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and spoke to them after the counsel of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add thereto: my father chastised you with whips, but I [ergänzt: will chastise you] with scorpions.

בַּשּׁוֹטִ֔ים (בַּ) ba. “with <the>”בָּעֲקְרַבִּֽים׃ (בָּ) ba. “with <the>”

So the king didn't listen to the people; for it was brought about of God, that Yahweh might establish his word, which he spoke by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.

בְּיַד֙ (בְּ) be. “by”

When all Israel saw that the king didn't listen to them, the people answered the king, saying, What portion have we in David? neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse: every man to your tents, Israel: now see to your own house, David. So all Israel departed to their tents.

בְּדָוִ֜יד (בְּ) be. “in”בְּבֶן־ (בְּ) be. “in”

But as for the children of Israel who lived in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them.

בְּעָרֵ֣י (בְּ) be. “in”

Then king Rehoboam sent Hadoram, who was over the men subject to forced labor; and the children of Israel stoned him to death with stones. King Rehoboam made speed to get him up to his chariot, to flee to Jerusalem.

ב֧וֹ (ב֧) v “<in>”בַּמֶּרְכָּבָ֔ה (בַּ) ba. “in the”

So Israel rebelled against the house of David to this day.

בְּבֵ֣ית (בְּ) be. “against”

Speak to Rehoboam the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all Israel in Judah and Benjamin, saying,

בִּיהוּדָ֥ה (בִּ) bi. “in”

Rehoboam lived in Jerusalem, and built cities for defense in Judah.

בִּירוּשָׁלִָ֑ם (בִּ) bi. “in”בִּיהוּדָֽה׃ (בִּ) bi. “in”

and Zorah, and Aijalon, and Hebron, which are in Judah and in Benjamin, fortified cities.

בִּיהוּדָ֖ה (בִּ) bi. “[were] in”וּבְבִנְיָמִ֑ן (בְ) ve. “in”

He fortified the strongholds, and put captains in them, and stores of food, and oil and wine.

בָּהֶם֙ (בָּ) ba. “in”

In every city [ergänzt: he put] shields and spears, and made them exceeding strong. Judah and Benjamin belonged to him.

וּבְכָל־ (בְ) ve. “[were] in”

The priests and the Levites who were in all Israel resorted to him out of all their border.

בְּכָל־ (בְּ) be. “[were] in”

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.

בְּדֶ֧רֶךְ (בְּ) be. “in”

Rehoboam appointed Abijah the son of Maacah to be chief, [ergänzt: even] the prince among his brothers; for [ergänzt: he was minded] to make him king.

בְּאֶחָ֑יו (בְּ) be. “among”

It happened in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, because they had trespassed against Yahweh,

בַּשָּׁנָ֤ה (בַּ) ba. “in the”בַּיהוָֽה׃ (בַּ) ba. “against”

with twelve hundred chariots, and sixty thousand horsemen. The people were without number who came with him out of Egypt: the Lubim, the Sukkiim, and the Ethiopians.

בְּאֶ֤לֶף (בְּ) be. “with”וּבְשִׁשִּׁ֥ים (בְ) ve. “with”

Now Shemaiah the prophet came to Rehoboam, and to the princes of Judah, who were gathered together to Jerusalem because of Shishak, and said to them, Thus says Yahweh, You have forsaken me, therefore have I also left you in the hand of Shishak.

בְּיַד־ (בְּ) be. “in”

When Yahweh saw that they humbled themselves, the word of Yahweh came to Shemaiah, saying, They have humbled themselves: I will not destroy them; but I will grant them some deliverance, and my wrath shall not be poured out on Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak.

וּבִרְא֤וֹת (בִ) vi “when”בִּירוּשָׁלִַ֖ם (בִּ) bi. “on”בְּיַד־ (בְּ) be. “by”

When he humbled himself, the wrath of Yahweh turned from him, so as not to destroy him altogether: and moreover in Judah there were good things [ergänzt: found].

וּבְהִכָּֽנְע֗וֹ (בְ) ve. “when”בִּֽיהוּדָ֔ה (בִּֽ) bi. “in”

So king Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem, and reigned: for Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which Yahweh had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there: and his mother's name was Naamah the Ammonitess.

בִּירוּשָׁלִַ֖ם (בִּ) bi. “in”בְּמָלְכ֜וֹ (בְּ) be. “when”בִּֽירוּשָׁלִַ֗ם (בִּֽ) bi. “in”

Now the acts of Rehoboam, first and last, aren't they written in the histories of Shemaiah the prophet and of Iddo the seer, after the manner of genealogies? There were wars between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually.

בְּדִבְרֵ֨י (בְּ) be. “in”

Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David: and Abijah his son reigned in his place.

בְּעִ֣יר (בְּ) be. “in”

In the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam began Abijah to reign over Judah.

בִּשְׁנַ֛ת (בִּ) bi “in”

Three years reigned he in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Micaiah the daughter of Uriel of Gibeah. There was war between Abijah and Jeroboam.

בִּיר֣וּשָׁלִַ֔ם (בִּ) bi. “in”

Abijah joined battle with an army of valiant men of war, even four hundred thousand chosen men: and Jeroboam set the battle in array against him with eight hundred thousand chosen men, who were mighty men of valor.

בְּחַ֙יִל֙ (בְּ) be. “with”בִּשְׁמוֹנֶ֨ה (בִּ) bi “with”