2 Chronicles Chapter 11 Back Next{11:1} When Rehoboam had come to
Jerusalem, he assembled the house of
Judah and
Benjamin, one hundred eighty thousand chosen men, who were warriors, to fight against
Israel, to bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam.
{11:2} But the word of Yahweh came to Shemaiah the man of God, saying,
{11:3} "Speak to Rehoboam the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all Israel in Judah and Benjamin, saying,
{11:4} 'Thus says Yahweh, "You shall not go up, nor fight against your
brothers! 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.
{11:5} Rehoboam lived in Jerusalem, and built cities for defense in Judah.
{11:6} He built
Bethlehem, and
Etam, and Tekoa,
{11:7}
Beth Zur, and Soco, and
Adullam,
{11:8} and
Gath, and
Mareshah, and Ziph,
{11:9} and
Adoraim, and
Lachish, and Azekah,
{11:10} and Zorah, and
Aijalon, and
Hebron, which are in Judah and in Benjamin, fortified cities.
{11:11} He fortified the strongholds, and put
captains in them, and stores of food, and oil and wine.
{11:12} He put shields and spears in every city, and made them exceeding strong. Judah and Benjamin belonged to him.
{11:13} The priests and the
Levites who were in all Israel resorted to him out of all their border.
{11:14} 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;
{11:15} and he appointed him priests for the
high places, and for the male
goats, and for the calves which he had made.
{11:16} 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.
{11:17} 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.
{11:18} 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;
{11:19} and she bore him sons:
Jeush, and Shemariah, and Zaham.
{11:20} After her he took
Maacah the daughter of
Absalom; and she bore him
Abijah, and Attai, and Ziza, and Shelomith.
{11:21} 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.)
{11:22} Rehoboam appointed Abijah the son of Maacah to be chief, the prince among his brothers; for he intended to make him king.
{11:23} 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.
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