Then all the citizens of Shechem and Beth Millo(A) gathered beside the great tree(B) at the pillar in Shechem to crown Abimelek king.

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David then took up residence in the fortress and called it the City of David. He built up the area around it, from the terraces[a](A) inward.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 5:9 Or the Millo

20 His officials(A) conspired against him and assassinated(B) him at Beth Millo,(C) on the road down to Silla.

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Golden Calves at Bethel and Dan

25 Then Jeroboam fortified Shechem(A) in the hill country of Ephraim and lived there. From there he went out and built up Peniel.[a](B)

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 12:25 Hebrew Penuel, a variant of Peniel

20 When all the Israelites heard that Jeroboam had returned, they sent and called him to the assembly and made him king over all Israel. Only the tribe of Judah remained loyal to the house of David.(A)

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Israel Rebels Against Rehoboam(A)

12 Rehoboam went to Shechem,(B) for all Israel had gone there to make him king.

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26 And Joshua recorded(A) these things in the Book of the Law of God.(B) Then he took a large stone(C) and set it up there under the oak(D) near the holy place of the Lord.

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