1 Kings 12:24-26

Holman Christian Standard Bible

²⁴ ‘This is what the Lord says: You are not to march up and fight against your brothers, the Israelites. Each of you must return home, for I have done this.’”^(A)

So they listened to what the Lord said and went back as He had told them.

Jeroboam’s Idolatry

²⁵ Jeroboam built Shechem^(B) in the hill country of Ephraim and lived there. From there he went out and built Penuel.^{(C) 26} Jeroboam said to himself, “The way things are going now, the kingdom might return to the house of David.^(D)