When he had finished speaking all these words, the ground that was under them split open,

So do this: Dismiss the kings from their command, and replace them with military commanders.

Because God fought for them, they killed many of the enemy. They dispossessed the Hagrites and lived in their land until the exile.

King Rehoboam made bronze shields to replace them and assigned them to the officers of the royal guard who protected the entrance to the royal palace.

The men whose names are listed came during the time of King Hezekiah of Judah and attacked the Hamites’ settlements, as well as the Meunites they discovered there, and they wiped them out to this very day. They dispossessed them, for they found pasture for their sheep there.