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12 Shields and spears were placed in armories in every city as a further safety measure. For only Judah and Benjamin remained loyal to him.

13-14 However, the priests and Levites from the other tribes now abandoned their homes and moved to Judah and Jerusalem, for King Jeroboam had fired them, telling them to stop being priests of the Lord.

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