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2 Chronicles 10:1-2
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
2 Chronicles 10:1-2
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
II. The Post-Solomonic Monarchy of Judah
Chapter 10
Division of the Kingdom. 1 (A)Rehoboam went to Shechem, where all Israel[a] had come to make him king. 2 When Jeroboam, son of Nebat, heard about it, he was in Egypt where he had fled from King Solomon; and he returned from Egypt.
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- 10:1 All Israel: as in the source (1 Kgs 12:1), this term designates the northern tribes, as distinct from Judah and Benjamin. Elsewhere the Chronicler, writing on his own, speaks comprehensively of “those Israelites who lived in the cities of Judah” (10:17), and “all the Israelites [lit., all Israel] in Judah and Benjamin” (11:3).
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