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11 And he will strengthen the fortifications, and he will give in them leaders and treasures of food, and oil, and wine. 12 And in every city and city, shields and spears, and he will strengthen them very greatly, and there will be to him Judah and Benjamin. 13 And the priests and the Levites which were in all Israel stood forth to him from all their bound. 14 For the Levites forsook their areas and their possession, and they will come to Judah and to Jerusalem: for Jeroboam and his sons rejected them from being priest to Jehovah: 15 And he will set up to him priests for the heights, for the wood-demons, and for the calves which he made. 16 And after them from all the tribes of Israel those giving their heart to seek Jehovah God of Israel came to Jerusalem to sacrifice to Jehovah the God of their fathers. 17 And they will strengthen the kingdom of Judah, and make firm Rehoboam son of Solomon, for three years: for they went in the way of David and Solomon for three years. 18 And Rehoboam will take to him a wife, Mahalath, daughter of Jerimoth, son of David, and Abihail daughter of Eliab son of Jesse; 19 And she will bear to him sons, Jeush and Shemariah, and Zaham. 20 And after her he took Maacah, daughter of Absalom; and she will bear to him Abijah and Attai, and Ziza and Shelomith. 21 And Rehoboam will love Maacah the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and his concubines: for he took eighteen wives and sixty concubines; and he will beget twenty and eight sons, and sixty daughters. 22 And Rehoboam will set up for head, Abijah son of Maacah for leader over his brethren: in order to make him king. 23 And he will understand, and he will spread from all his sons to all the lands of Judah and Benjamin, to all the cities of fortifications: and he will give to them food for multitude. And he will ask for a multitude of wives. 2 Chronicles 11:11-23, Smith's Literal Translation. Public domain.
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