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Israel at the time of King Solomon

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Figure 2.8: A map showing Israel’s Kingdom at the time of Solomon

Division of the Kingdom was brought about by the failure of king
Owing to the sins and failures of Rehoboam to comply with the request of
Solomon, the glory of Israel’s kingdom the people of the North, who asked him
deteriorated and was divided between to lessen the burden that his father laid
the North and the South when his son upon them (1 Kings 12:1-16). The Sins
Rehoboam came to the throne and of Solomon also divided the kingdom.
failed to comply with the wishes of the This means that the division was a
people of the Northern tribes (1 Kings punishment for sin (1 Kings 11:1-40).
12:23). The division of the kingdom Intolerable injustice, especially forced

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