| | The Early Kings of Israel: A Kingdom Divided (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) |
 | | He had told Jeroboam, the future king of the northern 10 tribes of Israel: "Behold, I will tear the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon and will give ten tribes to you (but he shall have one tribe for the sake of My servant David, and for the sake of Jerusalem. |
 | | Around 930 B.C. the united kingdom was divided, with Jeroboam governing the northern 10 tribes and Rehoboam, Solomon's son, governing the two southern ones, Judah and Benjamin. |
 | | (As priests, a good portion of the tribe of Levi eventually either resettled in or remained with the southern kingdom.) As both of their wicked reigns came to an end--and according to God's prophecies of punishment for disobedience--ominous clouds began to appear over Israel's northern horizon. |
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