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"But the LORD said to my father David, 'Because it was in your heart to build a house for My name, you did well that it was in your heart.

'Nevertheless you shall not build the house, but your son who will be born to you, he shall build the house for My name.'

"But will God really dwell with mankind on the earth? Behold, heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain You; how much less this house which I have built!

"But if you turn away and abandon My statutes and My commandments which I have set before you, and go and serve other gods and worship them,

But Solomon did not make slaves from the sons of Israel for his work; for they were men of war, his chief captains and commanders of his chariots and his horsemen.

"But I did not believe their stories until I came and my own eyes saw it all. And behold, not even half of the greatness of your wisdom was reported to me. You have surpassed the report that I heard.

"Your father made our yoke hard; but now, lighten the hard labor imposed by your father and his heavy yoke which he put on us, and we will serve you."

But he ignored the advice of the elders which they had given him, and consulted with the young men who had grown up with him and served him.

The young men who had grown up with him spoke to him, saying, "This is what you should say to the people who spoke to you, saying: 'Your father made our yoke heavy, but you make it lighter for us!' You should speak this way to them: 'My little finger is thicker than my father's waist!

'Now then, my father loaded you with a heavy yoke; yet I will add to your yoke. My father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with scorpions!'"

He spoke to them according to the advice of the young men, saying, "My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to it; my father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with scorpions."

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

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

"But they will become his slaves, so that they may learn the difference between My service and the service of the kingdoms of the countries."

But he did evil because he did not set his heart to seek the LORD.

"But as for us, the LORD is our God, and we have not abandoned Him; and the sons of Aaron are ministering to the LORD as priests, and the Levites attend to their work.

"Every morning and evening they burn to the LORD burnt offerings and fragrant incense, and the showbread is set on the clean table, and the golden lampstand with its lamps is ready to light every evening; for we perform our duty to the LORD our God, but you have abandoned Him.

But Jeroboam had set an ambush to come from behind, so that Israel was in front of Judah and the ambush was behind them.

But Abijah became powerful, and he took fourteen wives for himself, and fathered twenty-two sons and sixteen daughters.

and he went out to meet Asa and said to him, "Listen to me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin: the LORD is with you when you are with Him. And if you seek Him, He will let you find Him; but if you abandon Him, He will abandon you.