1 Kings 12:26

KJV1611 – Modern English

And Jeroboam said in his heart, Now the kingdom shall return to the house of David.

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  • 1 Sam 27:1 : 1 And David said in his heart, I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul. There is nothing better for me than that I should quickly escape into the land of the Philistines; then Saul will despair of me, to seek me any longer in any territory of Israel. Thus I will escape out of his hand.
  • 1 Kgs 11:38 : 38 And it shall be, if you will listen to all that I command you, and will walk in my ways, and do what is right in my sight, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as David my servant did; that I will be with you, and build you a sure house, as I built for David, and will give Israel to you.
  • 2 Chr 20:20 : 20 And they rose early in the morning and went forth into the wilderness of Tekoa. And as they went forth, Jehoshaphat stood and said, Hear me, O Judah and you inhabitants of Jerusalem: Believe in the LORD your God, and you shall be established; believe His prophets, and you shall prosper.
  • Ps 14:1 : 1 The fool has said in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt, they have done abominable deeds, there is none who does good.
  • Isa 7:9 : 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.
  • Jer 38:18-21 : 18 But if you will not go forth to the king of Babylon's princes, then this city shall be given into the hand of the Chaldeans, and they shall burn it with fire, and you shall not escape out of their hand. 19 And Zedekiah the king said to Jeremiah, I am afraid of the Jews who have fallen to the Chaldeans, lest they deliver me into their hand, and they mock me. 20 But Jeremiah said, They shall not deliver you. Obey, I beg you, the voice of the LORD, which I speak to you: so it shall be well with you, and your soul shall live. 21 But if you refuse to go forth, this is the word that the LORD has shown me:
  • Mark 2:6-8 : 6 But certain of the scribes were sitting there and reasoning in their hearts, 7 Why does this man speak blasphemies like this? Who can forgive sins but God only? 8 And immediately when Jesus perceived in his spirit that they reasoned within themselves, he said to them, Why do you reason about these things in your hearts?
  • Luke 7:39 : 39 Now when the Pharisee who had invited him saw it, he spoke within himself, saying, This man, if he were a prophet, would have known who and what sort of woman this is who touches him: for she is a sinner.
  • John 11:47-50 : 47 Then the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered a council and said, What shall we do? for this man does many miracles. 48 If we let him alone like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and nation. 49 And one of them, named Caiaphas, being high priest that year, said to them, You know nothing at all, 50 Nor do you consider that it is better for us that one man should die for the people, and not that the whole nation should perish.
  • John 12:10-11 : 10 But the chief priests resolved that they might also put Lazarus to death, 11 because on account of him many of the Jews went away and believed in Jesus.
  • John 12:19 : 19 The Pharisees therefore said among themselves, Do you see that you are accomplishing nothing? Look, the world has gone after him.
  • Acts 4:16-17 : 16 Saying, What shall we do to these men? For indeed a notable miracle has been done by them is evident to all who dwell in Jerusalem, and we cannot deny it. 17 But so that it spreads no further among the people, let us severely threaten them, that from now on they speak to no man in this name.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 Kgs 12:27-28
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    27If this people go up to offer sacrifices in the house of the LORD at Jerusalem, then the heart of this people shall turn again to their lord, even to Rehoboam king of Judah, and they shall kill me, and return to Rehoboam king of Judah.

    28Therefore the king took counsel and made two calves of gold, and said to them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem; behold your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.

  • 1 Kgs 12:19-21
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    19So Israel rebelled against the house of David to this day.

    20And it came to pass, when all Israel heard that Jeroboam had come again, they sent and called him to the congregation, and made him king over all Israel; there was none that followed the house of David, but the tribe of Judah only.

    21And when Rehoboam came to Jerusalem, he assembled all the house of Judah with the tribe of Benjamin, a hundred and eighty thousand chosen men, who were warriors, to fight against the house of Israel, to bring the kingdom back to Rehoboam the son of Solomon.

  • 1 Kgs 12:1-3
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    1And Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had come to Shechem to make him king.

    2And it happened, when Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who was still in Egypt, heard of it (for he had fled from the presence of King Solomon, and Jeroboam dwelt in Egypt),

    3that they sent and called him. And Jeroboam and all the assembly of Israel came and spoke to Rehoboam, saying,

  • 2 Chr 10:1-3
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    1And Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had come to Shechem to make him king.

    2And it came to pass, when Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who was in Egypt, where he had fled from the presence of King Solomon, heard it, that Jeroboam returned from Egypt.

    3And they sent and called him. So Jeroboam and all Israel came and spoke to Rehoboam, saying,

  • 1 Kgs 14:14
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    14Moreover the LORD shall raise up a king over Israel, who shall cut off the house of Jeroboam that day: but what? even now.

  • 1 Kgs 13:32-34
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    32For the saying which he cried by the word of the LORD against the altar in Bethel, and against all the houses of the high places which are in the cities of Samaria, shall surely come to pass.

    33After this, Jeroboam did not turn from his evil way, but made again from among all the people priests of the high places: whoever desired, he consecrated him, and he became one of the priests of the high places.

    34And this thing became sin to the house of Jeroboam, to cut it off and to destroy it from off the face of the earth.

