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- 2 Chronicles 8:7
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As for all the people who remained of the Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites (these people were not Israelites)—
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- 2 Chronicles 8:8
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their descendants who remained in the land, those whom the Israelites had not destroyed—Solomon conscripted these people to be forced laborers, as they are to this day.
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- 2 Chronicles 8:9
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But Solomon did not consign any of the Israelites to slave labor, because they were his men of war, the leaders of his captains, and the commanders of his chariots and cavalry.
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- 2 Chronicles 8:10
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They were also the chief officers for King Solomon: 250 supervisors.
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- 2 Chronicles 8:11
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Solomon brought the daughter of Pharaoh up from the City of David to the palace he had built for her. For he said, “My wife must not live in the house of David king of Israel, because the places the ark of the LORD has entered are holy.”
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- 2 Chronicles 8:12
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At that time Solomon offered burnt offerings to the LORD on the altar of the LORD he had built in front of the portico.
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- 2 Chronicles 9:1
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Now when the queen of Sheba heard about the fame of Solomon, she came to test him with difficult questions. She arrived in Jerusalem with a very large caravan—with camels bearing spices, gold in abundance, and precious stones. And she came to Solomon and spoke with him about all that was on her mind.
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- 2 Chronicles 9:2
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And Solomon answered all her questions; nothing was too difficult for him to explain.
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- 2 Chronicles 9:3
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When the queen of Sheba saw the wisdom of Solomon, the palace he had built,
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- 2 Chronicles 9:4
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the food at his table, the seating of his servants, the service and attire of his attendants, the attire of his cupbearers, and the burnt offerings he presented at the house of the LORD, it took her breath away.
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- 2 Chronicles 9:5
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She said to the king, “The report I heard in my own country about your words and wisdom is true.
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- 2 Chronicles 9:6
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But I did not believe the reports until I came and saw with my own eyes. Indeed, not half of the greatness of your wisdom was told to me. You have far exceeded the report I heard.
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- 2 Chronicles 9:8
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Blessed be the LORD your God, who has delighted in you to set you on His throne to be king for the LORD your God. Because your God loved Israel enough to establish them forever, He has made you king over them to carry out justice and righteousness.”
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- 2 Chronicles 9:9
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Then she gave the king 120 talents of gold, a great quantity of spices, and precious stones. There had never been such spices as those the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon.
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- 2 Chronicles 9:10
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(The servants of Hiram and of Solomon who brought gold from Ophir also brought algum wood and precious stones.
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- 2 Chronicles 9:12
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King Solomon gave the queen of Sheba all she desired—whatever she asked—far more than she had brought the king. Then she left and returned to her own country, along with her servants.
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- 2 Chronicles 9:13
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The weight of gold that came to Solomon each year was 666 talents,
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- 2 Chronicles 9:23
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All the kings of the earth sought an audience with Solomon to hear the wisdom that God had put in his heart.
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- 2 Chronicles 9:27
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The king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar as abundant as sycamore in the foothills.
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- 2 Chronicles 10:2
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When Jeroboam son of Nebat heard about this, he returned from Egypt, where he had fled from King Solomon.
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- 2 Chronicles 10:4
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“Your father put a heavy yoke on us. But now you must lighten the burden of your father’s service and the heavy yoke he put on us, and we will serve you.”
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- 2 Chronicles 10:6
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Then King Rehoboam consulted with the elders who had served his father Solomon during his lifetime. “How do you advise me to respond to these people?” he asked.
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- 2 Chronicles 10:8
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But Rehoboam rejected the advice of the elders; instead, he consulted the young men who had grown up with him and served him.
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- 2 Chronicles 10:9
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He asked them, “What message do you advise that we send back to these people who have spoken to me, saying, ‘Lighten the yoke your father put on us’?”
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- 2 Chronicles 10:10
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The young men who had grown up with him replied, “This is how you should answer these people who said to you, ‘Your father made our yoke heavy, but you must make it lighter.’ This is what you should tell them: ‘My little finger is thicker than my father’s waist!
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- 2 Chronicles 10:12
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After three days, Jeroboam and all the people returned to Rehoboam, since the king had said, “Come back to me on the third day.”
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- 2 Chronicles 10:15
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So the king did not listen to the people, and indeed this turn of events was from God, in order that the LORD might fulfill the word that He had spoken through Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam son of Nebat.
