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Return every man to his house; for this thing is of me."'" So they listened to the words of Yahweh, and returned from going against Jeroboam.</p> <a name="5" id="5"></a><p class="hdg">Rehoboam Fortifies Judah<br /><p class="cross">(<a href="../1_kings/14.htm#21">1 Kings 14:21-24</a>)</p></p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/11-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Rehoboam lived in Jerusalem, and built cities for defense in Judah. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/11-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>He built Bethlehem, and Etam, and Tekoa, <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/11-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Beth Zur, and Soco, and Adullam, <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/11-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>and Gath, and Mareshah, and Ziph, <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/11-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>and Adoraim, and Lachish, and Azekah, <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/11-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>and Zorah, and Aijalon, and Hebron, which are in Judah and in Benjamin, fortified cities. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/11-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>He fortified the strongholds, and put captains in them, and stores of food, and oil and wine. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/11-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>In every city [he put] shields and spears, and made them exceeding strong. Judah and Benjamin belonged to him.</p> <p class="hdg">Priests and Levites Forsaken by Jeroboam</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/11-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>The priests and the Levites who were in all Israel resorted to him out of all their border.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/11-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>For the Levites left their suburbs and their possession, and came to Judah and Jerusalem: for Jeroboam and his sons cast them off, that they should not execute the priest's office to Yahweh; <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/11-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>and he appointed him priests for the high places, and for the male goats, and for the calves which he had made. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/11-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>After them, out of all the tribes of Israel, such as set their hearts to seek Yahweh, the God of Israel, came to Jerusalem to sacrifice to Yahweh, the God of their fathers. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/11-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>So they strengthened the kingdom of Judah, and made Rehoboam the son of Solomon strong, three years; for they walked three years in the way of David and Solomon.</p> <p class="hdg">Rehoboam's Family</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/11-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Rehoboam took him a wife, Mahalath the daughter of Jerimoth the son of David, [and of] Abihail the daughter of Eliab the son of Jesse; <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/11-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>and she bore him sons: Jeush, and Shemariah, and Zaham. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/11-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>After her he took Maacah the daughter of Absalom; and she bore him Abijah, and Attai, and Ziza, and Shelomith. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/11-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Rehoboam loved Maacah the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and his concubines: (for he took eighteen wives, and sixty concubines, and became the father of twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters.) <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/11-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Rehoboam appointed Abijah the son of Maacah to be chief, [even] the prince among his brothers; for [he was minded] to make him king. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/11-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>He dealt wisely, and dispersed of all his sons throughout all the lands of Judah and Benjamin, to every fortified city: and he gave them food in abundance. He sought [for them] many wives.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The World English Bible is a 1997 revision of the American Standard Version of the Holy Bible, first published in 1901. It is in the Public Domain. Please feel free to copy and distribute it freely. Thank you to Michael Paul Johnson for making this work available. 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