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2 Chronicles

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Chapter 11

¹When Rehoboam came to Jerusalem, he assembled 180,000 chosen warriors from the house of Judah and Benjamin to fight against Israel, to restore the kingdom to Rehoboam. ²But the word of the LORD came to Shemaiah the man of God: ³“Speak to Rehoboam the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all Israel in Judah and Benjamin, ‘Thus says the LORD, You shall not go up or fight against your relatives the people of Israel. Let every man return 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. ⁴So they listened to the word of the LORD and returned and did not go against Jeroboam. ⁵Rehoboam lived in Jerusalem, and he built cities for defense in Judah. ⁶He built Bethlehem, Etam, Tekoa, ⁷Beth-zur, Soco, Adullam, ⁸Gath, Mareshah, Ziph, ⁹Adoraim, Lachish, Azekah, ¹⁰Zorah, Aijalon, and Hebron, fortified cities that are in Judah and in Benjamin. ¹¹He made the fortresses strong, and put commanders in them, and stores of food, oil, and wine. ¹²And in every city he put shields and spears, and made them very strong. So he held Judah and Benjamin. ¹³And the priests and the Levites who were in all Israel presented themselves to him from all their districts. ¹⁴For the Levites left their common lands and their holdings and came to Judah and Jerusalem, because Jeroboam and his sons had cast them off from serving as priests of the LORD ¹⁵and he appointed his own priests for the high places, and for the goat idols and for the calves that he had made. ¹⁶And those who had set their hearts to seek the LORD God of Israel, from all the tribes of Israel, came to Jerusalem to sacrifice to the LORD, the God of their fathers. ¹⁷They strengthened the kingdom of Judah, and for three years they made Rehoboam the son of Solomon strong, for during these three years they walked in the way of David and Solomon. ¹⁸Rehoboam took as wife Mahalath the daughter of Jerimoth the son of David and Abihail the daughter of Eliab the son of Jesse, ¹⁹and she bore him sons: Jeush, Shamariah, and Zaham. ²⁰After her he took Maacah the daughter of Absalom, who bore him Abijah, Attai, Ziza, and Shelomith. ²¹Rehoboam loved Maacah the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and concubines, (for he took eighteen wives and sixty concubines, and had twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters). ²²And Rehoboam appointed Abijah the son of Maacah as chief among his brothers, for he intended to make him king. ²³And 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 sought many wives for them.