OLD TESTAMENT

1 Kings 12:2

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When Jeroboam the son of Nebat heard of it (for he was yet in Egypt, where he had fled from the presence of King Solomon, and Jeroboam lived in Egypt;

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Verse 2. Hearing of. Hebrew “It (the assembly) and Jeroboam dwelt in Egypt.” Bible.—But in 2 Paral. 10:2, we find he returned. It is probable that both texts agreed in the days of S. Jerom; as the same letters, if read in a different manner, may have both meanings. Calmet.—Septuagint have also “returned.” Bible.

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