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Then Pharaoh said unto him, But what hast thou lacked with me that, behold, thou seekest to go to thy own land? And he answered, Nothing; however, let me go anyway.
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And God stirred him up
another adversary, Rezon, the son of Eliadah, who fled from his lord Hadadezer, king of Zobah.
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And he gathered men unto him and became captain over a band, when David slew those
of Zobah; and they went to Damascus and dwelt there, and they made him king in Damascus.
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And he was an adversary to Israel all the days of Solomon, besides the evil that Hadad
did, and he abhorred Israel and reigned over Syria.
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Likewise Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, an Ephrathite of Zereda, Solomon’s slave, whose mother’s name
was Zeruah, a widow woman, lifted up his hand against the king.
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And this
was why he lifted up
his hand against the king: Solomon in building Millo, closed the breach of the city of David, his father.
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And the man Jeroboam
was a mighty man of valour, and Solomon, seeing that the young man was industrious, he made him ruler over all the charge of the house of Joseph.
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And it came to pass at that time, when Jeroboam went out of Jerusalem, that the prophet Ahijah, the Shilonite, found him in the way; and he
was covered with a new garment; and the two
were alone in the field.
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And Ahijah caught the new garment that
was on him and rent it
in twelve pieces;
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and he said to Jeroboam, Take ten pieces for thyself, for thus hath said the LORD God of Israel, Behold, I rend the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon and will give ten tribes to thee;
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and he shall have one tribe for my slave David’s sake and for Jerusalem’s sake, the city which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel