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And Abia rose up from the mount Somoron, which is in mount Ephraim, and said, Hear ye, Jeroboam, and all Israel:
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not for you to know that the Lord God of Israel has given a king over Israel for ever to David, and to his sons, by a covenant of salt?
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But Jeroboam the of Nabat, the servant of Solomon of David, is risen up, and has revolted from his master:
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and there are gathered to him pestilent men, transgressors, and he has risen up against Roboam the of Solomon, while Roboam was young and fearful in heart, and he withstood him not.
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And now ye profess to resist the kingdom of the Lord in the hand of the sons of David; and ye a great multitude, and with you are golden calves, which Jeroboam made you for gods.
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Did ye not cast out the priests of the Lord, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and make to yourselves priests of the people of any land? whoever came to consecrate himself with a calf of the heard and seven rams, he forthwith became a priest to that which is no god.
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But we have not forsaken the Lord our God, and his priests, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, minister to the Lord; and in their daily courses
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they sacrifice to the Lord whole-burnt-offering, morning and evening, and compound incense, and the shewbread on the pure table; and the golden candlestick, and the lamps for burning, to light in the evening: for we keep the charge of the Lord God of our fathers; but ye have forsaken him.
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And, behold, the Lord and his priests are with us at our head, and the signal trumpets to sound an alarm over us. Children of Israel, fight not against the Lord God of our fathers; for ye shall not prosper.