himself, the wrath of the LORD turned from him, so as not to destroy him completely; and things also went well in Judah.
2 Chronicles 19:3
"Nevertheless good things are found in you, in that you have removed the wooden images from the land, and have prepared your heart to seek God."
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1 Kings 15:27 - 29
Then Baasha the son of Ahijah, of the house of Issachar, conspired against him. And Baasha killed him at Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines, while Nadab and all Israel laid siege to Gibbethon.
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Deuteronomy 29:28
'And the LORD uprooted them from their land in anger, in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as it is this day.'
2 Kings 17:6
In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria took Samaria and carried Israel away to Assyria, and placed them in Halah and by the Habor, the River of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
Psalms 52:5
God shall likewise destroy you forever; He shall take you away, and pluck you out of your dwelling place, And uproot you from the land of the living. Selah
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Joshua 23:15
Therefore it shall come to pass, that as all the good things have come upon you which the LORD your God promised you, so the LORD will bring upon you all harmful things, until He has destroyed you from this good land which the LORD your God has given you.
Joshua 23:16
"When you have transgressed the covenant of the LORD your God, which He commanded you, and have gone and served other gods, and bowed down to them, then the anger of the LORD will burn against you, and you shall perish quickly from the good land which He has given you."
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2 Kings 15:29
In the days of Pekah king of Israel, TiglathPile'ser king of Assyria came and took Ijon, Abel Beth Maachah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali; and he carried them captive to Assyria.
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Exodus 34:13
But you shall destroy their altars, break their sacred pillars, and cut down their wooden images
Exodus 34:14
(for you shall worship no other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God).
Deuteronomy 12:3
And you shall destroy their altars, break their sacred pillars, and burn their wooden images with fire; you shall cut down the carved images of their gods and destroy their names from that place.
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1 Kings 12:30
Now this thing became a sin, for the people went to worship before the one as far as Dan.
1 Kings 13:34
And this thing was the sin of the house of Jeroboam, so as to exterminate and destroy it from the face of the earth.
1 Kings 15:30
Because of the sins of Jeroboam, which he had sinned and by which he had made Israel sin, because of his provocation with which he had provoked the LORD God of Israel to anger.
1 Kings 15:34
He did evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin by which he had made Israel sin.
1 Kings 16:2
Inasmuch as I lifted you out of the dust and made you ruler over My people Israel, and you have walked in the way of Jeroboam, and have made My people Israel sin, to provoke Me to anger with their sins.
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1 Kings 15:21
Now it happened, when Baasha heard it, that he ...
1 Kings 15:33
In the third year of Asa king of Judah, Baasha ...
1 Kings 16:6
So Baasha rested with his fathers and was burie...
1 Kings 16:8
In the twenty-sixth year of Asa king of Judah, ...
1 Kings 16:15
In the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah...
1 Kings 16:23
In the thirty-first year of Asa king of Judah, ...
Song of Solomon 6:4
O my love, you are as beautiful as Tirzah, Love...
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1 Kings 14:12
Arise therefore, go to your own house. When your feet enter the city, the child shall die.
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1 Kings 14:13
And all Israel shall mourn for him and bury him, for he is the only one of Jeroboam who shall come to the grave, because in him there is found something good toward the LORD God of Israel in the house of Jeroboam.
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1 Kings 14:30
And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all their days.
2 Chronicles 13:2 - 20
He reigned three years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Michaiah the daughter of Uriel of Gibeah. And there was war between Abijah and Jeroboam.
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1 Kings 15:25
Now Nadab the son of Jeroboam became king over Israel in the second year of Asa king of Judah, and he reigned over Israel two years.
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2 Chronicles 12:13
Thus King Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem and reigned. Now Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he became king; and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put His name there. His mother's name was Naamah, an Ammonitess.
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1 Kings 11:32
(but he shall have one tribe for the sake of My servant David, and for the sake of Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel).
1 Kings 11:36
And to his son I will give one tribe, that My servant David may always have a lamp before Me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen for Myself, to put My name there.
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1 Kings 14:31
So Rehoboam rested with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the City of David. His mother's name was Naamah, an Ammonitess. Then Abijam his son reigned in his place.
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2 Chronicles 12:1
Now it came to pass, when Rehoboam had established the kingdom and had strengthened himself, that he forsook the law of the LORD, and all Israel along with him.
2 Chronicles 12:14
And he did evil, because he did not prepare his heart to seek the LORD.
