1 KINGS 12:21 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“And when Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he assembled all the house of Judah, with the tribe of Benjamin, an hundred and fourscore thousand chosen men, which were warriors, to fight against the house of Israel, to bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam the son of Solomon.”
When Rehoboam came to Jerusalem, he assembled all the house of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin, a hundred and eighty thousand chosen warriors, to fight against the house of Israel, to restore the kingdom to Rehoboam the son of Solomon — Rehoboam's military mobilization represents an attempt to reunify the kingdom by force. The specific number "a hundred and eighty thousand chosen warriors" signals military readiness. The phrase לְהִלָּחֵם־עִם־בֵּית יִשְׂרָאֵל (lehillahem im-beit Yisrael, to fight against the house of Israel) frames the conflict as civil war. Yet the historian will show that this military solution is forestalled by divine intervention.
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