  • 2 Chr 11:3-4
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    3Speak to Rehoboam the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all Israel in Judah and Benjamin, saying,

    4Thus says the LORD, You shall not go up nor fight against your brethren. Return every man to his house, for this thing is of me. And they obeyed the words of the LORD and returned from going against Jeroboam.

  • 1 Kgs 12:15-16
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    15Therefore the king did not listen to the people, for the cause was from the LORD, that he might perform His word, which the LORD spoke by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.

    16So when all Israel saw that the king did not listen to them, the people answered the king, saying, What portion have we in David? We have no inheritance in the son of Jesse. To your tents, O Israel! Now see to your own house, David. So Israel departed to their tents.

  • 1 Kgs 12:23-25
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    23Speak to Rehoboam the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all the house of Judah and Benjamin, and to the remnant of the people, saying,

    24Thus says the LORD, You shall not go up nor fight against your brethren the children of Israel. Return every man to his house, for this thing is from Me. Therefore they listened to the word of the LORD, and returned to depart, according to the word of the LORD.

    25Then Jeroboam built Shechem in the mount of Ephraim and lived there, and went out from there and built Penuel.

  • 2 Chr 13:8
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    8And now you think to withstand the kingdom of the LORD in the hand of the sons of David; and you are a great multitude, and with you are golden calves, which Jeroboam made for you to be gods.

  • 2 Kgs 17:21
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    21For he ripped Israel from the house of David; they made Jeroboam the son of Nebat king, and Jeroboam drove Israel from following the LORD, and made them commit a great sin.

  • 2 Chr 13:6
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    6Yet Jeroboam the son of Nebat, the servant of Solomon the son of David, has risen up and has rebelled against his lord.

  • 1 Kgs 11:31-32
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    31And he said to Jeroboam, Take ten pieces: for thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, Behold, I will tear the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon and will give ten tribes to you.

    32(But he shall have one tribe for the sake of my servant David, and for Jerusalem's sake, the city which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel.)

  • 2 Chr 10:15-16
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    15So the king did not listen to the people, for the cause was of God, that the LORD might fulfill his word, which he spoke by the hand of Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.

    16And when all Israel saw that the king would not listen to them, the people answered the king, saying, What part have we in David? And we have no inheritance in the son of Jesse: every man to your tents, O Israel; and now, David, see to your own house. So all Israel went to their tents.

  • 1 Kgs 14:7-8
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    7Go, tell Jeroboam, Thus says the LORD God of Israel, Because I exalted you from among the people, and made you prince over my people Israel,

    8And tore the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave it to you: yet you have not been like my servant David, who kept my commandments, and who followed me with all his heart, to do only that which was right in my eyes;

  • 1 Kgs 11:39-40
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    39And I will for this afflict the offspring of David, but not forever.

    40Solomon therefore sought to kill Jeroboam. And Jeroboam arose, and fled into Egypt, to Shishak king of Egypt, and was in Egypt until the death of Solomon.

  • 1 Kgs 14:2
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    2And Jeroboam said to his wife, Arise, I ask you, and disguise yourself, so that you are not known to be the wife of Jeroboam; and go to Shiloh: behold, there is Ahijah the prophet, who told me that I should be king over this people.

  • 2 Sam 3:10
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    10To transfer the kingdom from the house of Saul, and to set up the throne of David over Israel and over Judah, from Dan even to Beersheba.

  • 1 Kgs 11:28
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    28And the man Jeroboam was a mighty man of valor: and Solomon seeing the young man that he was industrious, he made him ruler over all the work of the house of Joseph.

  • 2 Chr 10:19
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    19And Israel rebelled against the house of David to this day.

  • 1 Kgs 14:12
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    12Arise therefore, go to your own house: and when your feet enter into the city, the child shall die.

  • 2 Kgs 14:27-28
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    27And the LORD did not say that He would blot out the name of Israel from under heaven, but He saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash.

    28Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, and all that he did, and his might, how he warred, and how he recovered Damascus and Hamath, which belonged to Judah, for Israel, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

  • 1 Kgs 11:26
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    26And Jeroboam the son of Nebat, an Ephrathite of Zereda, Solomon's servant, whose mother's name was Zeruah, a widow, even he raised his hand against the king.

  • 2 Chr 6:7
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    7Now it was in the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of the LORD God of Israel.

  • 1 Kgs 14:19
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    19And the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he warred, and how he reigned, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.

  • 1 Kgs 14:16
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    16And he shall give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, who sinned, and who made Israel to sin.

  • 1 Kgs 12:12
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    12So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day, as the king had appointed, saying, Come to me again the third day.

  • 2 Chr 12:12
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    12And when he humbled himself, the wrath of the LORD turned from him, that he would not destroy him completely; and also conditions improved in Judah.

  • 1 Kgs 2:15
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    15And he said, You know that the kingdom was mine, and that all Israel had their eyes on me, that I should reign; however, the kingdom has turned and has become my brother's, for it was his from the Lord.

  • 1 Kgs 11:35
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    35But I will take the kingdom out of his son's hand, and will give it to you, even ten tribes.

  • 2 Chr 10:12
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    12So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam on the third day, as the king had said, Come again to me on the third day.

  • 1 Kgs 12:31
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    31And he made a house of high places and made priests from all sorts of people, who were not of the sons of Levi.