Jehovah says: Do not wage war against your relatives. Everyone, go home. What has happened is my doing. So they obeyed the word of Jehovah. They turned back from their attack on Jeroboam.

Abram said to Lot: Let us not have any quarreling between you and me, or between your herdsmen and mine, for we are brothers.

Even though you planned evil against me, God planned good to come out of it. This was to keep many people alive, as he is doing now.

Then Abner called to Joab: Must the sword devour forever? Do you not understand it will be bitter to the end? How long before you command the people to return from chasing their brothers?

When Jeroboam was going out of Jerusalem, the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite came across him on the road. Ahijah was wearing a new robe. They were by themselves in the open country.

About sundown a cry went up from all parts of the army, saying: Let every man go back to his town and his country, for the king is dead.

The king refused to listen to the people because Jehovah was directing these events to carry out the promise he had made to Jeroboam, Nebat's son through Ahijah from Shiloh.

A man of God approached him and said: Your Majesty, Israel's army must not go with you. This is because Jehovah is not with Israel. He is not with these men from Ephraim.

The Israelites captured two hundred thousand women, boys, and girls from their relatives the Judeans. They also took a lot of goods from Judah and brought them to Samaria.

The counsel of Jehovah and the plans of his heart stand from generation to generation, forever.

They chose their own kings. I did not approve. They chose their own princes. Princes I did not know. They made idols with their own silver and gold. Because of this, they will be destroyed!

The next day he appeared to them while they were fighting. He wanted to unite them and said, 'You are brothers. Why do you wrong one another?'

I speak to shame you. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you? Not one who would be able to judge between his brothers?

You should continue to love one another as brothers.

Finally, all of you be like-minded, compassionate, brotherly, tenderhearted, and humble.

This is the message you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another!

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Thus saith the LORD, Ye shall not go up, nor fight against your brethren: return every man to his house: for this thing is done of me. And they obeyed the words of the LORD, and returned from going against Jeroboam.

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Against

Abram said to Lot: Let us not have any quarreling between you and me, or between your herdsmen and mine, for we are brothers.
Then Abner called to Joab: Must the sword devour forever? Do you not understand it will be bitter to the end? How long before you command the people to return from chasing their brothers?
The next day he appeared to them while they were fighting. He wanted to unite them and said, 'You are brothers. Why do you wrong one another?'
I speak to shame you. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you? Not one who would be able to judge between his brothers?
You should continue to love one another as brothers.
Finally, all of you be like-minded, compassionate, brotherly, tenderhearted, and humble.
This is the message you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another!

Return

When all Israel saw that the king refused to listen to them, the people answered the king: What share do we have in David's kingdom? We will not receive an inheritance from Jesse's son. Everyone to his own tent, Israel! Now look after your own house, David! So all Israel went home to their tents.
About sundown a cry went up from all parts of the army, saying: Let every man go back to his town and his country, for the king is dead.

For this thing

The king refused to listen to the people because Jehovah was directing these events to carry out the promise he had made to Jeroboam, Nebat's son through Ahijah from Shiloh.
Even though you planned evil against me, God planned good to come out of it. This was to keep many people alive, as he is doing now.
When Jeroboam was going out of Jerusalem, the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite came across him on the road. Ahijah was wearing a new robe. They were by themselves in the open country.
The counsel of Jehovah and the plans of his heart stand from generation to generation, forever.
They chose their own kings. I did not approve. They chose their own princes. Princes I did not know. They made idols with their own silver and gold. Because of this, they will be destroyed!

They obeyed

A man of God approached him and said: Your Majesty, Israel's army must not go with you. This is because Jehovah is not with Israel. He is not with these men from Ephraim.
A prophet of Jehovah named Oded was there. He went to meet the army coming home to Samaria. He said: Jehovah the God of your ancestors handed Judah over to you in his anger. You killed them in a rage that reaches up to heaven.
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