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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36 And to his son I will give one tribe, that (A)My servant David may always have a lamp before Me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen for Myself, to put My name there.

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14 For the Levites left (A)their common-lands and their possessions and came to Judah and Jerusalem, for (B)Jeroboam and his sons had rejected them from serving as priests to the Lord. 15 (C)Then he appointed for himself priests for the [a]high places, for (D)the demons, and (E)the calf idols which he had made. 16 (F)And [b]after the Levites left, those from all the tribes of Israel, such as set their heart to seek the Lord God of Israel, (G)came to Jerusalem to sacrifice to the Lord God of their fathers. 17 So they (H)strengthened the kingdom of Judah, and made Rehoboam the son of Solomon strong for three years, because they walked in the way of David and Solomon for three years.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 11:15 Places for pagan worship
  2. 2 Chronicles 11:16 Lit. after them

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