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It was so, that as often as the king entered into the house of the LORD, the guard came and bore them, and brought them back into the guard-chamber.
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When he humbled himself, the wrath of the LORD turned from him, so as not to destroy him altogether: and moreover in Yehudah there were good things [found].
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So king Rechav`am strengthened himself in Yerushalayim, and reigned: for Rechav`am was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Yerushalayim, the city which the LORD had chosen out of all the tribes of Yisra'el, to put his name there: and his mother's name was Na`amah the `Ammonite.
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He did that which was evil, because he didn't set his heart to seek the LORD.
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Now the acts of Rechav`am, first and last, aren't they written in the histories of Shemayah the prophet and of `Iddo the seer, after the manner of genealogies? There were wars between Rechav`am and Yarov`am continually.
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Rechav`am slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David: and Aviyah his son reigned in his place.