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Text -- 2 Chronicles 11:10-23 (NET)
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11:10 Zorah , Aijalon , and Hebron . These were the fortified cities in Judah and Benjamin .
11:11 He fortified these cities and placed officers in them, as well as storehouses of food , olive oil , and wine .
11:12 In each city there were shields and spears ; he strongly fortified them. Judah and Benjamin belonged to him.
11:13 The priests and Levites who lived throughout Israel supported him, no matter where they resided .
11:14 The Levites even left their pasturelands and their property behind and came to Judah and Jerusalem , for Jeroboam and his sons prohibited them from serving as the Lord’s priests .
11:15 Jeroboam appointed his own priests to serve at the worship centers and to lead in the worship of the goat idols and calf idols he had made .
11:16 Those among all the Israelite tribes who were determined to worship the Lord God of Israel followed them to Jerusalem to sacrifice to the Lord God of their ancestors .
11:17 They supported the kingdom of Judah and were loyal to Rehoboam son of Solomon for three years ; they followed the edicts of David and Solomon for three years .
11:18 Rehoboam married Mahalath the daughter of David’s son Jerimoth and of Abihail , the daughter of Jesse’s son Eliab .
11:19 She bore him sons named Jeush , Shemariah , and Zaham .
11:20 He later married Maacah the daughter of Absalom . She bore to him Abijah , Attai , Ziza , and Shelomith .
11:21 Rehoboam loved Maacah daughter of Absalom more than his other wives and concubines . He had eighteen wives and sixty concubines ; he fathered twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters .
11:22 Rehoboam appointed Abijah son of Maacah as the leader over his brothers , for he intended to name him his successor .
11:23 He wisely placed some of his many sons throughout the regions of Judah and Benjamin in the various fortified cities . He supplied them with abundant provisions and acquired many wives for them.
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NET Notes: 2Ch 11:13 Heb “and the priests and the Levites who were in all Israel supported him from all their territory.”
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NET Notes: 2Ch 11:18 The words “and of” are supplied in the translation for clarification and for stylistic reasons.
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NET Notes: 2Ch 11:21 Concubines were slave women in ancient Near Eastern societies who were the legal property of their master, but who could have legitimate sexual relati...
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NET Notes: 2Ch 11:22 Heb “and Rehoboam appointed for a head Abijah son of Maacah for ruler among his brothers, indeed to make him king.”
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