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1 Kings 12:24-26
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1 Kings 12:24-26
International Standard Version
24 ‘This is what the Lord says: “You are not to fight or even approach your fellow Israelis in battle. Every soldier is to return to his own home, because this development comes from me.”’” So they listened to what the Lord had to say and returned home,[a] just as the Lord had directed.
Jeroboam’s Idolatry
25 Later on, Jeroboam fortified Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim and lived there. He also expanded from there and built Penuel. 26 Jeroboam was thinking to himself, “The kingdom is about to return to David’s control.[b]
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- 1 Kings 12:24 The Heb. lacks home
- 1 Kings 12:26 Lit. house
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