New English [1970], THE NEW ENGLISH BIBLE (OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS; CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE) [word count] [B16000].
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1 noteWhen Rehoboam reached Jerusalem, he assembled the tribes of
Judah and Benjamin, a hundred and eighty thousand chosen warriors,
to fight against Israel and recover his kingdom.
2 But the word of the
Lord came to Shemaiah the man of God:
3 ‘Say to Rehoboam son of
Solomon, king of Judah, and to all the Israelites in Judah and Benjamin,
“This is the word of the Lord:
4 You shall not go up to make war on your
kinsmen. Return to your homes, for this is my will.”’ So they listened to
the word of the Lord and abandoned their campaign against Jeroboam.
5 Rehoboam resided in Jerusalem and built up the defences of certain
cities in Judah.
6 The cities in Judah and Benjamin which he fortified
were Bethlehem,
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8 Etam, Tekoa, Beth-zur, Soco, Adullam, Gath,
Mareshah,
9
10 Ziph, Adoraim, Lachish, Azekah, Zorah, Aijalon, and
Hebron.
11 He strengthened the fortifications of these fortified cities, and
put governors in them, as well as supplies of food, oil, and wine.
12 Also he stored shields and spears in every one of the cities, and
strengthened their fortifications. Thus he retained possession of Judah
and Benjamin.
13 Now the priests and the Levites throughout the whole of Israel
resorted to Rehoboam from all their territories;
14 for the Levites had left
all their common land and their own patrimony and had gone to Judah
and Jerusalem, because Jeroboam and his successors rejected their
services as priests of the Lord,
15 and he appointed his own priests for the
hill-shrines, for the demons, note and for the calves which he had made.
16 Those, from all the tribes of Israel, who were resolved to seek the Lord
the God of Israel followed the Levites to Jerusalem to sacrifice to the
Lord the God of their fathers.
17 So they strengthened the kingdom of
Judah and for three years made Rehoboam son of Solomon secure,
because he note followed the example of David and Solomon during that
time.
18 Rehoboam married Mahalath, whose father was Jerimoth son of
David and whose mother was Abihail daughter of Eliab son of Jesse.
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20 His sons by her were: Jeush, Shemariah and Zaham. Next he married
Maacah granddaughter note of Absalom, who bore him Abijah, Attai, Ziza
and Shelomith.
21 Of all his wives and concubines, Rehoboam loved
Maacah most; he had in all eighteen wives and sixty concubines and
became the father of twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters.
22 He
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appointed Abijah son of Maacah chief among his brothers, making him
crown prince and planning note to make him his successor on the throne.
23 He
showed discretion in detailing his sons to take charge of all the fortified
cities throughout the whole territory of Judah and Benjamin; he also
made generous provision for them and procured them note wives.
New English [1970], THE NEW ENGLISH BIBLE (OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS; CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE) [word count] [B16000].
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