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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Tanach: 2_Chronicles 11: 12 And in every city he put shields and spears, and made them exceeding strong. And Judah and Benjamin adhered to him.
2_Chronicles 11: 13 And the priests and the Levites that were in all Israel presented themselves to him out of all their border.
2_Chronicles 11: 14 For the Levites left their open land and their possession, and came to Judah and Jerusalem; for Jeroboam and his sons cast them off, that they should not execute the priest's office unto the LORD;
2_Chronicles 11: 15 and he appointed him priests for the high places, and for the satyrs, and for the calves which he had made.
2_Chronicles 11: 16 And after them, out of all the tribes of Israel, such as set their hearts to seek the LORD, the God of Israel, came to Jerusalem to sacrifice unto the LORD, the God of their fathers.
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.
2_Chronicles 11: 18 And 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;
2_Chronicles 11: 19 and she bore him sons: Jeush, and Shemariah, and Zaham.
2_Chronicles 11: 20 And after her he took Maacah the daughter of Absalom; and she bore him Abijah, and Attai, and Ziza, and Shelomith.
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