BRAGADAYJAH 1023
Rehoboam forbidden to war against Israel.
After that it came to pass that when Israel heard that Jeroboam
had come up again, they sent and called him unto the congregation and made him
king over all Israel, so that there was none that followed the house of David
other than the tribe of Judah. And when
Rehoboam had come to Jerusalem he assembled all the house of Judah with the
tribe of Benjamin, a hundred and eighty thousand men who were warriors, to
fight against Israel to return the kingdom to Rehoboam the son of Solomon. But the word of God came to Shemaiah, the man
of God, telling him to tell Rehoboam and the house of Judah and Benjamin not to
go to battle against their brethren the people of Israel, but to return every
man to his house; and Rehoboam and the houses of Judah and Benjamin listened to
the voice of the prophet of the Lord.
After that Jeroboam went and built Shechem in mount Ephraim
and lived there for a while; and from there went out again and built Penuel.
Then said Jeroboam in his heart, “Now shall the kingdom return to the house of David,
if the people go up to Jerusalem to do sacrifice in the house of the Lord. For
then their heart will turn again unto their lord Rehoboam king of Judah; and they
will kill me and return to the king of Judah.” So king Jeroboam took counsel
and decided to make two calves of gold, and he told the people that it was too
much to have to go to Jerusalem to worship.
Therefore, he persuaded them that the gods he made were the gods that brought
them up out of the land of Egypt. And he set one in Bethel and the other in
Dan. And this thing became a sin; for
the people went and worshipped before the golden images.
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