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1So KingRehoboamstrengthened himself in Jerusalem and reigned. NowRehoboam was forty-one*yearsold when he began to reign, and he reignedseventeen*years in Jerusalem, the citywhich the LORD had chosen from all the tribes of Israel, to put His namethere. And his mother'sname was Naamah the Ammonitess.
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As often as the king entered the house of the LORD , the guards came and carried them and then brought them back into the guards' room.
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And when he humbled himself, the anger of the LORD turned away from him, so as not to destroy him completely; and also conditions were good in Judah.
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So King Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem and reigned. Now Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD had chosen from all the tribes of Israel, to put His name there. And his mother's name was Naamah the Ammonitess.
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He did evil because he did not set his heart to seek the LORD .
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Now the acts of Rehoboam, from first to last, are they not written in the records of Shemaiah the prophet and of Iddo the seer, according to genealogical enrollment? And there were wars between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually .