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1 Kings 14 :: Brenton's English Septuagint (BES)

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:21 - [fn]And Roboam son of Solomon ruled over Juda. Roboam [fn]was forty and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in the city Jerusalem, which the Lord chose to put his name there out of all the tribes of Israel: and his mother's name was Naama the Ammonitess.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:22 - And Roboam did evil in the sight of the Lord; and he provoked him in all the things which their fathers did in their sins which they sinned.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:23 - And they built for themselves high places, and pillars, and planted groves on every high hill, and under every shady tree.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:24 - And there was a conspiracy in the land, and they did [fn]according to all the abominations of the nations which the Lord removed [fn]from before the children of Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:25 - And it came to pass in the fifth year [fn]of the reign of Roboam, Susakim king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem;
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:26 - and took all the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the king's house, and the golden spears which David took out of the hand of the sons of Adrazaar king of Suba, and brought them into Jerusalem, even all that he took, and the [fn]golden shields which Solomon had made, [[fn]and carried them away into Egypt.]
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:27 - And king Roboam made brazen shields instead of them; and the chiefs of the [fn]body guard, who kept the gate of the house of the king, were placed in charge over them.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:28 - And it came to pass when the king went into the house of the Lord, that the body guard took them up, and fixed them in the [fn]chamber of the body guard.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:29 - And the rest of the [fn]history of Roboam, and all that he did, behold, are they not written in the book of the chronicles [fn]of the kings of Juda?
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:30 - And there was war between Roboam and Jeroboam continually.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:31 - And Roboam slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David: and Abiu his son reigned in his stead.
BES Footnotes
The first 20 verses of this chapter are supplied by the Alex. See App.
Gr. a son of 41 years in his reigning.
Gr. of.
Gr. from the face of.
Gr. of Roboam reigning.
Gr. arms.
the remainder of this verse (here shown in italics) is not in Heb. or Alex.
Gr. runners by the side of.
The Heb. חא is retained in the Gr.
Gr. words.
Gr. to or for.
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Translation of the Greek Septuagint into English by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton, originally published in 1851 and is now in the Public Domain

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