24 ‘This is what the Lord says: You are not to march up and fight against your brothers, the Israelites. Each of you return home, for this situation is from me.’”(A)

So they listened to the word of the Lord and went back according to the word of the Lord.

Jeroboam’s Idolatry

25 Jeroboam built Shechem(B) in the hill country of Ephraim and lived there. From there he went out and built Penuel.(C) 26 Jeroboam said to himself, “The kingdom might now return to the house of David.(D)

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