1 Kings 12:23-25

New American Standard Bible 1995

²³ “Speak to Rehoboam the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all the house of Judah and Benjamin and to the ^(A)rest of the people, saying, ²⁴ ‘Thus says the Lord, “You must not go up and fight against your ^[a]relatives the sons of Israel; return every man to his house, ^(B)for this thing has come from Me.”’” So they listened to the word of the Lord, and returned and went their way according to the word of the Lord.

Jeroboam’s Idolatry

²⁵ Then ^(C)Jeroboam built Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and lived ^[b]there. And he went out from there and built ^(D)Penuel.