1 Kings 11:32
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32 (but he shall have one tribe for the sake of My servant David, and for the sake of Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel),
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1 Kings 11:13
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13 (A)However I will not tear away the whole kingdom; I will give (B)one tribe to your son (C)for the sake of My servant David, and for the sake of Jerusalem (D)which I have chosen.”
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1 Kings 14:21
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Rehoboam Reigns in Judah(A)
21 And Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. (B)Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he became king. He reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city (C)which the Lord had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put His name there. (D)His mother’s name was Naamah, an Ammonitess.
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1 Kings 12:20-21
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20 Now it came to pass when all Israel heard that Jeroboam had come back, they sent for him and called him to the congregation, and made him king over all (A)Israel. There was none who followed the house of David, but the tribe of Judah (B)only.
21 And when (C)Rehoboam came to Jerusalem, he assembled all the house of Judah with the tribe of (D)Benjamin, one hundred and eighty thousand chosen men who were warriors, to fight against the house of Israel, that he might restore the kingdom to Rehoboam the son of Solomon.
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