11 When Rehoboam arrived in Jerusalem, he mustered Judah and Benjamin – a hundred and eighty thousand able young men – to go to war against Israel and to regain the kingdom for Rehoboam.

But this word of the Lord came to Shemaiah the man of God: ‘Say to Rehoboam son of Solomon king of Judah and to all Israel in Judah and Benjamin,

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