2 Chronicles 11:1

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And Rehoboam came to Jerusalem, and got together the men of Judah and Benjamin, a hundred and eighty thousand of his best fighting-men, to make war against Israel and get the kingdom back for Rehoboam.

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  • 1 Kgs 12:21-24 : 21 When Rehoboam came to Jerusalem, he got together all the men of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin, a hundred and eighty thousand of his best fighting-men, to make war against Israel and get the kingdom back for Rehoboam, the son of Solomon. 22 But the word of God came to Shemaiah, the man of God, saying, 23 Say to Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all the men of Judah and Benjamin and the rest of the people: 24 The Lord has said, You are not to go to war against your brothers, the children of Israel; go back, every man to his house, because this thing is my purpose. So they gave ear to the word of the Lord, and went back, as the Lord had said.
  • Ps 33:10 : 10 The Lord undoes the designs of the nations; he makes the thoughts of the peoples without effect.
  • Ps 33:16 : 16 A king's salvation is not in the power of his army; a strong man does not get free by his great strength.
  • Prov 21:30-31 : 30 Wisdom and knowledge and wise suggestions are of no use against the Lord. 31 The horse is made ready for the day of war, but power to overcome is from the Lord.

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  • 1 Kgs 12:20-24
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    96%

    20Now when all Israel had news that Jeroboam had come back, they sent for him to come before the meeting of the people, and made him king over Israel: not one of them was joined to the family of David but only the tribe of Judah.

    21When Rehoboam came to Jerusalem, he got together all the men of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin, a hundred and eighty thousand of his best fighting-men, to make war against Israel and get the kingdom back for Rehoboam, the son of Solomon.

    22But the word of God came to Shemaiah, the man of God, saying,

    23Say to Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all the men of Judah and Benjamin and the rest of the people:

    24The Lord has said, You are not to go to war against your brothers, the children of Israel; go back, every man to his house, because this thing is my purpose. So they gave ear to the word of the Lord, and went back, as the Lord had said.

  • 2 Chr 13:3
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    3And Abijah went out to the fight with an army of men of war, four hundred thousand of his best men; and Jeroboam put his forces in line against him, eight hundred thousand of his best men of war.

  • 2 Chr 11:2-5
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    2But the word of the Lord came to Shemaiah, the man of God, saying,

    3Say to Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all Israel in Judah and Benjamin,

    4The Lord has said, You are not to go to war against your brothers: let every man go back to his house, for this thing is my purpose. So they gave ear to the words of the Lord and were turned back from fighting against Jeroboam.

    5Now Rehoboam kept in Jerusalem, building walled towns in Judah.

  • 1 Kgs 12:1
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    1And Rehoboam went to Shechem, where all Israel had come together to make him king,

  • 1 Chr 21:5
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    5And Joab gave David the number of all the people; all the men of Israel, able to take up arms, were one million, one hundred thousand men; and those of Judah were four hundred and seventy thousand men, able to take up arms.

  • 2 Chr 14:8
    75%

    8And Asa had an army of three hundred thousand men of Judah armed with body-covers and spears, and two hundred and eighty thousand of Benjamin armed with body-covers and bows; all these were men of war.

  • 2 Chr 17:18
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    18And after him Jehozabad, and with him a hundred and eighty thousand trained for war.

  • 2 Chr 10:1
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    1And Rehoboam went to Shechem, where all Israel had come together to make him king.

  • 2 Sam 6:1
    74%

    1And David got together all the fighting-men of Israel to the number of thirty thousand;

  • 1 Kgs 12:3
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    3And all the men of Israel came to Rehoboam and said,

  • 1 Chr 12:37
    74%

    37From the other side of Jordan, there were a hundred and twenty thousand of the Reubenites and the Gadites and the men of the half-tribe of Manasseh, armed with every sort of instrument of war.

  • Judg 20:17
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    17And the men of Israel, other than Benjamin, were four hundred thousand in number, all armed with swords; they were all men of war.

  • 1 Sam 11:8
    73%

    8And he had them numbered in Bezek: the children of Israel were three hundred thousand, and the men of Judah thirty thousand.

  • 2 Chr 25:5
    73%

    5Then Amaziah got all Judah together and put them in order by their families, even all Judah and Benjamin, under captains of thousands and captains of hundreds: and he had those of twenty years old and over numbered, and they came to three hundred thousand of the best fighting-men, trained for war and in the use of the spear and the body-cover.

