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So says Jehovah, You shall not go up, nor fight with your brothers. Each return to his house, for this thing has come from Me. And they heard the Words of Jehovah, and turned back from going against Jeroboam.

And he put in every city bucklers and spears, and made them exceedingly strong. And Judah and Benjamin were his.

For the Levites had abandoned their pasture land and their property. And they came to Judah and to Jerusalem; for Jeroboam and his sons had cast them out from acting as priests to Jehovah.

And Rehoboam loved Maachah the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and his concubines (for he had taken eighteen wives, and sixty concubines; and he fathered twenty eight sons and sixty daughters).

And Rehoboam appointed Abijah the son of Maachah the head, as ruler among his brothers, in order to cause him to reign.

And he had understanding, and spread out all his sons to all the lands of Judah and Benjamin, to all the cities of defense, and gave them provision in abundance. And he demanded a multitude of wives.

But they shall become his servants, and they shall know My service, and the service of the kingdoms of the lands.

And King Rehoboam made himself strong in Jerusalem, and reigned. For Rehoboam was a son of forty one years when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city thatJehovah had chosen to put His name there,out of all the tribes of Israel. And his mother's name was Naamah the Ammonitess.

And he did the evil, for he had not resolved in his heart to seek Jehovah.

And Rehoboam lay with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David. And his son Abijah reigned in his place.

He reigned three years in Jerusalem. And the name of his mother was Michaiah the daughter of Uriel, from Gibeah. And there was war between Abijah and Jeroboam.

Do you not know that Jehovah the God of Israel has given the kingdom to David over Israel forever, to him and to his sons, a covenant of salt?

And Jeroboam the son of Nebat, the servant of Solomon, the son of David has risen up and rebelled against his lord.

And, behold, God is with us at our head, and His priests, and the trumpets, the signal to sound for battle against you. O sons of Israel, do not fight with Jehovah, the God of your fathers, for you shall not prosper.

And Abijah and his people struck them with a great blow, and five hundred thousand chosen men of Israel fell slain.

And the rest of the acts of Abijah, and his ways, and his words, are written in the inquiry of the prophet Iddo.

And Abijah lay with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David. And his son Asa reigned in his place. In his days the land was quiet ten years.

And Asa did the good and the right in the eyes of Jehovah his God.

And Asa called to Jehovah his God, and said, O Jehovah, it is nothing to You to help between the mighty and him with no strength. Help us, O Jehovah our God; for we rest on You, and in Your name we come against this host. O Jehovah, You areour God. Do not let man hold out against You.

And Asa and the people with him pursued them even to Gerar. And all of the Ethiopians fell, for there was not one left alive to them; because they had broken before Jehovah, and before His army. And they carried away very much plunder.