^19 (A)So Israel has been in rebellion against the house of David to this day.

^21 (A)When he had torn Israel from the house of David, ^(B)they made Jeroboam the son of Nebat king. And Jeroboam drove Israel from following the Lord ^(C)and made them commit great sin.

¹⁹ So Israel has been in rebellion against the house of David to this day.

⁶ and ^(A)then have fallen away, to restore them again to repentance, since ^(B)they are crucifying once again the Son of God to their own harm and holding him up to contempt.

^17 (A)The Lord will bring upon you and upon your people and upon your father's house such days as have not come since the day that ^(B)Ephraim departed from Judah—the king of Assyria!”

¹⁷ Abijah and his people struck them with great force, so there fell slain of Israel 500,000 chosen men.

⁵ Ought you not to know that the Lord God of Israel ^(A)gave the kingship over Israel forever to David and his sons by ^(B)a covenant of salt? ⁶ Yet Jeroboam the son of Nebat, a servant of Solomon the son of David, rose up ^(C)and rebelled against his lord, ⁷ and certain ^(D)worthless scoundrels^[a] gathered about him and defied Rehoboam the son of Solomon, when Rehoboam was ^(E)young and irresolute^[b] and could not withstand them.

^19 (A)But today you have rejected your God, who saves you from all your calamities and your distresses, and you have said to him, ‘Set a king over us.’ Now therefore ^(B)present yourselves before the Lord by your tribes and by your thousands.”

⁹ And Joshua set up^[a] twelve stones in the midst of the Jordan, ^(A)in the place where the feet of the priests bearing the ark of the covenant had stood; and they are there to this day.