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But I will take the nation from his son, and will give to you ten family groups.

I will bring trouble to the children of David for this, but not forever.'"

So Solomon tried to put Jeroboam to death. But Jeroboam got up and ran to Egypt, to Shishak king of Egypt. And he stayed in Egypt until Solomon died.

But Rehoboam turned away from the wise words the leaders gave him. Instead he spoke with the young men who grew up with him and stood by him.

My father gave you a heavy load. I will add to your load. My father punished you with whips. But I will punish you with scorpions.'"

He spoke to them as he had been told by the young men. He said, "My father made your load heavy. I will add to your load. My father punished you with whips. But I will punish you with scorpions."

But as for the people of Israel who lived in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam ruled over them.

But the Word of God came to Shemaiah the man of God, saying,

When King Jeroboam heard the words the man of God cried against the altar in Bethel, he put out his hand from the altar, saying, "Take hold of him!" But his hand which he put out against him dried up. So he could not pull it back to himself.

But the man of God said to the king, "I would not go with you if you were to give me half your house. I would not eat bread or drink water in this place.

And he said to him, "I am a man who speaks for God like you. An angel spoke to me by the word of the Lord, saying, ‘Bring him back with you to your house, that he may eat bread and drink water.'" But he lied to him.

I tore the nation away from the family of David and gave it to you. But you have not been like My servant David. He kept My Laws and followed Me with all his heart. He did only what was right in My eyes.

But you have done more sinful things than all who were before you. You have gone and made for yourself other gods and objects to look like gods to make Me angry. You have put Me behind your back.

But the Lord will send a king over Israel who will destroy the family of Jeroboam this day and from now on.

But the Lord his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem because of David. He gave him a son to rule after him and to keep Jerusalem strong.

The high places were not taken away. But Asa was faithful to the Lord with all his heart for all his days.

Now the rest of all the acts of Asa and all his strength and all he did and the cities he built, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? But when he was old he had a disease in his feet.

"I took you from the dust and gave you honor. I made you leader over My people Israel. But you have walked in the way of Jeroboam and have made My people Israel sin. You have made Me angry with their sins.

But the people who followed Omri won over the people who followed Tibni the son of Ginath. Tibni died and Omri became king.

But after a while, the river dried up, because there was no rain in the land.