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So king Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem, and reigned: for Rehoboam was one and forty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. And his mother's name was Naamah an Ammonitess.
And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
This was the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes?
When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.
For my mouth shall speak truth; and wickedness is an abomination to my lips.
They were amazed, they answered no more: they left off speaking.
They are all plain to him that understandeth, and right to them that find knowledge.
And they beat down the cities, and on every good piece of land cast every man his stone, and filled it; and they stopped all the wells of water, and felled all the good trees: only in Kir-haraseth left they the stones thereof; howbeit the slingers went about it, and smote it.
And the holy garments of Aaron shall be his sons' after him, to be anointed therein, and to be consecrated in them.
And all the days of Enos were nine hundred and five years: and he died.
And they made two rings of gold, and put them on the two ends of the breastplate, upon the border of it, which was on the side of the ephod inward.
They shall not be ashamed in the evil time: and in the days of famine they shall be satisfied.
Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people, even for salvation with thine anointed; thou woundedst the head out of the house of the wicked, by discovering the foundation unto the neck. Selah.
The sacrifice of the wicked is abomination: how much more, when he bringeth it with a wicked mind?
Now I pray to God that ye do no evil; not that we should appear approved, but that ye should do that which is honest, though we be as reprobates.
For thou hast made of a city an heap; of a defenced city a ruin: a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built.
And another came, saying, Lord, behold, here is thy pound, which I have kept laid up in a napkin:
Then said his sister to Pharaoh's daughter, Shall I go and call to thee a nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for thee?
I say unto you, Though he will not rise and give him, because he is his friend, yet because of his importunity he will rise and give him as many as he needeth.
And he said, Woe unto you also, ye lawyers! for ye lade men with burdens grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves touch not the burdens with one of your fingers.
I will pay my vows unto the LORD now in the presence of all his people.
There is difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married careth for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.
A blessing, if ye obey the commandments of the LORD your God, which I command you this day:
So they strengthened the kingdom of Judah, and made Rehoboam the son of Solomon strong, three years: for three years they walked in the way of David and Solomon.