  • 2 Sam 24:9
    73%

    9And Joab gave the king the number of all the people: there were in Israel eight hundred thousand fighting men able to take up arms; and the men of Judah were five hundred thousand.

  • 2 Chr 10:3
    73%

    3And they sent for him; and Jeroboam and all Israel came to Rehoboam and said,

  • 2 Chr 13:7
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    7And certain foolish and good-for-nothing men were joined with him, and made themselves strong against Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, when he was young and untested and not able to keep them back.

  • 1 Chr 12:23-24
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    72%

    23These are the numbers of the chiefs of the armed men, ready for war, who came to David at Hebron, to give the kingdom of Saul into his hands, as the Lord had said.

    24There were six thousand, eight hundred spearmen of the children of Judah, armed for war;

  • 1 Chr 5:18
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    18There were forty-four thousand, seven hundred and sixty of the sons of Reuben and of the Gadites and of the half-tribe of Manasseh, all strong men, expert in the use of the body-cover, the sword, and the bow, and in the art of war, all able to take up arms.

  • Judg 20:2
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    2And the chiefs of the people, out of all the tribes of Israel, took their places in the meeting of the people of God, four hundred thousand footmen armed with swords.

  • 2 Chr 10:17
    72%

    17But Rehoboam was still king over those of the children of Israel who were living in the towns of Judah.

  • 2 Chr 13:17
    71%

    17And Abijah and his people put them to death with great destruction: five hundred thousand of the best of Israel were put to the sword.

  • 2 Chr 12:4
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    4And he took the walled towns of Judah, and came as far as Jerusalem.

  • 2 Sam 17:11
    71%

    11But my suggestion is that all Israel, from Dan as far as Beer-sheba, comes together to you, a great army like the sands of the sea in number; and that you yourself go out among them.

  • 1 Kgs 12:17
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    17(But Rehoboam was still king over those of the children of Israel who were living in the towns of Judah.)

  • 2 Chr 15:9
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    9And he got together all Judah and Benjamin and those of Ephraim and Manasseh and Simeon who were living with them; for numbers of them came to him out of Israel when they saw that the Lord his God was with him.

  • Judg 20:14-15
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    71%

    14And the children of Benjamin came together from all their towns to Gibeah, to go to war with the children of Israel.

    15And the children of Benjamin who came that day from the towns were twenty-six thousand men armed with swords, in addition to the people of Gibeah, numbering seven hundred of the best fighting-men,

  • 2 Chr 13:15
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    15And the men of Judah gave a loud cry; and at their cry, God put fear into Jeroboam and all Israel before Abijah and Judah.

  • 1 Sam 15:4
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    4And Saul sent for the people and had them numbered in Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen and ten thousand men of Judah.

  • 2 Chr 12:1
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    1Now when Rehoboam's position as king had been made certain, and he was strong, he gave up the law of the Lord, and all Israel with him.

  • 1 Kgs 14:30
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    30And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all their days.

  • 2 Chr 26:13
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    13And under their orders was a trained army of three hundred and seven thousand, five hundred, of great strength in war, helping the king against any who came against him.

  • 2 Chr 17:14-15
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    14This is the number of them, listed by their families, the captains of thousands of Judah: Adnah, the captain, and with him three hundred thousand men of war;

    15Second to him Jehohanan, the captain, and with him two hundred and eighty thousand;

  • 1 Kgs 12:12
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    12So all the people came to Rehoboam on the third day, as the king had given orders, saying, Come back to me the third day.

  • 2 Chr 12:11
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    11And whenever the king went into the house of the Lord, the armed men went with him taking the body-covers, and then took them back to their room.

  • 2 Chr 2:17
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    17Then Solomon took the number of all the men from strange lands who were living in Israel, as his father David had done; there were a hundred and fifty-three thousand, six hundred.

  • 1 Kgs 14:25
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    25Now in the fifth year of King Rehoboam, Shishak, king of Egypt, came up against Jerusalem;

  • 1 Chr 7:11
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    11All these were the sons of Jediael, by the heads of their families, seventeen thousand, two hundred men of war, able to go out with the army for war.

  • 1 Kgs 12:27
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    27If the people go up to make offerings in the house of the Lord at Jerusalem, their heart will be turned again to their lord, to Rehoboam, king of Judah; and they will put me to death and go back to Rehoboam, king of Judah.

  • 1 Chr 12:31
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    31And from the half-tribe of Manasseh, eighteen thousand, listed by name, came to make David king.