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2 Chronicles 11:17

“So they strengthened the kingdom of Judah, and made Rehoboam the son of Solomon strong, three years; for they walked three years in the way of David and Solomon.”

Verse in context — 2 Chronicles 11

15

and he appointed him priests for the high places, and for the male goats, and for the calves which he had made.

16

After them, out of all the tribes of Israel, such as set their hearts to seek Yahweh, the God of Israel, came to Jerusalem to sacrifice to Yahweh, the God of their fathers.

17

So they strengthened the kingdom of Judah, and made Rehoboam the son of Solomon strong, three years; for they walked three years in the way of David and Solomon.

18

Rehoboam took him a wife, Mahalath the daughter of Jerimoth the son of David, [and of] Abihail the daughter of Eliab the son of Jesse;

19

and she bore him sons: Jeush, and Shemariah, and Zaham.

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Solomon’s reign and Judah’s history until the Babylonian exile.

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