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2 Chronicles 12:14
And he did evil because his heart was not true to the Lord.
2 Chronicles 12:14 · Bible in Basic English
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2 Chronicles 12:14 in other translations
And he did evil, because he prepared not his heart to seek the LORD.
And Rehoboam did evil because he did not set his heart to seek the LORD.
He did that which was evil, because he didn’t set his heart to seek the LORD.
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In context
11 And whenever the king went into the house of the Lord, the armed men went with him taking the body-covers, and then took them back to their room.
12 And when he made himself low, the wrath of the Lord was turned back from him, and complete destruction did not come on him, for there was still some good in Judah.
13 So King Rehoboam made himself strong in Jerusalem and was ruling there. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he became king, and he was ruling for seventeen years in Jerusalem, the town which the Lord had made his out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there; and his mother's name was Naamah, an Ammonite woman.
14 And he did evil because his heart was not true to the Lord.
15 Now the acts of Rehoboam, first and last, are they not recorded in the words of Shemaiah the prophet and Iddo the seer? And there were wars between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all their days.
16 And Rehoboam went to rest with his fathers, and was put into the earth in the town of David; and Abijah his son became king in his place.
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