¹⁷ (But Rehoboam was still king over those of the children of Israel who were living in the towns of Judah.)

¹³ Still I will not take all the kingdom from him; but I will give one tribe to your son, because of my servant David, and because of Jerusalem, the town of my selection.

³⁶ And one tribe I will give to his son, so that David my servant may have a light for ever burning before me in Jerusalem, the town which I have made mine to put my name there.

¹⁷ But Rehoboam was still king over those of the children of Israel who were living in the towns of Judah.

¹³ And the priests and Levites who were in all Israel came together to him from every part of their country.

¹⁴ For the Levites gave up their living-places and their property, and came to Judah and Jerusalem; for Jeroboam and his sons had sent them away, not letting them be priests to the Lord;

¹⁵ And he himself made priests for the high places, and for the images of he-goats and oxen which he had made.

¹⁶ And after them, from all the tribes of Israel, all those whose hearts were fixed and true to the Lord, the God of Israel, came to Jerusalem to make offerings to the Lord, the God of their fathers.

¹⁷ So they went on increasing the power of the kingdom of Judah, and made Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, strong for three years; and for three years they went in the ways of David and Solomon.