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- 2 Chronicles 10:18
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Then King Rehoboam sent out Hadoram, who was in charge of the forced labor, but the Israelites stoned him to death. And King Rehoboam mounted his chariot in haste and escaped to Jerusalem.
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- 2 Chronicles 11:10
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Zorah, Aijalon, and Hebron, the fortified cities in Judah and Benjamin.
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- 2 Chronicles 11:13
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Moreover, the priests and Levites from all their districts throughout Israel stood with Rehoboam.
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- 2 Chronicles 11:15
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And Jeroboam appointed his own priests for the high places and for the goat demons and calf idols he had made.
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- 2 Chronicles 12:3
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with 1,200 chariots, 60,000 horsemen, and countless troops who came with him out of Egypt—Libyans, Sukkites, and Cushites.
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- 2 Chronicles 12:4
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He captured the fortified cities of Judah and came as far as Jerusalem.
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- 2 Chronicles 12:5
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Then Shemaiah the prophet came to Rehoboam and the leaders of Judah who had gathered at Jerusalem because of Shishak, and he said to them, “This is what the LORD says: ‘You have forsaken Me; therefore, I have forsaken you into the hand of Shishak.’”
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- 2 Chronicles 12:9
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So King Shishak of Egypt attacked Jerusalem and seized the treasures of the house of the LORD and of the royal palace. He took everything, including the gold shields that Solomon had made.
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- 2 Chronicles 12:13
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Thus King Rehoboam established himself in Jerusalem and reigned. He was forty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city the LORD had chosen from all the tribes of Israel in which to put His Name. His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonite.
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- 2 Chronicles 13:4
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Then Abijah stood on Mount Zemaraim in the hill country of Ephraim and said, “Hear me, O Jeroboam and all Israel!
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- 2 Chronicles 13:8
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And now you think you can resist the kingdom of the LORD, which is in the hands of David’s descendants. You are indeed a vast army, and you have with you the golden calves that Jeroboam made for you as gods.
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- 2 Chronicles 14:13
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Then Asa and his army pursued them as far as Gerar. The Cushites fell and could not recover, for they were crushed before the LORD and His army. So the people of Judah carried off a great amount of plunder
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- 2 Chronicles 15:8
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When Asa heard these words and the prophecy of Azariah son of Oded the prophet, he took courage and removed the detestable idols from the whole land of Judah and Benjamin and from the cities he had captured in the hill country of Ephraim. He then restored the altar of the LORD that was in front of the portico of the LORD’s temple.
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- 2 Chronicles 15:13
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And whoever would not seek the LORD, the God of Israel, would be put to death, whether young or old, man or woman.
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- 2 Chronicles 15:16
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King Asa also removed his grandmother Maacah from her position as queen mother because she had made a detestable Asherah pole. Asa chopped down the pole, crushed it, and burned it in the Kidron Valley.
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- 2 Chronicles 16:4
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And Ben-hadad listened to King Asa and sent the commanders of his armies against the cities of Israel, conquering Ijon, Dan, Abel-maim, and all the store cities of Naphtali.
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- 2 Chronicles 16:6
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Then King Asa brought all the men of Judah, and they carried away the stones of Ramah and the timbers Baasha had used for building. And with these materials he built up Geba and Mizpah.
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- 2 Chronicles 16:14
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And he was buried in the tomb that he had cut out for himself in the City of David. They laid him on a bier that was full of spices and various blended perfumes; then they made a great fire in his honor.
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- 2 Chronicles 17:2
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He stationed troops in every fortified city of Judah and put garrisons in the land of Judah and in the cities of Ephraim that his father Asa had captured.
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- 2 Chronicles 17:10
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And the dread of the LORD fell upon all the kingdoms of the lands that surrounded Judah, so that they did not make war against Jehoshaphat.
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- 2 Chronicles 17:19
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These were the men who served the king, besides those he stationed in the fortified cities throughout Judah.
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- 2 Chronicles 18:2
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And some years later he went down to visit Ahab in Samaria, where Ahab sacrificed many sheep and cattle for him and the people with him and urged him to march up to Ramoth-gilead.
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- 2 Chronicles 18:12
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Then the messenger who had gone to call Micaiah instructed him, “Behold, with one accord the words of the prophets are favorable to the king. So please let your words be like theirs, and speak favorably.”
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