1Ki 12:25 Cross References
1 Kings 12:25
25: Jeroboam then built up the city of Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and it became his capital. Later he went and built up the town of Peniel.
Judges 8:17
- He also knocked down the tower of Peniel and killed all the men in the town.
Judges 8:8
- From there Gideon went up to Peniel and asked for food, but he got the same answer.
Genesis 32:30
- Jacob named the place Peniel--"face of God"--for he said, "I have seen God face to face, yet my life has been spared."
- The sun rose as he left Peniel, and he was limping because of his hip.
Judges 9:45
- The battle went on all day before Abimelech finally captured the city. He killed the people, leveled the city, and scattered salt all over the ground.
- When the people who lived in the tower of Shechem heard what had happened, they took refuge within the walls of the temple of Baal-berith.
- Someone reported to Abimelech that the people were gathered together in the temple,
- so he led his forces to Mount Zalmon. He took an ax and chopped some branches from a tree, and he put them on his shoulder. "Quick, do as I have done!" he told his men.
- So each of them cut down some branches, following Abimelech's example. They piled the branches against the walls of the temple and set them on fire. So all the people who had lived in the tower of Shechem died, about a thousand men and women.
Judges 9:1
- One day Gideon's son Abimelech went to Shechem to visit his mother's brothers. He said to them and to the rest of his mother's family,
1 Kings 12:1
- Rehoboam went to Shechem, where all Israel had gathered to make him king.
1 Kings 16:24
- Then Omri bought the hill now known as Samaria from its owner, Shemer, for 150 pounds of silver. He built a city on it and called the city Samaria in honor of Shemer.
1 Kings 9:17
- So Solomon rebuilt the city of Gezer.) He also built up the towns of Lower Beth-horon,
- Baalath, and Tamar in the desert, within his land.
1 Kings 15:17
- King Baasha of Israel invaded Judah and fortified Ramah in order to prevent anyone from entering or leaving King Asa's territory in Judah.
2 Chronicles 11:5
- Rehoboam remained in Jerusalem and fortified various cities for the defense of Judah.
- He built up Bethlehem, Etam, Tekoa,
- Beth-zur, Soco, Adullam,
- Gath, Mareshah, Ziph,
- Adoraim, Lachish, Azekah,
1 Kings 9:15
- This is the account of the forced labor that Solomon conscripted to build the LORD's Temple, the royal palace, the Millo, the wall of Jerusalem, and the cities of Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer.