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Let each return to his house, for this thing has been from Me”; and they hear the words of YHWH, and turn back from going against Jeroboam.<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/11-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And Rehoboam dwells in Jerusalem, and builds cities for a bulwark in Judah, <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/11-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>indeed, he builds Beth-Lehem, and Etam, and Tekoa, <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/11-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>and Beth-Zur, and Shocho, and Adullam, <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/11-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>and Gath, and Mareshah, and Ziph, <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/11-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>and Adoraim, and Lachish, and Azekah, <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/11-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>and Zorah, and Aijalon, and Hebron, that [are] in Judah and in Benjamin, cities of bulwarks. <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/11-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And he strengthens the bulwarks, and puts leaders in them, and treasures of food, and oil, and wine, <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/11-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>and in each and every city [he puts] bucklers and spears, and strengthens them very greatly; and he has Judah and Benjamin.<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/11-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And the priests and the Levites that [are] in all Israel have stationed themselves by him, out of all their border,<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/11-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>for the Levites have left their outskirts and their possession, and they come to Judah and to Jerusalem, for Jeroboam and his sons have cast them off from acting as priests for YHWH, <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/11-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>and he establishes for himself priests for high places, and for goat [idols] and for calf [idols] that he made. <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/11-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And after them, out of all the tribes of Israel, those giving their heart to seek YHWH, God of Israel, have come to Jerusalem to sacrifice to YHWH, God of their father. <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/11-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And they strengthen the kingdom of Judah, and strengthen Rehoboam son of Solomon, for three years, because they walked in the way of David and Solomon for three years.<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/11-18.htm"><b></b></a></span>And Rehoboam takes a wife for himself, Mahalath, child of Jerimoth son of David, [and of] Abigail daughter of Eliab son of Jesse. <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/11-19.htm"><b></b></a></span>And she bears sons to him: Jeush, and Shamaria, and Zaham. <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/11-20.htm"><b></b></a></span>And after her he has taken Maachah daughter of Absalom, and she bears to him Abijah, and Attai, and Ziza, and Shelomith. <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/11-21.htm"><b></b></a></span>And Rehoboam loves Maachah daughter of Absalom above all his wives and his concubines—for he has taken eighteen wives and sixty concubines—and he begets twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters. <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/11-22.htm"><b></b></a></span>And Rehoboam appoints Abijah son of Maachah for head, for leader among his brothers, for to cause him to reign. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/11-23.htm"><b></b></a></span>And he has understanding, and disperses from all his sons to all lands of Judah and Benjamin, to all cities of the bulwarks, and gives provision in abundance to them; and he asks for a multitude of wives [for them].<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Literal Standard Version<br>Copyright © 2022 by Covenant Press. 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