he dealt: 2 Chronicles 10:8-15; Luke 16:8
dispersed: 2 Chronicles 21:3; Genesis 25:6; 1 Kings 1:5-6
every fenced city: 2 Chronicles 11:11
many wives: Heb. a multitude of wives, 2 Chronicles 11:21
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2 Chronicles 11:23
2 Chronicles 11:23
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Levites, and all the devout and pious Israelites, to him, even all that
were true to their God and their religion.
1. Jeroboam cast…