1 Kings 12:1
And Rehoboam went to Shechem, where all Israel had come together to make him king,
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1 Kings 12:1
And Rehoboam went to Shechem, where all Israel had come together to make him king,
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1 Kings 12:2
And, hearing of it, Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, who was still in Egypt, where he had gone in flight from Solomon, and was living there, came back to his town Zeredah, in the hill-country of Ephraim;
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1 Kings 12:3
And all the men of Israel came to Rehoboam and said,
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1 Kings 12:4
Your father put a hard yoke on us: if you will make the conditions under which your father kept us down less cruel, and the weight of the yoke he put on us less hard, then we will be your servants.
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1 Kings 12:25
Then Jeroboam made the town of Shechem in the hill-country of Ephraim a strong place, and was living there; and from there he went out and did the same to Penuel.
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1 Kings 12:5
And he said to them, Go away for three days and then come back to me again. So the people went away.
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