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

Rehoboam Reigns over Judah and Builds Cities

2Ch 11:1And 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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2Ch 11:2But the word of the Lord came to Shemaiah, the man of God, saying,

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2Ch 11:3Say to Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all Israel in Judah and Benjamin,

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2Ch 11:4The 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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2Ch 11:5Now Rehoboam kept in Jerusalem, building walled towns in Judah.

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2Ch 11:6He was the builder of Beth-lehem and Etam and Tekoa

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2Ch 11:7And Beth-zur and Soco and Adullam

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2Ch 11:8And Gath and Mareshah and Ziph

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2Ch 11:9And Adoraim and Lachish and Azekah

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2Ch 11:10And Zorah and Aijalon and Hebron, walled towns in Judah and Benjamin.

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2Ch 11:11And he made the walled towns strong, and he put captains in them and stores of food, oil, and wine.

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2Ch 11:12And 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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2Ch 11:13And 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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2Ch 11:14For 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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2Ch 11:15And 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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2Ch 11:16And 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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2Ch 11:17So 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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2Ch 11:18And 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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2Ch 11:19And she had sons by him, Jeush, Shemariah, and Zaham.

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2Ch 11:20And after her he took Maacah, the daughter of Absalom; and she had Abijah and Attai and Ziza and Shelomith by him.

2Ch 11:21

2Ch 11:21Maacah, 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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2Ch 11:22Rehoboam 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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2Ch 11:23And 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.

The Bible in Basic English was translated by Professor Samuel Henry Hooke (1874-1968)
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