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2 Chronicles 11 :: Bible in Basic English (BBE)

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 11:1 - And Rehoboam came to Jerusalem, and got together the men of Judah and Benjamin, a hundred and eighty thousand of his best fighting-men, to make war against Israel and get the kingdom back for Rehoboam.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 11:2 - But the word of the Lord came to Shemaiah, the man of God, saying,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 11:3 - Say to Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all Israel in Judah and Benjamin,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 11:4 - The Lord has said, You are not to go to war against your brothers: let every man go back to his house, for this thing is my purpose. So they gave ear to the words of the Lord and were turned back from fighting against Jeroboam.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 11:5 - Now Rehoboam kept in Jerusalem, building walled towns in Judah.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 11:6 - He was the builder of Beth-lehem and Etam and Tekoa

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 11:7 - And Beth-zur and Soco and Adullam

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 11:8 - And Gath and Mareshah and Ziph

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 11:9 - And Adoraim and Lachish and Azekah

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 11:10 - And Zorah and Aijalon and Hebron, walled towns in Judah and Benjamin.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 11:11 - And he made the walled towns strong, and he put captains in them and stores of food, oil, and wine.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 11:12 - And in every town he put stores of body-covers and spears, and made them very strong. And Judah and Benjamin were his.
(1Ki 14:21–24 )

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 11:13 - And the priests and Levites who were in all Israel came together to him from every part of their country.

Jeroboam Appoints False Priests

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 11:14 - For the Levites gave up their living-places and their property, and came to Judah and Jerusalem; for Jeroboam and his sons had sent them away, not letting them be priests to the Lord;

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 11:15 - And he himself made priests for the high places, and for the images of he-goats and oxen which he had made.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 11:16 - And after them, from all the tribes of Israel, all those whose hearts were fixed and true to the Lord, the God of Israel, came to Jerusalem to make offerings to the Lord, the God of their fathers.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 11:17 - So they went on increasing the power of the kingdom of Judah, and made Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, strong for three years; and for three years they went in the ways of David and Solomon.

Rehoboam's Family

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 11:18 - And Rehoboam took as his wife Mahalath, the daughter of Jerimoth, the son of David and of Abihail, the daughter of Eliab, the son of Jesse;

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 11:19 - And she had sons by him, Jeush, Shemariah, and Zaham.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 11:20 - And after her he took Maacah, the daughter of Absalom; and she had Abijah and Attai and Ziza and Shelomith by him.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 11:21 - Maacah, the daughter of Absalom, was dearer to Rehoboam than all his wives and his servant-wives: (for he had eighteen wives and sixty servant-wives, and was the father of twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters.)

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 11:22 - Rehoboam made Abijah, the son of Maacah, chief and ruler among his brothers, for it was his purpose to make him king.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 11:23 - And in his wisdom he had his sons stationed in every walled town through all the lands of Judah and Benjamin; and he gave them a great store of food, and took wives for them.
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The Bible in Basic English was translated by Professor Samuel Henry Hooke (1874-1968)
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