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Deuteronomy 32:21
They have provoked Me to jealousy by what is not God; They have moved Me to anger by their foolish idols. But I will provoke them to jealousy by those who are not a nation; I will move them to anger by a foolish nation.
Psalms 78:58
For they provoked Him to anger with their high places, And moved Him to jealousy with their carved images.
1 Corinthians 10:22
Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than He?
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Deuteronomy 12:2
You shall utterly destroy all the places where the nations which you shall dispossess served their gods, on the high mountains and on the hills and under every green tree.
Ezekiel 16:24
That you also built for yourself a shrine, and made a high place for yourself in every street.
Ezekiel 16:25
You built your high places at the head of every road, and made your beauty to be abhorred. You offered yourself to everyone who passed by, and multiplied your acts of harlotry.
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Deuteronomy 16:22
You shall not set up a sacred pillar, which the LORD your God hates.
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2 Kings 17:9
Also the children of Israel secretly did against the LORD their God things that were not right, and they built for themselves high places in all their cities, from watchtower to fortified city.
2 Kings 17:10
They set up for themselves sacred pillars and wooden images on every high hill and under every green tree.
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Isaiah 57:5
Inflaming yourselves with gods under every green tree, Slaying the children in the valleys, Under the clefts of the rocks?
Jeremiah 2:20
For of old I have broken your yoke and burst your bonds; And you said, 'I will not transgress,' When on every high hill and under every green tree You lay down, playing the harlot.
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Genesis 19:5
And they called to Lot and said to him, "Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us that we may know them carnally.
Deuteronomy 23:17
There shall be no ritual harlot of the daughters of Israel, or a perverted one of the sons of Israel.
1 Kings 15:12
And he banished the perverted persons from the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
1 Kings 22:46
And the rest of the perverted persons, who remained in the days of his father Asa, he banished from the land.
2 Kings 23:7
Then he tore down the ritual booths of the perverted persons that were in the house of the LORD, where the women wove hangings for the wooden image.
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Deuteronomy 20:18
Lest they teach you to do according to all their abominations which they have done for their gods, and you sin against the LORD your God.
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Deuteronomy 9:4
Do not think in your heart, after the LORD your God has cast them out before you, saying, 'Because of my righteousness the LORD has brought me in to possess this land'; but it is because of the wickedness of these nations that the LORD is driving them out from before you.
Deuteronomy 9:5
It is not because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart that you go in to possess their land, but because of the wickedness of these nations that the LORD your God drives them out from before you, and that He may fulfill the word which the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
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1 Kings 11:40
Solomon therefore sought to kill Jeroboam. But Jeroboam arose and fled to Egypt, to Shishak king of Egypt, and was in Egypt until the death of Solomon.
2 Chronicles 12:2
And it happened in the fifth year of King Rehoboam that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, because they had transgressed against the LORD.
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1 Kings 15:18
Then Asa took all the silver and gold that was left in the treasuries of the house of the LORD and the treasuries of the king's house, and delivered them into the hand of his servants. And King Asa sent them to BenHadad the son of Tabrimmon, the son of Hezion, king of Syria, who dwelt in Damascus, saying.
2 Chronicles 12:9 - 11
So Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, and took away the treasures of the house of the LORD and the treasures of the king's house; he took everything. He also carried away the gold shields which Solomon had made.
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1 Kings 10:17
He also made three hundred shields of hammered gold; three minas of gold went into each shield. The king put them in the House of the Forest of Lebanon.
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2 Chronicles 12:15
The acts of Rehoboam, first and last, are they not written in the book of Shemaiah the prophet, and of Iddo the seer concerning genealogies? And there were wars between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all their days.
2 Chronicles 12:16
So Rehoboam rested with his fathers, and was buried in the City of David. Then Abijah his son reigned in his place.
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1 Kings 12:21 - 24
And when Rehoboam came to Jerusalem, he assembled all the house of Judah with the tribe of Benjamin, one hundred and eighty thousand chosen men who were warriors, to fight against the house of Israel, that he might restore the kingdom to Rehoboam the son of Solomon.
1 Kings 15:6
And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days of his life.
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2 Chronicles 12:16
So Rehoboam rested with his fathers, and was buried in the City of David. Then Abijah his son reigned in his place.
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1 Kings 14:21
And Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he became king. He reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put His name there. His mother's name was Naamah, an Ammonitess.
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2 Chronicles 12:16
So Rehoboam rested with his fathers, and was buried in the City of David. Then Abijah his son reigned in his place.
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