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1 Kings 12:26
“Jeroboam said in his heart, "Now the kingdom will return to the house of David.”
1 Kings 12:26 in the King James Version
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Verse in context — 1 Kings 12
Thus says Yahweh, "You shall not go up, nor fight against your brothers, the children of Israel. Everyone return to his house; for this thing is of me."'" So they listened to the word of Yahweh, and returned and went their way, according to the word of Yahweh.
Then Jeroboam built Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and lived in it; and he went out from there, and built Penuel.
Jeroboam said in his heart, "Now the kingdom will return to the house of David.
If this people goes up to offer sacrifices in the house of Yahweh at Jerusalem, then the heart of this people will turn again to their lord, even to Rehoboam king of Judah; and they will kill me, and return to Rehoboam king of Judah.
Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold; and he said to them, "It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem. Look and see your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt!
Cross references for 1 Kings 12:26
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- 1 Kings 11:38
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- Luke 7:39
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- John 12:10-11
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- John 11:47-50
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- John 12:19
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- Mark 2:6-8
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- Isaiah 7:9
and the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah's son. If you will not believe, surely you shall not be established.
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Solomon’s reign, the temple’s construction, and the kingdom’s division.
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