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Thus saith Hashem, Ye shall not go up, nor make war against your achim. Shuvu (return) every ish to his bais, for this thing is done from Me. And they obeyed the divrei Hashem, and returned back from going against Yarov’am.
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But the Devar Hashem came to Shemayah the Ish HaElohim, saying,
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Speak unto Rechav’am ben Sh’lomo Melech Yehudah, and to kol Yisroel in Yehudah and Binyamin, saying,
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Thus saith Hashem, Ye shall not go up, nor make war against your achim. Shuvu (return) every ish to his bais, for this thing is done from Me. And they obeyed the divrei Hashem, and returned back from going against Yarov’am.
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And Rechav’am dwelt in Yerushalayim, and built arim lematzor (cities for defense) in Yehudah.
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He built even Beit-Lechem, and Eitam, and Tekoa,
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