Then Jeroboam built Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim and lived there. And from there he went out and built Penuel.
He also pulled down the tower of Penuel and killed the men of the city.
From there he went up to Penuel and asked the same from them, but the men of Penuel gave the same response as the men of
So Jacob named the place Peniel, saying, “Indeed, I have seen God face to face, and yet my life was spared.”
And all that day Abimelech fought against the city until he had captured it and killed its people. Then he demolished th
Rehoboam lived in Jerusalem, and he built up cities for defense in Judah.
This is the account of the forced labor that King Solomon imposed to build the house of the LORD, his own palace, the su
Then Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had gone there to make him king.
He bought the hill of Samaria from Shemer for two talents of silver and built a city there, calling it Samaria after the
So Solomon rebuilt Gezer, Lower Beth-horon,
Baasha king of Israel went to war against Judah and fortified Ramah to prevent anyone from leaving or entering the terri
Now Abimelech son of Jerubbaal went to his mother’s brothers at Shechem and said to them and to all the clan of his moth