2 Chronicles 11:1-2
English Standard Version
Rehoboam Secures His Kingdom
11 (A)When Rehoboam came to Jerusalem, he assembled the house of Judah and Benjamin, 180,000 chosen warriors, to fight against Israel, to restore the kingdom to Rehoboam. 2 But the word of the Lord came to (B)Shemaiah the man of God:
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2 Chronicles 11:1-2
1599 Geneva Bible
11 4 Rehoboam is forbidden to fight against Jeroboam. 5 Cities which he built. 21 He hath eighteen wives, and threescore concubines, and by them eight and twenty sons, and threescore daughters.
1 And (A)when Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he gathered of the house of Judah and [a]Benjamin ninescore thousand chosen men of war to fight against [b]Israel, and to bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam.
2 But the word of the Lord came to Shemaiah the man of God, saying,
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- 2 Chronicles 11:1 That is, the half tribe of Benjamin: for the other half was gone after Jeroboam.
- 2 Chronicles 11:1 Meaning the ten tribes which rebelled.
2 Chronicles 11:1-2
King James Version
11 And when Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he gathered of the house of Judah and Benjamin an hundred and fourscore thousand chosen men, which were warriors, to fight against Israel, that he might bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam.
2 But the word of the Lord came to Shemaiah the man of God, saying,
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